UNIPH - Uganda National Institute of Public Health

Background International public health days are an opportunity to create awareness and understanding about health issues and mobilize support for action from the local community to the international stage. Every year, on July 28th, the…

The Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program launched another of her tracks, the Laboratory Leadership Program at hotel African on 25th July 2023 from 9am to 2pm. This competence-based fellowship program provides a unique opportunity to…

Over the years, Field Epidemiology Training Programs (FETPs) across the region have worked collaboratively towards building competencies of public health workforces. Collaboration includes information, knowledge, and experience sharing.Ms.…

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…