2023

On September 20, 2022, experts from Uganda’s Ministry of Health (MOH) and National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) were in the middle of a joint training session on border health surveillance with their Kenyan and Rwandan counterparts…

FETP-Intermediate is a supervised, on-the-job, competency-based training and service (workforce development) program to improve field epidemiologic capacity at the regional level. It builds trainees competencies in surveillance, data…

A functional Civil Registration and Vital Statistics system ensures that every person in the country is legally identified, to inform national policy, promote efficient government planning, effective use of resources and provide accurate…

Since May 2022, the second cohort of FETP-Intermediate has been undertaking modular training interspersed with on job field projects that helped them concretize what they learned in class. The Sudan Ebola Virus outbreak that took the…

Summary Background:  Over the last two decades, there have been multiple interventions aimed at reducing the burden of perinatal deaths in Uganda. These include perinatal death audits and newborn care packages. Despite this, the country…

Summary Background: In Uganda, electronic District Health Information System (DHIS2) surveillance data are entered by health facilities on a weekly or monthly basis. The monthly outpatient department (OPD) reports are submitted in 3…

Summary Background: Continuous monitoring of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) among isolates from clinical samples can inform effective drug selection for patients. In Uganda, human AMR surveillance occurs at national and regional referral…

On the 23rd of January 2023 an alert was received for suspected cholera; when five male residents from Luweero Island in Buvuma District developed severe rice water diarrhea. One of the patients died on the way to Katosi to seek medical…

We are pleased to announce the call for articles for the Uganda public health bulletin, Volume 8, Issue 2, formerly called the Uganda National Institute of Quarterly Epidemiological Bulletin. The bulletin focuses on informing the…

From 2022 to date, the country has been experiencing malaria epidemics in a number of districts. Uganda took on the incident management system to manage malaria epidemics in the country being the first country in Sub-Sahara Africa to adopt…