As a young scientist, and a trained molecular epidemiologist, I have developed a keen research interest in Mycobacterial diseases over the past decade.

Understanding the immune control of HPV-mediated cervical precancer; from the bench to the bedside—Ademola Aiyenuro, PhD in Pathology Before Cambridge I was born in Kano state, the Northern part of Nigeria.…

My name is Mark Owusu and I am a Ghanaian PhD student in the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Cambridge and am being supervised by Professor Caroline…

Over one billion urban dwellers live in so-called ‘slums’ in the global South and this is projected to grow to more than three billion by 2050 (UNHabitat, 2016).

Written by Dr Tabitha Mwangi, Cambridge Africa Programme Manager, University of Cambridge and published in Kenya Airways magazine Meet the medical scientist who has dedicated her life to understanding the impact…

In today’s public discourse, the term decolonization has become disconnected from its own history—the tide of anticolonial liberation movements that transformed countries across the Global South and the entire world…

Lassa fever is a viral haemorrhagic fever causing between 100,000 to 300,000 cases and an estimated 5,000 deaths a year in West Africa.

In October 2022 researchers from the MRC Biostatistics Unit travelled to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia to teach a short course on Bayesian Statistics, including a one-day workshop where Ethiopian PhD…

  In May 2021, I was selected along with my good friend and classmate, Abraham Matovu, for the elective placement in Haematology and Oncology at the University of Cambridge.

Associate Professor Arthur Kwizera is a medical doctor who has specialised in anaesthesiology and intensive care.

Following a visit of officials from Cambridge-Africa to the Uganda Cancer Institute in the wake of growing interests to re-define Global Health, the alarmingly low number of oncologists and haematologists…

Written by William Tayeebwa, Ph. D. Upon completion of my PhD in Canada in autumn 2012, I flew back to Uganda and landed in a severely understaffed Department.