Keeping Campus Safe: Diane Niyotwagira on Fighting Virus Transmission
Born in Kigali just one year after the widespread devastation of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, it would be fifteen years until Diane Niyotwagira and her siblings travelled up to Butaro, UGHE’s remote and rural home in Northern Province Rwanda, to …
Stephania Mukeshimana: Scaling up Access to Equitable Maternal Health Care in Resource-Constrained Settings
Stephania Mukeshimana can’t remember a time when she didn’t subconsciously want to take care of people. From a young age, she would actively elect to accompany sick friends, family and members of her community to the local hospital to receive treatment, and …
Closing the Gender Gap in Global Health & Science
Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science, an UN-recognised day aiming to spotlight the acute global shortage of female scientists, and advance gender equity in this field to address major global health challenges and achieve global SDGs. Globally, just …
I Am & I Will: UGHE Stands in Solidarity With World Cancer Day
Today is World Cancer Day, a global uniting initiative led by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) that aims to spark collective action towards a cancer free world. 10 million people die each year from cancer, a total that exceeds the …
