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 success in their fight against COVID-19. Leaders choosing to put the economy over […]
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 COVID-19 vaccines, which is key to collective immunity and global recovery. Simultaneously, preventable […]
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 Excellence in the most rural part of Sierra Leone, Kono District. This 166-bed […]
Christine Nyinawintore is one of of 2284 CHWs in Burera District, UGHE’s home in Northern Province Rwanda, supporting in COVID19 vaccination campaign. 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 that focuses on maternal and child health, control of infectious diseases, health education, […]
Dr. Olayinka Folake and MsGloria Igihozo are one of 25 mentor-mentee pairs in UGHE’s Mentorship Program, a pioneering two-year initiative hosted by the Center for Gender Equity providing formal frameworks for transformative mentorship in Africa. 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 support mentees and mentors on this journey. Gloria Igihozo and Dr. Folake Olayinka […]
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 new virtual innovations in teaching, as well as keeping the wider UGHE community […]
Moses Izabiriza (left) and Alice Kayibanda (right), two of the four Rwandan artists who, at the 2020 edition of Hamwe Festival, presented a powerful digital exhibition – Stigma, Power & Hopes – exploring personal perceptions, attitudes and experiences of mental health in Rwanda. Alice and Moses will be speakers at the upcoming Mbwira Ndumva Symposium. 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 the rapid influx of critically ill patients to hospitals and intensive care units […]
Women are cornerstones of past, present and future health systems globally, a fact that has become especially apparent in the unparalleled contributions of women in every profession to the fight against COVID-19. Pictured here: A Rwandan female frontline health worker conducts a Covid-19 test in Kigali recently. Photo captured by Dan Nsengiyumva/The NewTimes 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 globally. The global gender agenda has taken a significant backstep during the global […]
‘It’s this culture at UGHE that motivates me daily’. Diane Niyotwagira, campus contractor on the cleaning team, is helping her ‘UGHE Family’ in Butaro stay safe during the global pandemic. 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 settle. Now her family live a brief ten minutes walk from the campus […]
Stephania is now one of 45,516 CHWs in Rwanda deployed at the village level to provide basic care and follow-up to benefit community physical and mental wellbeing. 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 became acutely aware of the critical role of health professionals. ‘It was always […]
