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NTU-MAK Partnership

Professor Rhoda Wanyenze (Dean of Makerere School of Public Health) welcomes the NTU-Mak Partnership team and the NTU Eastern African Team. (L-R: Filimin Niyongabo (Project Coordinator, Makerere University), Prof Mazeda Hossain (Director, NTU Eastern Africa Centre), Prof Rhoda Wanyenze (Dean of Makerere, School of Public Health), Prof Linda Gibson (NTU-Mak UK Lead), Dr David Musoke (NTU-Mak Uganda Lead), Jonathan Conway (Coordinator, NTU Eastern Africa Centre), Sally Bashford-Squires (PhD Student, NTU) and Grace Lubega (Research Associate, Makerere University).

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Project summary

Since 2010, the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) has had a formal partnership with the School of Public Health at Makerere University, Uganda. This collaboration has recently expanded to include other disciplines at both universities including nursing, microbiology, veterinary, as well as environmental and agricultural sciences. The focus of this partnership is on training, community service, research and capacity building in Uganda and UK. Makerere University is a NTU Institutional International Partner.

Countries

UK and Uganda

Partnership approach

The model of the partnership is centred on: Mobility, Knowledge Exchange and Social Enterprise and Impact. The partnership through this model has strengthened community health in Wakiso District, Uganda using a health systems approach. The major health systems building blocks targeted by the project at community level are:

  • Health workforce (through enhancing the capacity of community health workers (CHWs) and their supervisors who are mainly nurses).
  • Health information systems (through supporting the completeness and timely submission of data from CHWs).
  • Access to essential medicines (through enhancing timely delivery of drugs and other commodities to CHWs).
  • Health service delivery (through improving performance of CHWs in relation to quality of care, respective care, and timely referral of patients) and governance and leadership (through supporting the supervision and coordination of community health).
  • Through the partnership weak health systems components in the community has been strengthened. The main outcome of the project is the continual better functioning of the community health system through improved performance of the CHWs.
  • The partnership has also been involved in the ERASMUS International Credit Mobility which has led to student placements, joint PhDs, international conference attendance, and student and staff (e.g., Community Health Workers, academic and other university staff) exchanges between the two universities.

Team members

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Publications 

2023
  1. Musoke D, Gibson L, Lubega G, Gbadesire M, Boateng S, Twesigye B, Gheer J, Nakachwa B, Obeng Brown M, Brandish C, Winter J, Ng B Y, Russell-Hobbs K.  Antimicrobial stewardship in private pharmacies in Wakiso district, Uganda: a qualitative study. Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 16, Article number: 147 (2023)
  2. Gibson, L., Ikhile, D., Nyashanu, M. and Musoke, D., 2023. Health Promotion Research in International Settings: A Shared Ownership Approach for North-South Partnerships. In: Global Handbook of Health Promotion Research, Vol. 3: Doing Health Promotion Research (pp. 263-272). Cham: Springer International Publishing
  3. Lubega GB, Musoke D, Nakalawa S, Brandish C, Ng BY, Niyongabo F, Kitutu FE, Gheer J, Winter J, Brown MO, Russell-Hobbs K, Mugisha L, Gibson L. Scaling-Up Interventions for Strengthening Antimicrobial Stewardship Using a One Health Approach in Wakiso District, Uganda. In: Medical Sciences Forum. 2023; 15(1):7.
2022
  1. Musoke, David & Nyashanu, Mathew & Bugembe, Henry & Lubega, Grace & O'Donovan, James & Halage, Ali & Gibson, Linda. (2022). Contested notions of challenges affecting Community Health Workers in low- and middle-income countries informed by the Silences Framework. Hum Resour Health 20, 4 (2022).
  2. Ikhile, Deborah & Omodara, Damilola & Seymour-Smith, Sarah & Musoke, David & Gibson, Linda. (2022). “Some They Need Male, Some They Need Female”: A Gendered Approach for Breast Cancer Detection in Uganda. Frontiers in Global Women's Health. 3. 10.3389/fgwh.2022.746498. 0.1186/s12960-021-00701-0.