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"Education is the key to empowerment and development. As educators, our role is not just to transmit knowledge, but to build confidence, critical thinking skills, and a sense of responsibility in our students."
"Strive to be purpose-driven, choose to be role models and always walk the talk so as to have idealized influences. Have genuine concern for those you lead, be innovative and challenge your followers to do likewise. It is transformational leaders who will build transformational institutions."
"Women at all levels have the ability to care for and nurture others. Women bring commitment to teaching as well as supporting the learners, be they male or female. Furthermore, the presence of women in policy making leads to more balanced policies."
"Take good care of your health and wellbeing. The only way I manage is by doing exercise every day! It is very important that all parts of your body receive that flow of blood."
"I owe all that I am to my unschooled but educated parents who despite not having gone to formal school, still had the wisdom to value the education of the girl child instead of marriage, as was the case then."
"This is a drop in the ocean when we are talking about getting more women to hold leadership positions. We still have a lot of work to do as a continent to change this."
"Women in top leadership positions can inspire and mentor upcoming academics. They would also be well placed to offer advice on how to overcome challenges along the academic path. And female leaders could be in positions where they can influence policies within their institutions and at the national levels."
"What good will it profit you if you get this paper while your young family crumbles?"
"As was the case in the 2020 examination, female candidates have proportionally (in terms of percentages) performed better than the males at all levels, and have shown a lower failure rate. Even at individual subject levels, they have shown a better performance."
"Accessibility to higher education remains a big challenge particularly for students from rural Uganda."
"The purpose of this communication is to inform you of the current position of the government and to encourage you to utilize the ODel system; all institutions that have not embraced the Odel system are encouraged to to do so."
"University leaders are well placed to address the gender gaps in science, technology and innovation. However, at present, most of them are men. Women in top leadership positions can inspire and mentor upcoming academics. They would also be well placed to offer advice on how to overcome challenges along the academic path. And female leaders could be in positions where they can influence policies within their institutions and at the national levels."
"Although the study is being conducted in three African countries, the recommendations will be applicable across the continent because the challenges are often similar."
"Universities and governments need to enact deliberate policies that favour women and girls."
"Dropping age limits for applicants would help."
"When scholarships are advertised, most of them have age limits. When a woman drops out of work to raise children and then returns, she is often … above the age limit for courses."
"There are only 40 women vice-chancellors heading up the roughly 1,500 universities across Africa."
"Initiatives such as RUFORUM’s education funding support for women in higher education have also boosted the number of women with scientific skills and qualifications."
"It is a decrease from the 2020/2021 because in 2020 2021 we will recorded 5.9%. So, it is a drop of 0.6 percent, the Ugandan ratio is far below the Sub Saharan average is 9.4% and the global average which is at 38%."
"I am optimistic that Higher Education Access Program by the FAWE Uganda and Mastercard Foundation will provide an opportunity for more A-Level graduates to join higher education in Uganda."
"Institutions should consider developing approaches favouring companies to offer mentorship to students."
"Higher institutions of learning should invest in research to enable companies to offer virtual internship training to students."
"Companies should familiarize themselves with virtual systems and not give up on mentoring students since they both get a chance for someone with fresh ideas and allowing students to bring out their previous experiences."
"Matooke is a very starchy food, more so even than maize or potatoes. We realised we could do more with matooke flour than with maize, if you add matooke flour to wheat or maize flour, you get a better product. With its nutrients it can be used as an alternative to wheat."
"By adding value, farmers can sustainably produce bananas as a food and to increase income."
"I grew up in a family that so much cherished matooke as a food crop and as a child, I started developing a special attachment to the same. However, I later realized that there was not much literature or research done on matooke."
"Uganda is among the top five leading banana producers in the world, with a 30% estimated contribution to the world banana production."
"The establishment of BIRDC has presented to Uganda an opportunity to showcase a variety of tooke products with a unique taste and full nutritional value on the world market. The products exported are branded in such a way that promotes our country and culture on the international scene."
"Over 20,000 girls have gained access to education. Without, 20,000 plus would have gone another way. FAWE has impacted over 15,000 girls to get integrated into science, mathematics and technology – or engineering for that matter. FAWE has picked girls everybody else has dropped."
"My grandfather, like other Africans of his time, used traditional medicine to treat several ailments. As children, we would be given baths in an extract made from the leaves of the omwoloola tree (Entada abyssinica) to treat skin infections, among other conditions."
"Many of the traditional medicines are scientifically sound treatments. Even the large pharmaceutical companies are picking them from here to be developed into drugs, such as the Ugandan greenheart tree (Warbugia ugandensis), extracts of which have been used to treat coughs and malaria."
