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 …
Strengthening Global Health Equity Through The Lens of Nurses and Midwives
Of the world’s 43.5 million healthcare professionals, more than 27.9 million are nurses and midwives. They are the cornerstone of past, present and future health systems and, as a result of the wide range of critical health care functions they perform, are …
Samuel Munana Aravuga ku Gukemura Ibibazo by’Abafite Ubumuga bwo Kutumva mu Rwanda
Kuva mu bwana bwe, Samuel Munana, umuyobozi w’umuryango nyarwanda w’abafite ubumuga bwo kutumva (RNUD) mu magambo ahinnye y’icyongereza, yakuze abona ibibazo abafite ubumuga bwo kutumva bahura nabyo. Nawe ubwe kuva ku myaka umunani afite ubumuga bwo kutumva yatewe n’uburwayi bwa mugiga. Ibibazo …
Samuel Munana On Addressing Inequities Faced by Rwanda’s Deaf Community
From a young age, Samuel Munana, now Executive Director of Rwanda National Union of the Deaf (RNUD), witnessed firsthand the challenges faced by the deaf community in Rwanda. He himself had been deaf since the age of eight, due to meningitis. Challenges …
WHO Consultant, Claire Kimilu, Applies her MGHD to Tackle Global Cervical Cancer Equitably
When Claire Kimilu began her biology undergraduate degree, she had a set intention – to become a doctor. It had been a narrative she had given herself from an early age, an almost pre-programmed response to every adult’s question of children; ‘What …
