MGHD’21 Student Elissa Dushime on Leveraging His MGHD to Advocate for The Vulnerable
Growing up as a Congolese refugee in a refugee camp in Kibuye, in the Western Province of Rwanda, Elissa Dushime witnessed firsthand the unique health challenges faced by vulnerable communities in under-resourced settings. As a young boy, he saw his own physical …
Analysing the ‘Bigger Picture’: UGHE Hosts Student One Health Photo Challenge
The clear interconnectedness between the environment, animals and the activities and health of people has never been so stark. The COVID-19 pandemic, suspected to have originated from a bat and transmitted through an animal market in Wuhan, China, has presented a pressing …
Cooking for Social Impact: Emmanuel Dushimimana & the Butaro Campus Kitchen
From a very early age, Emmanuel Dushimimana knew he was going to be a chef. He had watched his grandmother cooking pasta for the family, and enjoyed flicking through the pages of Jamie Oliver cookbooks. His break came aged sixteen when, accepted …
UGHE Invests in Building Medical Educator Capacity through a Faculty Development Series, in Partnership with CUSM
Partnerships – whether between sectors, disciplines, countries, governments, organizations or individuals – are critical to fostering collaborative solutions to global challenges. They promote the lateral sharing of expertise, learnings and know-how and, when forged across different country contexts, develop cross-cultural recommendations that …
eGlobal: UGHE Students Virtually Co-Develop Research with US Student Counterparts
International partnership has never been more important. Despite the obvious social, cultural, economic, and geographical variances of countries globally, this year they have all fought a common threat; that of COVID-19. Building bridges between countries and sectors, and fostering interprofessional relationships and …
UGHE’s 2nd Annual Hamwe Festival Brings Together Global Health Experts and Artists from 20+ Countries to Address Mental Health and Social Justice
The Five Day Online Festival Highlighted The Roles of Art, Culture, and Decolonization in Mental Health KIGALI, RWANDA – The University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) successfully concluded their second annual Hamwe Festival online with their closing ceremony on Sunday, November …
As UGHE’s 2020 GHDLP Program Comes to a Close; Meet the First-Ever Francophone Cohort Ahead of Their Reconvening
The breadth and success of UGHE’s first-Francophone GHDLP program can be summarized neatly into numbers. In February this year, UGHE welcomed seven country groups from Francophone African countries to Rwanda for a fourteen day intensive residency to kick-start the program. Participants learned …
UGHE MGHD ‘20 Graduate Appointed Advisor to Rwanda’s Honorable Minister of State
UGHE’s students and alumni are a beacon of hope for the future. In a world ravaged by one of the greatest health threats we have faced in history, these current and future health leaders hold the key to driving large-scale change, supporting …
Burera Secondary School Headmaster on Inspiring the Future’s Doctors, Nurses & Midwives
Nestled in the foothills of UGHE’s neighboring District, Burera, lies a secondary school – Groupe Scolaire Runaba – home to more than two thousand local students and office to Bernard Zikora, the school’s long-standing Headmaster. On meeting him, he immediately strikes you …
Faculty Perspective: A ’Listener, Catalyzer and Helper’ to UGHE’s GHDLP Participants
Over the last eight months, whilst the world has been tackling the emerging threat of COVID-19, thirty participants in UGHE’s Executive Education Global Health Delivery Leadership Program (GHDLP) have been busy implementing their Breakthrough Projects; projects designed to address a variety of …
Meet the UGHE Summer Bootcamp Lions: Ornella Ingabire and Hamaiyal Sana Discuss Research on Sexual and Reproductive (SRH) Services
The Office of the Vice Chancellor at UGHE hosts a cohort of summer interns every year with the goal to develop young global health leaders’ understanding of equity in health systems building and health care delivery. In the past, this internship program …
Prof. Tim Carey Reflects on his First Six Months in Rwanda – The Land of a Thousand Hills
— As originally published on the website of the Consulate General of the Republic of Rwanda in Australia. Kindly find the full article here. — –Words by Prof. Timothy Carey, Director of the Institute of Global Health Equity Research, UGHE — * …
