Although significant resources have been invested in disease control programs, Uganda is still far from achieving disease control goals. While Uganda has developed highly successful research collaborations in HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria over the last 30 years, most of this work has been focused on clinical research, and the findings have not always translated into policy and practice changes. Currently, we need urgent and comparable investment in Implementation Science (ImS) research to strengthen the response to diseases of public health importance.

The Makerere University ImS program (D43TW010037) is a research training grant awarded by the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health since June 2015. We are implementing a unique multi-disciplinary ImS research training program at Makerere University. The goals of the program are to: 1) provide training and mentoring in the field of implementation science to Ugandan scholars and 2) establish an ImS training site at Makerere University School of Medicine for Uganda and other institutions in Africa. Through our collaboration with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), junior and senior researchers are getting trained and mentored in implementation science research and immense interest has been generated through our on-going activities. These efforts will enhance our response to HIV, malaria, TB and other communicable and non-communicable diseases.

I invite you to browse our website to learn more about our programs and how you can be part of them.

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