MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES ANNUAL REPORT 1 CONTENTS CONTENTS PAGE ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT 4 SUPPORT FUNCTIONS 6 TEACHING AND LEARNING 8 RESEARCH AND INNOVATIONS AWARDS 21 KNOWLEDGE SHARING AND TRANSFER TO SOCIETY 40 CONFERENCES AND INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS 46 PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATIONS 50 PUBLICATIONS 51 FINANCIAL STATUS AND RESOURCE MOBILISATION 82 HUMAN RESOURCES 83 1 Organization and Management THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES HAS EXPERIENCED CHAPTER CHANGES IN MANAGEMENT AS FOLLOWS: Dr. Charles Ibingira Department and Associate Dean Research for was appointed Principal, Makerere University the Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Ibingira is an active College of Health Sciences for a 4-year term. General Surgeon and an Assoc. Professor of Before ascending to this office, he was the Dean Anatomy. He has worked as a Medical Officer in School of Biomedical Sciences at the College a clinical setting. His 4-year tenure as Principal, of Health Sciences. He has served Makerere effective 2nd November 2015, comes soon after University for the last 20 years since 1996 his term as Dean School of Biomedical Sciences and has grown through the academic as well came to an end in late 2014. as leadership ranks; from lecturer, to Head of Dr. Isaac Okullo who has been acting as working in dental and health training and Principal since Professor Nelson Sewankambo’s research. He is well versed in health behavior as term ended, was appointed Deputy Principal well as epidemiologic research methods earning effective 2nd November 2015. He was before him a specialty in Public Health. then serving as the Dean, School of Health Sciences and Acting Deputy Principal, following Dr. Okullo has a wealth of teaching experience the departure of Prof. Celestino Obua who took in the fields of Dentistry, Public health and up appointment as Vice Chancellor of Mbarara management sciences. He has worked as a University of Science and Technology. dental Surgeon in a clinical setting, as well as In his 23 years of service at the University, hospital setting where he worked in a Regional Dr Okullo has gone through the ranks to the Referral hospital in as Dental Surgeon in the current level of Senior Lecturer. Over the years Uganda health system. Dr. Okullo has expertise Dr Okullo has built tremendous experience in research about oral health care and service, 4 MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH OF HEALTH SCIENCES ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Community based health professional training, of the International Association for Dental HIV and TB investigations in Uganda. Dr. Okullo Research East African Division and Uganda has led multi-disciplinary teams to several Dental Association for a number of years. He international vocational training programmes has worked closely with health sector ministry, under Rotary International arrangements that agencies and health organisations by providing have had impact in the capacity building In consultancy services. He has provided technical cardiac and dental care in Uganda. services to WHO, USAID and the Rotary Dr. Okullo has also led a number of organisations International. both locally and internationally. He was President Professor Moses Joloba is the new Dean, School of Biomedical Sciences, an appointment he took up from his role as Chair, Department of Medical Microbiology. Moses L. Joloba is a Professor of Molecular Biology, Immunology and Microbiology and the current Dean, of the School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences at Makerere University. He has developed skills in developing training programs, starting graduate and short courses, setting up standard laboratories, initiating and participating in successful North to South and South to South collaborations, conducting laboratory-based research as well as training of graduate students. Prof. Moses Kamya was appointed Dean of the School of Medicine. A professor of medicine, he was previously the Chair, Department of Medicine. He has major interests in Infectious Diseases and specifically in HIV and malaria research and programs. He has authored or co-authored over 200 papers in peer reviewed journals. He is a founding member of the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), the Makerere University Joint AIDS Program (MJAP), the Makerere University-University of California Research Collaboration (MU-UCSF), the Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration (IDRC) and the Uganda Malaria Surveillance Project (UMSP). New policy The Department of Nursing has developed a draft five-year strategic plan centered on transitioning the Department to a school. It is yet to be presented to the stakeholders in a meeting planned for 2016. 