Mbarara University Receives Fund to Establish School of Public health

A team of medical researchers from MUST in a group photo.PHOTO BY BOB AINE

Mbarara University of Science and Technology(MUST) is set to receive a sum of USD11.8m to start a school of public health to improve community health in South Western Uganda.

According to the Assistant Programme Director, Mr. Moses Ntaro the five year project is funded by Wyss Medical foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA.

He said they have been operating as medics working with the blood transfusion unit at Kabuyanda Health Centre IV and revitalised Rukunyu Health Centre IV with specialised surgical services.

Officiating at the first annual community health research conference at Hotel Triangle in Mbarara, Prof. Celestine Obua, the university’s Vice-Chancellor said the public health school will improve the University global rankings.

“Health in any home or community translates into global health, so the efforts to improve health in a community should start from the smallest unit which is the home,” Prof Obua said.

 

Tumuheire Agnes

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