Leading with Compassion: Shaping the Next Generation of Global Health Fighters
In the midst of a global pandemic and the various national responses to it, we’ve collectively seen that leadership comes in many forms and is crucial to managing change effectively. Country leaders demonstrating equity-driven, evidence-based approaches that prioritize the vulnerable have seen …
Fostering Immunization Leadership & Management through Evidence-based Training
The GAVI Epilamp Program of UGHE, Yale University, and PATH. *** There has never been a greater need to strengthen national leadership and management of immunization programmes, as countries globally take on the monumental task of rapidly procuring, distributing, and equitably administering …
Health Systems that Save Lives & Give Dignity to Mothers
— Words by Emmanuel Kamanzi, Director of Infrastructure, UGHE — As we celebrate Mother’s Day today, it’s humbling and sensational to have witnessed a great milestone achieved this month within the One-PIH Family; breaking the ground of the state-of-the-art Maternal Center of …
Community Health Workers: Delivering Impact from Classroom to Community
Community Health Workers (CHWs) are at the centre of community mobilization for healthy behaviours to prevent the spread of COVID-19. They make up the largest single group involved in health delivery in Rwanda, playing a vital role in providing village-level health care …
Transformative Mentorship for 21st Century Health Challenges
Set against the backdrop of an increasingly complex and demanding world, mentorship is a proven tool to help learners find and enact their full potential and navigate the often labyrinthine path to career success. But few institutionalized frameworks exist to connect and …
Passion for Programming: IT Assistant Liliane Uwase on Striving for Equity
Joining the UGHE Family in February this year, Liliane Uwase was immediately at the forefront of UGHE’s seamless transition to online working and learning. Serving as an IT Helpdesk Assistant, her team’s work has been critical in meeting COVID-19 related demands for …
Stigma, Power & Hopes: Alice Kayibanda & Moses Izabiriza talk arts & mental health ahead of Mbwira Ndumva Symposium
The devastating impacts of COVID-19 will no doubt be long-lasting, with a slow road to recovery mapped out for global economies and societies. Billions have been spent in relief funds over the last year-and-quarter, funding infrastructure, equipment and human resources to support …
Changing the World by Challenging It: UGHE Celebrates International Women’s Day
A challenged world is a changing world. This year’s International Women’s Day, set against the backdrop of COVID-19’s devastating burden of women, brings with it a new message; that of the urgent need for a shift change in the status of women …
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 …