5 MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH OF HEALTH SCIENCES ANNUAL REPORT 2015 2 Support Functions CHAPTER SIR ALBERT COOK LIBRARY SERVICES The Digital Library and treatment of the most prevalent diseases in the country. Copies are distributed throughout MakCHS remains the biggest submitter of the country to district headquarters and hospitals. research output into MakIR (the Institutional The current issue is Vol. 17 No. 1, 2013. A few Repository name has been changed from, Uganda copies are available in the Library. Scholarly Digital Library (USDL) to Makerere Institutional Repository – MakIR). The Library Preservation of Sir Albert Cook can be accessed at: http://dspace.mak.ac.ug/. The medical records Sir Albert Cook Library has continued to submit research output into MakIR. The table below Sir Albert Cook Library received funding from shows the number of items uploaded on the new the British Library’s Endangered Archives MAKIR site, by College: Program (EAP) to preserve the near-to- destruction hand-written medical archival College Number of items uploaded notes. The one-year project, which started on November 1, 2015, is aimed at preserving and June 2015 March 2016 making more accessible the archival collection CAES 335 480 that has attracted researchers around the world. CoBAMS 199 380 The material has been deteriorating fast due to CoCIS 391 395 overuse and the age of the paper where it was CEES 126 288 hand-written. The project includes preparation CEDAT 39 81 for the preservation, actual digitization, the equipment, training of staff, number of records MakCHS 909 1,101 digitized, challenges encountered, as well as CHUSS 285 756 recommendations to other libraries with similar CoNAS 27 54 projects. The preliminary/preparatory stages CoVAB 67 98 have been finalised. The actual digitization LAW 22 20 progress will be reported in the next report. NOTE: The figures exclude the items uploaded on the old DSpace site. Outreach activities a) Consumer Health Information workshop Training The Library has continued to train MakCHS Sir Albert Cook Library, Makerere students and researchers in information searching University, with support from the Elsevier and retrieval skills, and reference management. Foundation conducted a Consumer Health Information workshop for public and No Training Number of users community librarians in Uganda, 3rd-5th trained November 2015. The workshop was one 1 Reference management 25 of the activities of the Network of African Medical Librarians (NAML), who won a (EndNote) grant from the Elsevier Foundation. The 2 Library user education 50 core activities of the grant were to: a. Develop training courses for librarians The Uganda Health Information working in public and community Digest: libraries in seven African countries, Albert Cook Library has continued to produce the in finding, organizing and using Uganda Health Information Digest. The Digest consumer health information. comprises articles and abstracts on the diagnosis b. Develop ‘train the trainer’ courses 6 MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH OF HEALTH SCIENCES ANNUAL REPORT 2015 for librarians working in public and community libraries in seven African countries. c. Conduct training for public and community librarians so as to equip them with skills to support information seekers in finding healthinformation. During phase one of the Project (2015), fourteen (14) librarians were trained from the following libraries: 1. Nakaseke Community Library 2. Kawempe Youth Centre 3. Kitengesa Community Library 4. Lira Community Library 5. Nambi Sepuuya CRC 6. Masaka Public Library 7. Hoima Public Library 8. Kampala Capital City Authority Library, and 9. The National Library of Uganda. b) EndNote-MURTI training at MUST The Library conducted training for 25 graduate students at Mbarara University of Science and Technology, under the Mbarara University Research and Training Initiative. 7 MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH OF HEALTH SCIENCES ANNUAL REPORT 2015 3 Teaching and Learning STUDENT ENROLMENT CHAPTER Total NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN THE COLLEGE 2015/2016 YR 1 YR 2 YR 3 YR 4 YR 5 SCHOOL OF MEDICINE BACHELOR OF MEDICINE AND BACHELOR OF SURGERY 167 151 135 131 126 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN RADIOGRAPHY 16 12 12 13 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY 5 8 10 5 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN PALLIATIVE CARE 10 20 28 DIPLOMA I PALLIATIVE CARE 20 14 MASTER OF MEDICINE IN ANAETHESIA 10 8 8 MASTER OF MEDICINE IN FAMILLY MEDICINE 5 4 5 MASTER OF MEDICINE IN INTERNAL MEDICINE 19 8 9 MASTER OF MEDICINE IN ENT 8 3 4 MASTER OF MEDICINE IN OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY 25 20 14 MASTER OF MEDICINE IN OPTHALMOLOGY 5 3 3 MASTER OF MEDICINE IN ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY 9 11 3 4 MASTER OF MEDICINE IN PAEDIATRICS MASTER OF MEDICINE IN PAEDIATRICS AND CHILD HEALTH(ENGLISH) 26 17 15 MASTER OF MEDICINE IN PSYCHIATRY 10 3 1 MASTER OF MEDICINE IN RADIOLOGY 12 3 4 MASTER OF MEDICINE IN