Dr. Edwin Nuwagira (MMED) received a 2021 American Thoracic Society (ATS) Community Diversity Grant for his project “Improving Pulmonary Function After Tuberculosis in Uganda (IMPACT-U).” IMPACT-U is an implementation research study whose primary goal is to improve lung (pulmonary) function and health-related quality of life lived by TB survivors in Uganda. As a result of […]
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Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Medicine participated in the East African medical quiz competition and games held in Kisumu City Kenya. This took place from 21/07/2022- 24/07/2022. The comptetion was hosted by the Medical Students Association of Kenya (MSAKE) under the theme: “MEDICAL EDUCATION AS A TRANSLATIONAL TOOL IN REDUCING THE BURDEN […]
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This year, Mbarara University is blessed to have two of her alumni selected for the Mandela Washington Fellowship and Alumni Enrichment Institute (AEI) Programs 2022 and these include Mr. Ronard Tushabe and Ms. Joana Ankunda. Mr. Ronard Tushabe is among 25 Mandela Washington Fellows from 17 African countries hosted at University of Notre Dame in […]
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On 25th July 2022, the Department of Ophthalmology unveiled the Glaucoma Screening and Treatment project for South Western Uganda that will end in December 2024. The 2 billion UGX project funded by the Christian Blind Mission (CBM) aims at contributing towards the health system strengthening to provide glaucoma screening and care in the South Western […]
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On July 21, 2022, a delegation from the National Information Technology Authority (NITA) visited Mbarara University of Science and Technology to check on the achievements the institution has registered since it was connected National Backbone Infrastructure. NITA was also launching the Regional Communications Infrastructural Program (RCIP) at an event which was held at Igongo Culture […]
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A team of 40 undergraduate medical students and 4 Masters of Public Health (MPH) postgraduate trainees from the Faculty of Medicine (FoM), Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) with support from First Mile Community Health Program, Department of Community Health (DoCH) conducted a three-day emergency response outreach Bunagana town council, Kisoro district, Southwestern Uganda. […]
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The MUST-IUC UCoBS (University as a Facilitator for Community-Based Sustainable Solutions to Demographic Challenges in South-Western Uganda) seeks to support 09 PhD and 02 Masters candidates in various disciplines of environment; climate change and food production; renewable energy; sexual and reproductive health, and innovative business entrepreneurship for youth employability. Please read detailed Call for PhD […]
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Mbarara University of Science and Technology, PHARMBIOTRAC Incubation Center in partnership with CamTech Uganda has yet admitted a new cohort II of incubatees totalling to 15 teams of start-up companies (that’s 15 new innovations). This adds to the already 15 teams of innovations that enrolled in cohort I last year doubling the number of innovations […]
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