{"id":2592,"date":"2026-07-01T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/152.42.220.124\/?page_id=2592"},"modified":"2026-07-15T16:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:36:15","slug":"faculty-of-health-sciences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umu.ac.ug\/new\/faculty-of-health-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty of health sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Faculty Dean<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Kizito Omona (MBChB, PhD)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: deanhealthsciences@umu.ac.ug<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Faculty of Health Sciences<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The Faculty of Health Sciences is one of ten Faculties of Uganda Martyrs University, based at Rubaga Campus, established in 2005 from the former Department of Health Sciences under Business Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main thrust of the Faculty consists in advancing knowledge and improving health sector performance through training health managers, promoters and public health specialists, offering ten programmes across Master’s, Bachelor’s, Diploma, Postgraduate Diploma and Certificate levels in health services management, public health, and health promotion today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Faculty aspires to build a critical mass of competent and responsible public health professionals, comprising a community of scholars, lecturers and students whose research and training transform healthcare systems locally and internationally. Emphasis is placed on integrity, managerial competence, and staying at the cutting edge of health management, policy, and public health research today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a research and teaching institution of Uganda Martyrs University, the Faculty was established to close Uganda’s health workforce gap, training managers, promoters and public health officials equipped to meet the country’s growing healthcare and health policy needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Faculty of Health Sciences is offered at Rubaga Campus, training health managers and public health specialists across Health Services Management and Public Health disciplines today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vision<\/strong>
To have a critical mass of competent and responsible public health professionals, health promoters, and managers of health services contributing to equitable, efficient healthcare systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mission<\/strong>
To create a health workforce with the integrity, knowledge, managerial skills and competencies needed to provide quality health services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facilities:<\/strong>
Public Health Skill Laboratory (Rubaga Campus B), Rubaga Campus Library, Moodle and ICT-based learning tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Focus:<\/strong>
Non-communicable diseases and health promotion \u2014 ongoing projects include humanizing learning environments for medical students (PI: Dr. Kizito Omona) and improving HIV viral load suppression among adolescents in Eastern Uganda (PI: Mr. David Livingstone Ejalu).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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PROGRAMME<\/th>MODE<\/th>DURATION<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Bachelor of Science in Counselling Psychology<\/td>PT\/Blended<\/td>3 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bachelor of Science in Health Promotion and Education<\/td>PT\/ Blended<\/td>3 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bachelor of Science in Public Health<\/td>PT\/ Blended<\/td>3 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Certificate in Child and Adolescent Counselling<\/td>PT\/Blended<\/td>2 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Certificate in HIV\/AIDS Counselling<\/td>PT\/Blended<\/td>2 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Diploma in Counselling Psychology<\/td>PT\/Blended<\/td>2 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Master of Public Health in Health Promotion<\/td>WKD\/Blended<\/td>2 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Master of Public Health in Population and Reproductive Health<\/td>PT\/ Blended<\/td>2 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics<\/td>FT\/blended<\/td>2 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Master of Science in Counselling Psychology<\/td>PT\/Blended<\/td>2 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Master of Science in Health Services Management<\/td>PT\/ Blended<\/td>2 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Postgraduate Diploma in Health Promotion and Education<\/td>PT\/ Blended<\/td>1 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Postgraduate Diploma in Health Service Management<\/td>PT\/ Blended<\/td>1 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Faculty of Law<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Bachelor of Laws Programme intends to provide theoretical and practical training for a wide range of careers in legal practice and related fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Business Administration & Management<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Established to bridge the gap between managerial theory and practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mother Kevin Postgraduate Medical School <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Faculty Dean Dr. Kizito Omona (MBChB, PhD) Email: deanhealthsciences@umu.ac.ug Faculty of Health Sciences The Faculty of Health Sciences is one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2592","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umu.ac.ug\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umu.ac.ug\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umu.ac.ug\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umu.ac.ug\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umu.ac.ug\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umu.ac.ug\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umu.ac.ug\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}