"What we are promoting is standardization; to develop the right dose and delivery method for safety and effectiveness. This will also support the development of our economy, because we would get World Health Organization certification for export."
"...my professional interest in traditional medicine was inspired by an eczema rash on my feet that left patches of black and white on my body when I was a university student."
"I feel great that I am in lead of a multi-skilled team of scientists: medical doctors, pharmacists, chemists, laboratory technologists, botanists, sociologists … as principal investigator into a natural formulation used by our communities for over 20 years against viral challenges."
"I don't have those emotional stories. I did not face challenges as such... God planned my story well."
"In science, you are dealing with facts. You prove them or dispute them, not the complicated stories of wars that happened before we were born."
""From Standard One, dad gave us over 100 mathematical numbers to solve every holiday. That is how we got used to mathematics"."
""Finding scientific solutions to key problems affecting society, like maternal and infant mortality, malnutrition among mothers, children, and people living with HIV, is the most beneficial research one can ever do"."
""The natural products industry in Africa has existed since time immemorial, but we need to rethink how to make things better. When you go through Kampala streets, many people are packaging in polythene and others. So we need to rethink and find a way of getting away with this polythene and standardize our products"."
""I accepted without hesitation because I trust myself and have the confidence that I can do anything and deliver appropriately"."
"If it's time for work or study, be serious, be the best. Then go out, dance, have fun-enjoy life to the fullest"
"I did not have much vision, I did not even look up to something because I did not have hopes of going to secondary school, so how could I have a dream when I was not seeing any future."
"I can describe my background as simply from grass to grace."
"Dear Esteemed Bishop Stuart University Staff, and the general public, I greet you all in the mighty name of Jesus."
"It's been an enriching experience and a great honor serving Bishop Stuart University community with you, esteemed Staff and friends."
"With unemployment, poor feeding, diabetes, hypertension linked to stress, erectile disfunctions are on the increase in Uganda, that's why the people go for this plant."
"In Uganda more than 15 million students and higher education institutions were affected by COVID-19."
"It was evident that there was a lot of unpreparedness across the country."
"When lockdown came, three-quarters of private higher education institutions were unable to pay their staff salaries."
"Most students accessed their learning materials on their mobile phones. Zoom, Microsoft, Skype, Moodle and Google Classroom were among the most common platforms used for e-learning. Students from 15 to 25 years of age were eager to use online learning. “Even if COVID-19 remains, we will have it easier to transit to online with new students."
"We need to rebrand courses and be ready to run joint programmes."
"Ugandan health workers are heroes who do the work done by five people elsewhere. They take no breaks."
"The medical field was such that women could only be nurses or something else along these lines, but not doctors."
""We will focus on ensuring the WMA (world medical association ) becomes more relevant to poor countries by addressing issues that national medical associations and the health of people in such countries."Margaret on her vision after being appointed WMA president in 2013"
"In the medical profession, my achievement shows that women can not only be doctors who can make a difference but they can also be leaders in the medical profession, internationally at that."
"“I told myself if I want to do good clinical research I need to be a good physician. And to be a good doctor meant I needed to go back for more training.”"
"We noticed a lot of women were lacking the soft skills, things like management, leadership, budgeting. In addition to those things, mentors talk about the different strategies they used to advance their career.”"
"“So we had senior women scientists speak to the junior women about the obstacles unique to women,” she says. “And that’s how I came to apply for the TDR grant.”"
"had a mentorship programme in place,” she says, “but it wasn’t very strong or well publicized"
"Despite progress, youth with disabilities still face barriers to fully participating in society, including accessing education and leadership growth opportunities like YALI fellowships. From online applications lacking accessibility features to prohibitive technology costs, hurdles restrict inclusion at every step."
"Through celebrating diverse experiences, the program can create welcoming environments where all young African leaders thrive. I am committed to ensuring no youth is left out of this transformative opportunity due to identity, ability or circumstances.”"
"Overcoming a speech and language disability, I have emerged as a powerful advocate for disability rights in Uganda. The YALI Fellowships transformed my life, nurturing my personal growth and empowering me to harness my strengths."
"With newfound confidence and honed public speaking skills, I have championed increased educational and employment opportunities for persons with disabilities."
"My efforts have yielded significant progress, including expanding affirmative action slots for disabled students at public universities, introducing a scholarship scheme for disabled students at Makerere University Business School, and securing employment for disabled individuals at MUBS."
"I liked the children and the mothers. Children are special. When they are unwell, they are sad. When they are better, they smile. They are very honest. I thought working in pediatrics would be satisfying"
"But a deeper reason for becoming a lecturer was that as a resident I was involved in teaching medical students, and I loved it."
