Uganda

Digital technology enables powerful learning and international collaborations for public health.

The Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility is supporting two projects with a strong interdisciplinary focus that span the globe and the University of Minnesota system.

Naggita “Maya” Mayimuna is one of 24 Washington Mandela Fellows who will participate in a six-week Leadership Institute at the University of Minnesota. Maya is the founder of the nonprofit Women and Youth Platform for Action and a councilwoman for her local municipality in Uganda.

The Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility (CGHSR)’s Global Health in Local Contexts course allowed students from three countries to experience global health from across continents. 

Over the summer, twenty-five of Africa’s brightest emerging leaders virtually participated in an academic and leadership institute at the University of Minnesota through the Mandela Washington Fellowship, part of the Young African Leaders Initiative.

For students studying global health at the University of Minnesota, there’s a new partnership that’s poised to teach real-world lessons while expanding their education boundaries – literally. It’s called the Uganda Research Training Collaborative.

In Uganda, 360 out of every 100,000 mothers die of often preventable pregnancy conditions. To help save their lives, maternal and child health MPH student Sonja Ausen-Anifrani is working with an interdisciplinary team to develop “SMS Maama” — a mobile phone-based educational service that provides expectant mothers with pregnancy and postpartum information via text messages.