The HIRI (nurtured from MakHIRG) aura stems from the need to connect health informatics solutions to all health services consumers — more than 40 million people — in Uganda and beyond.
Who We Are
About HIRI
Pioneering health informatics research and innovation — anchored at Makerere University, connected to society
HIRI constitutes multidisciplinary research teams of scientists, clinicians and informaticians, organised according to the nature of the health research problem and its aligned solution. Anchored at Makerere University, we provide an ideal environment for multidisciplinary research, innovation and education in health informatics — focused on the health data and technologies critical to advancing health care for all.
How we position ourselves
From scientific research to real-life health care solutions
HIRI works to close the disconnection between health informatics solutions and the people who need them — translating science into systems, evidence into policy, and partnerships into impact.
Our Mission
To translate health informatics scientific research into applied research that supports socio-transformation in health care for all — bridging research with industry and society to solve real-life problems.
Our Vision
Empirical, evidence-based, reliable, re-usable, and sustainable health informatics solutions — contextualised for Uganda and beyond, not a "one size fits all" import.
In this section
The people, partners, and opportunities behind HIRI's work
HIRI is a network — leaders, researchers, fellows, affiliates, partner institutions, donors, and the next generation we're training. Use the cards below to explore each.
Researchers
PIs, Co-PIs, Associate Experts, and fellows
Partners & Funders
Institutions, donors, and collaborators
Opportunities
Careers, training, collaboration
How we position ourselves
Translating research, bridging industry and society, grounding solutions in evidence
HIRI's role across the health informatics ecosystem is deliberate — closing the gap between scientific research and the people, services, and policies that depend on it.
Translating scientific to applied research
Moving health informatics research from the lab and the journal into applied work that supports socio-transformation in health care for all.
Bridging research with industry & society
Building the links that turn evidence into uptake — partaking, partnership, and real-life health problems solved together.
Evidence-based decision & policy-making
Supporting empirical, reliable, re-usable, and sustainable decision- and policy-making across the health sector.
Contextualising new HI solutions
Aligning health informatics solutions to Uganda's realities — avoiding the "one size fits all" culture and grounding each solution where it lands.
Get involved
Partner with HIRI, join the team, or support our research
HIRI welcomes institutional partners, funders, researchers, fellows, students, and members of the public who want to help bring health informatics solutions to the people who need them.