This year’s International Women’s Day, UGHE community shares powerful messages on how we can collectively #BreakTheBias. Breaking The Bias Against Women and Girls to Achieve Gender Equity: UGHE Celebrates International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day offers an important opportunity for all of us in our different capacities to raise awareness and stand together to promote gender equality. From highlighting women’s achievements to combating gender stereotypes and bias, reminding and educating ourselves and others, particularly the younger generation, about gender equality is one of the most fundamental changes […]
Theogene Uwizeyimana, UGHE Research Officer and Global Health Corps Fellow (2021-2022) at UGHE Butaro Campus. GHC Fellow, Theogene Uwizeyimana, on Addressing Health Inequities Through Research
Global Health Corps (GHC) Fellowship Program has developed and trained over 1000 health equity leaders with a mission of mobilizing the health equity movement since its foundation in 2009. Globally, young people have developed an ardent desire for social change, and GHC has been recruiting and nurturing young change-makers aged 30 and under from African […]
UGHE Announces the Passing of Prof. Paul Farmer
UGHE Announces New Board Members
The University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) is proud to announce that Lesley King has been chosen to become the next chair of the board of UGHE. Lesley King has been a board member of UGHE and an integral part of our community since its inception. In addition, she has served as a board member […]
UGHE’s state – of – the – art Campus in rural Rwanda, Butaro, Burera District. UNESCO Highlights UGHE as Model for Global Health Education
The United Nations’ education agency has highlighted the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) as a model for equitable global health education in a new report. The university, based in rural Butaro, Rwanda, is described as a “high-quality health sciences institution” helping shift the center of gravity from where it has traditionally been, within higher-income […]
Dr. Bashar Abubakar, moderating a townhall engagement meeting on access and delivery of healthcare services in rural communities in Nigeria under the #CommunityHealthWatch project. October 2021 How knowledge Acquired from UGHE Aid Bashar Abubakar in Tackling Health Challenges among Nigerian communities
Experts believe that what a person wants to achieve is easier when s/he puts in the effort and strives to do things that enable them to achieve their goals. Bashar Abubakar, a Nigerian who graduated from the UGHE’s Master of Science in Global Health Delivery (MGHD) Program is a good example that enlightens the steps one must take to move from one level […]
Hawa Iye Obaje, an alumna from the Master of Science in Global Health Delivery Class of 2020. Photo by Aimable Uwimana for UGHE UGHE Alumna Hawa Iye Obaje, on Managing Research and Impact Evaluation to Promote Global Health Equity and Social Justice in Liberia
From its first cohort to the following cohorts that graduates from its Master of Science in Global Health Delivery (MGHD), UGHE’s Alumni are global health leaders and changemakers, equipped with the skills to investigate complex problems through a new lens that is multidisciplinary, open-minded, and empathetic yet critical, as well as hands-on and practical field […]
UGHE’s School of Medicine Hosted the First Cohort of Medical Students’ White Coat Ceremony
On December 8th, 2021, the first White Coat Ceremony was held, bringing together distinguished leading global health experts, UGHE supporters and friends, leadership, faculty, staff, and students to celebrate UGHE’s first cohort of medical students (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery/Master of Science in Global Health Delivery (MBBS/MGHD)) as they transitioned from pre-clinical to clinical […]
Meet the Winners of the Hamwe Festival 2021 Short Story Contest
Hamwe Festival utilises the power of storytelling to help people understand the impact of global health issues. For its third edition, UGHE’s Hamwe Festival organized a short story contest in collaboration with Kigali Public Library (KPL), seeking short stories written in English or in French, about life in the era of COVID-19. The contest received […]
Pictured in April 2021, UGHE’s One Health Students on the field, assessing the interconnectedness and interdependence between human, animal, and environmental health UGHE One Health Students Recommend Collaboration to Solve Global Health Challenges
Class of 2021 Master of Science in Global Health Delivery (MGHD) students in the One Health option have underscored that institutions need to harmonize and strengthen collaboration in the application of the One Health approach as a remedy to health challenges that are threatening society. The students made various recommendations after a six-day One Health […]
