Our History
The Centre was founded in 2013 to build capacity for knowledge translation for public policy in Africa cutting across health, education and food security.
Vision
A leading centre of excellence in evidence synthesis and knowledge translation for health policy in sub-Saharan Africa.
Scope
Worked in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Sudan, Cameroon, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zambia. Started with health policy and systems. We now also support agriculture, engineering, and education.
Mission
To transform Africa into an environment that is driven by evidence-informed public policy and action and one that is self-reliant in capacity for evidence synthesis and knowledge translation.
Building Sustainable Capacity For Conducting And Using Evidence In Line With SDGs.
We support teams through skills building workshops or trainings, policy dialogues, public lectures, presentations to decision makers and conferences on linking evidence to public policy. We have produced various systematic reviews, rapid responses and evidence briefs for policy.
Trainings
Course On Systematic Reviews And Meta-analysis Of Health Systems Research
This course is designed to focus on practical applications of the principles of systematic reviews taught in the introductory lectures. Participants will be involved in identifying health system problems for which research evidence is needed and proceed to conduct and publish systematic reviews answering this question. To achieve this objective, course participants will be engaged in systematic review conduct beyond the 5-day full-time face-to-face interaction in Kampala, Uganda.
Rapid Response Evidence Briefs
The World Health Assembly (WHA) in its 67th meeting, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended evidence based decision-making among national policy makers and other stakeholders.
We, at Makerere University College of health sciences are scaling up efforts to build capacity of researchers, policy makers and other stakeholders in evidence informed public policy making using Rapid Response Evidence Briefs. The Rapid Response Service aims at making synthesised research evidence easily accessible to policy makers in a timely way (short period).
Grade For Systematic Reviews And Meta-analysis Of Health Systems Research
This course is designed to focus on practical applications of the GRADE (Grading, Recommendations, Assessment, Development, Evaluation). The hands-on approach builds on our systematic reviews course to apply the overall assessment of the quality of the body of evidence to inform recommendations & for guidelines development.
News
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Dr Ekwaro Obuku, Dr Alison Kinengyere, Dr Eve Namisango and Mr Robert Apunyo at the
Between September and November 2020, CoVPRES and THRiVE with supported from Makerere University Research and
CoVPRESS decent work team has come up to investigate the health care workers who have
The COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Evidence Synthesis (CovPRES) group conducts rapid evidence synthesis to support evidence
Dr. Moses Ocan is the Principal Investigator of the MakRIF Covid-19 grant awarded to the
The Africa Centre MakCHS has established the COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Evidence Synthesis Group (COVPRES). This is
As part of capacity building, the Africa Centre Mak-CHS organized a two days training in
A visit by stakeholders from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on 7th February 2020 at
L-R; Dr. Ekwaro .A. Obuku (Director, Africa Centre Mak-CHS), Mr. Mathew Kato (Innovations for Poverty Action), Ms. Caroline Otike (Graduate Research Fellow,
The African Union (AU) Member States in 2013 crafted an African driven vision, Agenda 2063:
