Uganda Country Brief
Photo: "Kidepo, Uganda" by Rod Waddington is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
A long-standing partnership with Makerere University forms the back-bone of the University's relationship with Uganda.
Uganda
UMN, Uganda Students Collaborate on Global Health Issues
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.
Ausen-Anifrani Developing Text Message Service to Educate, Protect Pregnant Women in Uganda
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.