Category: News & Events

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]