Author: Angella Nakato

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. […]

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 […]

On 20th July 2022, the office of the Dean Faculty of Medicine organized a training session for all its heads of departments, administrators, committee chairpersons and their deputies where they were equipped with leadership and management skills. The facilitator of the day was former staff of MUST and Vice Chancellor of Uganda Martyrs University Prof: […]

First Mile Community Health Program, a project under the Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine (FoM), Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) trained health Facility Leaders in-charges in leadership and management skills. The two-day Leadership and Management Continuing Medical Education (CME) was held in Mbarara city at the silverback hotel involving 20 health […]

Over 300 Refugees received free health services During Community Nursing led Multidisciplinary Placement Outreach programme under the first   mile project 2.0 Ubuntu Project The team was led by Dr. Grace Nambozi who acknowledged the support from the First mile Project 2.0, the University administration and the Office of the Dean Faculty of Medicine. These sponsored […]

The Executive Secretary of Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) Professor Adipala Ekwamu visited Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) to oversee the progress of the collaboration, the University has with RUFORUM. During his visit, Prof. Adipala met the University leaders that included: Deputy Vice Chancellor Prof.  Tushaboomwe-Kazoba, Faculty Deans, Directors […]

A delegation of 7 members from Western University and Joint Clinical Research centre visited Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) to strengthen the partnership in Science and Technology led research. The team from the University of Western Ontario (UWO) branded as Western University included Asst. Prof.  Abbas Jessani (UWO), Dr. Melanie Katsivo (Associate Director […]

Epicentre Mbarara Research centre a research hub situated within Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) organized a 2-day TB Dissemination workshop to address TB diagnostics and therapeutics gaps in low-income countries. This was held at hotel triangle Mbarara from June 30 July 1, 2022. Delegates present were from the Ministry of Health, World Health […]