Global Health Uganda (GHU) is a non-profit organization registered in April 2010 by Ugandan and American health scientists from Makerere University, University of Minnesota, and Michigan State University. GHU was formed to provide a collaborative platform for individuals and groups conducting scientific research especially within Uganda, through provision of the needed infrastructure for research.
Africa Suitcaselab is a project funded by the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) and an African-European partnership for development and deployment of rapid SARS-CoV-2 RNA and antigen detection assays by the Botnar Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH). Both contain a multi-country blinded phase 2 study to evaluate rapid detection systems of SARS-COV-2.
The main aim is to evaluate 3 different point of need systems (isothermal amplification, peakPCR and rapid antigen test) for SARS-COV-2 through a multi-country blinded study and its implementation in low resource settings. Learn more about our projects.
The consortium consists of 3 European Partners (coordination and assay development) as well as 7 North and Sub-Saharan partners (diagnostic evaluation). Learn more about who we are.
MAKERERE UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR HEALTH AND POPULATION RESEARCH (MUCHAP): Operating “The Iganga-Mayuge Health and Demographic Surveillance Site” Makerere University Center for Health and Population Research (MUCHAP) is a corporate organ of Makerere University, and registered body-corporate, a company limited by guarantee, without having share capital. MUCHAP is governed by a Board of Directors and this is the supreme policy making body of the organization with representation from different stakeholders, including Makerere University, Ministry of Health, Uganda Bureau of Statistics, representation of the International researchers, Development partners, host districts of Iganga/Mayuge and the Private Sector. MUCHAP was registered in 2015 and it operates the Iganga-Mayuge Health and Demographic Surveillance Site (IMHDSS) which is a member of the INDEPTH Network.
The establishment of MUCHAP as a legal entity/company of Makerere University implies that it has flexibility to determine and drive its research agenda, has the mandate to unilaterally enter into collaboration with potential research and development partners or organizations, determine and manage human resources needs and related matters among other things.
The IMHDSS is a community based field research site and a training center established by Makerere University in collaboration with Karolinska Institutet-Sweden. The site started its operations in August 2004 and officially inaugurated in June 2005 by the Swedish Ambassador in Uganda. Makerere University established good working relations with the host districts and for over 10 years now, Iganga district has provided the site office space for its operations.
Health problems stemming from environmental and occupational hazards and climate change are escalating in the Eastern African region. Pollution resulting from increasing population, rapid urbanization and industrialization is a growing concern. In 2016, for example, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated ambient air pollution caused 4.2 million premature deaths around the world. 91% of the world’s populations reside in places where WHO Air Quality Guidelines are not met, with the greatest exposures facing those in low- and middle-income countries.
The Eastern Africa GEOHealth Hub is a research and training center focused on environmental and occupational health in eastern Africa, The Hub started in its Cycle I funding with focus on Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. In the current Cycle II, the primary focus will be on Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda, along with expanded training partnerships in Rwanda, Ghana, and Cameroon.
Formally launched in 2015, the Hub grew from a joint planning grant awarded to the University of Southern California in the United States (U.S.) and Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia by the Global Environmental and Occupational Health (GEOHealth) program through the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2012. The GEOHealth initiative is overseen by the NIH to paired institutions in the U.S. and in low- or middle-income countries to plan research, training and curriculum development that address and inform health policy issues. Following a successful Cycle I, the Hub was renewed for another five year funding cycle in 2022 to continue ongoing research and training projects as well as launch new initiatives.
The Eastern Africa GEOHealth Hub headquarters are housed at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia and Columbia University in the U.S., for the research and training components, respectively. Training initiatives in Cycle II are supported by a consortium of U.S.-based experts from Columbia University, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Southern California, and Colorado State University.. In Cycle I, University of Wisconsin, Madison and the South Coast Air Quality Management District were U.S. based partners. Research initiatives are ongoing across eastern Africa led by researchers at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; Makerere University, Uganda; and the University of Nairobi, Kenya.
The Hub focuses on three targeted areas:
Through collaborative partnership the Hub has successfully designed and implemented a multifaceted research training program that has strengthened local capacity to conduct environmental and occupational health research as well as directly supported the development and implementation of a number of research studies and translation of findings in each Hub country in Cycle I. Building on this success, the Hub continues to grow its research and training portfolios, expand the Hub network, and foster in-country expertise in environmental and occupational health research and policy in Cycle II.
CFU is a Christian-based not-for-profit Non-Government Organization with headquarters at Mpererwe Ttula in Kampala. CFU operates countrywide with focus on Kamuli, Kayunga, Jinja, Iganga, Mayuge, Namutumba, Luuka, Kaliro, and Kampala to improve access, use and availability to healthcare, nutrition and food security, relevant education and livelihoods to children, youth, women and people with disability in rural and urban poor populations.