"As a medical student I remember being timid when no one was available to help me in the wards. As a resident I looked for these kinds of students, so I could give them an opportunity to learn. I was able to be there for them because I know that it can be a bit frightening if there's no one to help you."
"the way I teach is to always ask students questions as opposed to giving them information. I always challenge them to think. I noticed that the students in my firm did very well in my area. Some of them came back for postgraduate training in pediat"
"Even then I wanted standards to help us in assessing the students. I wanted all of us to have something look at as we examined the students to make our evaluations more objective. I tried to introduce new topics that I thought were more relevant. Most of what I suggested was out of instinct. I was always looking out for the students. At meetings I would speak up for the students."
"I realized that sometimes our curriculum committee didn't listen well enough to other people. If I had it to do over, I would have involved others more and showed them that I was listening to their concerns and addressing their concerns."
"I welcome the opportunity to serve as a member of the iRAP Board to help make safer roads a reality in the African region. Many African countries combine young and burgeoning populations with rapid and poorly planned urbanisation and motorisation."
"The resulting toll of road traffic crashes and injuries is a heavy cost on communities and countries. iRAP’s work on making roads safer for all road users will be key to the region’s efforts to reduce the crippling burden of unsafe roads."
"While there might be a lot of pain and sacrifice, we certainly see joy as well. We save more patients than we lose, we get to help a lot of people, and that more than makes up for the bad times. In my field, ‘Accident & Emergency’, it is possible to see a patient turn around in a few minutes, and that makes it worth it."
"The cost of mismanaged medical services culminating in lives needlessly lost was always before me. It was more evident during my year as the Acting Head of the Accident & Emergency at Mulago National Referral Hospital. Frustrated at the many needless injuries, especially from road traffic crashes, I chose to take on trauma care and injury prevention as the focus of my career."
"That also enabled me to see beyond the immediate problems, to the bigger ones that hamper care in LMICs. In trauma, patients are still getting debilitating osteomyelitis because there is not enough saline to carry out a decent debridement (the process of removing unhealthy tissue from the body). Perhaps the surgical community needs to begin addressing upstream factors which make our surgical practice an impossible task."
"People eat either too many calories, or they eat things that have too much salt in them, or they eat things that have too much fat in them."
"A bigger problem is the value of research to society, especially to the communities from which the data is collected. Because research is conceptualized without input from African researchers and other stakeholders, it ends up being of academic value only, without taking into account how the results could help shape policy and practice."
"In addition, the fact that we are an independent research institution, rather than a government-run organisation, makes it harder to forge and maintain long-term relationships with policy makers, especially those in government."
"am affected by the dysfunction in the global health system whereby problems and their solutions are defined by ‘experts’, who don’t have any lived experiences and who have a poor understanding of the local context."
"The reason why inequalities persist is because we pay lip service to equity. The sustainable development goals (SDG) framework and its various instruments have equity as a key feature. As a result, equity is prominent in global commitments and national health policy framework – but only on paper."
"As a researcher, it is much more difficult to make a case as to why certain areas are worth addressing, when the global health community is focused largely on the few pet issues that are deemed worth funding and investigating"
"The gratification from healing someone’s pain or saving a life of someone near death is indescribable. Having said that, Africa needs scientists, tens of thousands of scientists that can help in identifying the problems that cause ill health among the continent’s people, and lasting solutions to those problems."
"They say their patients don’t have those issues and don’t want you to screen them because they don't want it to be known that the patients they care for may have an alcohol problem or depression,”"
"It’s no joke. These symptoms can become severe. If someone feels useless and hopeless, they feel they don’t need to take care of their families or their children."
"We teach them how to challenge negative thoughts. We call that unhelpful ways of thinking. We teach them to replace unhelpful ways of thinking with helpful ways of thinking.”"
"They don’t need to take the medication. They have no motivation. That’s what the depression does. They couldn’t take care of themselves and could not go to work.”"
"Given how few trained mental health providers there are in Uganda, one-on-one therapy just wouldn't be practical, "So I had the idea to have a group therapy intervention."
"We were surprised because we had thought maybe people wouldn't want to come, or maybe they wouldn't want to be seen with each other due to stigma,But they actually wanted something like this — so badly."
"My belief is that as long as there are zoonotic diseases in any one part of the world that are not attended to, the rest of the world is at risk."
"Uganda spends about sh600m annually on importing drugs such as antibiotics, anti malaria's, painkillers insulin as well as medical supplies like diagnostic, kits reagents, and packaging materials yet every year many graduates with PhDs every year. Why can't this students innovate drugs are kids and they stop importing them."
"The nurses, among other health givers at the public health facilities, should act responsibly to save lives without wasting time.A single minute wasted without attending to an emergency can lead to death."