The University of Global Health Equity Graduates its Fifth Cohort from its Master of Science in Global Health Delivery
On Sunday 9th August, the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) will graduate twenty eight students from its Masters in Science for Global Health Delivery (MGHD) flagship program. This the fifth cohort the University has seen pass through its doors since it’s …
SCAR Inaugural Meeting: Training New Generations of Clinical Anatomists
To advance medical science in the region, we need to strategically build capacity by training world-class educators, professionals and researchers, as well as developing systems that enable them to optimize delivery through quality service, cutting edge innovations and commitment to equity in …
UGHE & Partners Lead Training on Licensing Examinations to Build Greater Public Safety
UGHE’s community of learners extends beyond its growing student body. Its ongoing commitment to deliver quality education, and do this equitably, also translates to increasing the capacity of educators to themselves improve, and sustain, the quality of medical education and healthcare delivery …
A Clear Insight of Gender in Ebola and COVID-19 Outbreaks: The Susceptibility Normalized
By: Joselyne Nzisabira, MBBS/MGHD Class of 2025 This essay was awarded first place in UGHE’s student essay writing competition on “Gender Equity Issues during Pandemics.” “We are in this together”, is a popular phrase used by leaders and news reporters during the …
Gender Lens: A Moment to Reveal and Wipe the Black Spots
By: Genereuse Iradukunda, MBBS/MGHD Class of 2025 This essay was awarded second place in UGHE’s student essay writing competition on “Gender Equity Issues during Pandemics.” The whole world incurred chaos as the COVID’19 started spreading early this year and on January 30, …
Caregiving: A Perpetual Gender Inequity Issue Uncontested
By: Olivier Mbarushimana Nshuti, MBBS/MGHD Class of 2025 This essay was awarded third place in UGHE’s student essay writing competition on “Gender Equity Issues during Pandemics” Throughout decades, the world has been driven by cultural perceptions and understandings that allusively prioritized people’s …
Life in Lockdown: Collaboration across Every Level on Butaro Campus
Despite the devastating socio-economic and health implications of this virus worldwide, COVID-19 has shown us that unity and collaboration – globally, but also on a smaller scale within organizations – can be a binding force to spark positive, and inclusive action. Collaboration …
A Message on Fighting Social Injustice from UGHE Vice Chancellor Prof. Agnes Binagwaho
Dear Readers, I hope you and your families are staying safe during this period of great uncertainty. The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic is now coupled with a worldwide fight to combat racial inequities, since the horrific murder of George Floyd and far too …
UGHE Drivers Serve as Bridge between Patients and Critical Cancer Care During COVID-19
This is a time of crisis globally, but it is also a time where unity and collaboration can triumph if countries, organizations and individuals find innovative ways to support one another and, where possible, put the resources they have available towards strengthening …
Phone the Frontline: Leah Blezard, MGHD ’19, on training Community Health Workers on COVID-19 response in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone has experienced its share of health challenges in the past decade. In 2014, it was at the epicenter of the West African Ebola epidemic. The country lost roughly 4000 people to the deadly disease over two years. Partners In Health …
Vice Chancellor Prof. Agnes Binagwaho Participates in Connected Women Leaders Virtual Health Forum
CWL/CARE Virtual Health Forum On May 15th, UGHE’s Vice Chancellor Prof. Agnes Binagwaho took part in the CWL/CARE Virtual Health Forum, Connected Women Leaders, an initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation, which aims to connect women leaders across all sectors of life and …
Celebrating International Day of the Nurse, and International Year of the Nurse & Midwife: Featuring Andre Ndayambaje, MGHD ’19
“The first baby I held was the baby of my sister. It was during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and my sister gave birth in the forest. It was raining and cold, and I didn’t know what to do …
