This Institution's name is Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MakCHS)

This Institution's type is Academic or research institution
This Institution's location is Kampala, Uganda  |  Established 1922

Snapshot

Regions of Operation

Africa - East and Central Africa

Countries of Operation

Uganda

Countries of Work

Uganda

Overview

MakCHS is comprised of four schools; medicine, Biomedical, Health Sciences and Public health. The school of medicine comprises thirteen departments and one of them is Family Medicine, where I operate. There are several undergraduate and postgraduate programs in the college. The faculty are primarily involved in teaching, research and service delivery.

Size

Large

Areas of Expertise

  • General
  • Curriculum development
  • Process facilitation
  • Training
  • Civil society engagement
  • Community health boards
  • Social accountability and community advocacy for health
  • Social participation and health communication
  • Strengthening linkages between community health and PHC
  • Resource allocation
  • Decentralization
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Health management information systems
  • Disease prevention
  • Health promotion
  • Immunization
  • Surveillance
  • Community health workers--engagement, capacity-building and retention
  • Human resources planning, management, training and development
  • Staff motivation and retention
  • Data collection methodology
  • Performance management plans
  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • Research
  • Results and logical frameworks
  • Family planning
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Malaria
  • Maternal, newborn and child health
  • Non-communicable diseases
  • Nutrition
  • Tuberculosis
  • Problems and priorities assessment
  • Community health services
  • Design and organization of service delivery models that include PHC and community health services
  • Health management
  • Licensing and accreditation
  • Medical audit
  • Pharmaceutical management
  • PHC
  • Quality and quality assurance
  • Service delivery networks
  • Facilitating stakeholder dialgoue
  • Inventory management
  • Risk management

Areas of Expertise

  • General
  • Curriculum development
  • Process facilitation
  • Training
  • Civil society engagement
  • Community health boards
  • Social accountability and community advocacy for health
  • Social participation and health communication
  • Strengthening linkages between community health and PHC
  • Resource allocation
  • Decentralization
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Health management information systems
  • Disease prevention
  • Health promotion
  • Immunization
  • Surveillance
  • Community health workers--engagement, capacity-building and retention
  • Human resources planning, management, training and development
  • Staff motivation and retention
  • Data collection methodology
  • Performance management plans
  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • Research
  • Results and logical frameworks
  • Family planning
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Malaria
  • Maternal, newborn and child health
  • Non-communicable diseases
  • Nutrition
  • Tuberculosis
  • Problems and priorities assessment
  • Community health services
  • Design and organization of service delivery models that include PHC and community health services
  • Health management
  • Licensing and accreditation
  • Medical audit
  • Pharmaceutical management
  • PHC
  • Quality and quality assurance
  • Service delivery networks
  • Facilitating stakeholder dialgoue
  • Inventory management
  • Risk management