Training & Capacity Building
Building the next generation
Training and supervising the researchers shaping health informatics in Uganda and across Africa
HIRI is more than a research portfolio — it's a training ground. Through PhD and MSc supervision, postdoctoral fellowships, and short courses, we work with students and early-career researchers from across the region. Many are funded by HIRI projects; all leave with experience that translates into evidence, systems, and policy improvements for Uganda's health sector and beyond.
Trainees & alumni
The researchers HIRI has supervised and trained
Below is the directory of HIRI's current trainees and alumni.
What we do
Our training & capacity-building activities
HIRI's training and capacity-building activities include but are not limited to the following — from laboratory networking and community education to graduate-level supervision.
Step 01
HI capacity & community health
Developing HI capacity for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment; facilitating networking among laboratories to enhance health facilities' capacity to ensure quality service; and empowering communities by promoting health education, facilitating behavioural change, and supporting mobilisation.
Step 02
Health-training curricula
Influencing, reviewing, and enriching existing health-training curricula at all levels and institutions to accommodate health-informatics modules; and supporting their delivery to all health trainees and trainers.
Step 03
Training modules for the sector
Developing and conducting training modules for health-care service training institutions, professionals, executives, policymakers, and regulators.
Step 04
Practicums, internships & case studies
Developing and conducting HI practicums, internships, case studies, and experiments for health-care service providers, professionals, practitioners, and health-training institutions to test and validate research outputs.
Step 05
Graduate-level training
Conducting training at graduate level. HIRI is also a platform for training and research in specialised PhDs and Postdocs for health-care professionals and practitioners leading to degree awards by Makerere University and collaborating universities.