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  • ‘Life-changing experience:’ Western health sciences students learn, intern in Uganda

    September 19, 2024
    Master's program in global health systems provides firsthand look at Ugandan health-care system

  • Menstruation is Every Girls Right

    June 01, 2023
    March, April, and May were incredible and fruitful months for us as we worked in partnerships under our various projects to ensure the better health of young people, ranging from commemorating important SRHR days like International Women's Day and Menstrual Hygiene Day to holding various outreaches and capacity-building training. Please take a few minutes to check out the highlights.

  • GHAR 2023 Career Panel

    May 25, 2023
    Brie O'Sullivan is a Health Informatics PhD candidate and SSHRC doctoral award recipient at Western University studying the use of innovative technologies in public health supply chains to improve health equity and accessibility. Brie is also a Policy Analyst on the WHO team at the Public Health Agency of Canada's Office of International Affairs (OIA) and the lead on youth engagement strategies for the OIA.

  • Western Research Forum 2023

    March 17, 2023
    The global HIV epidemic and the emergence of COVID-19 devastated the population worldwide. The healthcare systems were forced to handle the double burden of both infectious diseases. Our scoping review evaluated the impact of COVID-19 on the delivery of HIV health services for females in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

  • Western partners with Ugandan research centre to help address global health challenges

    July 04, 2022
    A new strategic partnership between Western and the Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC) in Kampala, Uganda, establishes a long-term commitment for research collaboration to address the world’s most challenging global health issues.

  • A Defining Moment: Gender-based Violence and HIV Prevention in Uganda

    June 06, 2022
    HomeBlogRecents PostsA Defining Moment: Gender-based Violence and HIV Prevention in Uganda A Defining Moment: Gender-based Violence and HIV Prevention in Uganda Jennifer Kristin Clark on Safari with Giraffe in background By Jennifer Kristin Clarke, MMASc. in Global Health Systems I am currently finishing my 1-year MMASc. in Global Health Systems at Western. As part of this experience, I am currently in Uganda for an 8-week practicum placement. I am fortunate to have been placed for a research internship with the Rakai Health Sciences Program (RHSP), a program that is focused on improving health through research. This is an NGO that operates in a region that once had an extremely high HIV infection rate of 19.1% of the population over the age of 15 years (Nalugoda et al., 1997).