School of Health, Life Sciences and Bioengineering
Intelligence applied to human life
Health is where artificial intelligence will save the most African lives soonest, and where the consequences of getting it wrong are least forgiving. This School trains a new class of clinical, engineering and scientific professionals who can build and validate diagnostic models, manufacture medicines and devices on the continent, and run precision public health at population scale. It also anticipates the biomanufacturing and brain and machine disciplines now being formally established in leading catalogues. Every clinical and regulated programme in this School is designed with its professional council from the first draft, carries the statutory practice hours in full, and treats the regulator as a design partner rather than an examiner at submission.
- Departments
- 8
- Degree programmes
- 15
- Credit units
- 2,006
- Award levels
- 6
Source: Curriculum Compendium, Path One, page 421.
Departments and degrees
8 departments, 15 degree programmes
Every degree below is published in the Curriculum Compendium with a full term-by-term and block-by-block curriculum, programme learning outcomes and an employment thesis.
Department of Biomedical Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health
Clinical machine learning, medical imaging, health information systems, interoperability and telemedicine.
- BSc (Hons)FU/HLB/BDHI · 3 years (6 semesters)
Bachelor of Science in Digital Health and Health Informatics
132 credit units · Campus · Hybrid
View degree - MScFU/HLB/MBAI · 18 months (3 semesters)
Master of Science in Biomedical Artificial Intelligence
90 credit units · Campus · Online · Hybrid
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Department of Bioengineering and Biomanufacturing
Medical devices, tissue and synthetic biology, vaccine and biologics manufacture, and laboratory automation.
- BEng (Hons)FU/HLB/BBME · 4 years (8 semesters)
Bachelor of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Devices
176 credit units · Campus · Hybrid
View degree - BSc (Hons)FU/HLB/BBTB · 4 years (8 semesters)
Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing
176 credit units · Campus · Hybrid
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Department of Precision Public Health
Epidemiology, biostatistics, genomic surveillance, outbreak intelligence and health systems science.
- BSc (Hons)FU/HLB/BPPH · 3 years (6 semesters)
Bachelor of Science in Precision Public Health and Epidemiology
132 credit units · Campus · Hybrid
View degree - MPHFU/HLB/MPHD · 18 months (3 semesters)
Master of Public Health in Digital Epidemiology
90 credit units · Campus · Online · Hybrid
View degree - MScFU/HLB/MBGM · 18 months (3 semesters)
Master of Science in Bioinformatics and Genomic Medicine
90 credit units · Campus · Online · Hybrid
View degree - MPHFU/HLB/MPHS · 18 months (3 semesters)
Master of Public Health in Public Health Systems
90 credit units · Campus · Hybrid
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Department of Nursing, Midwifery and Clinical Informatics
Clinical practice augmented by decision support, remote monitoring and digital care pathways.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Computational Drug Discovery
Medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, regulatory science and computational molecule design.
- BPharm (Hons)FU/HLB/BPCD · 4 years (8 semesters)
Bachelor of Pharmacy with Computational Drug Discovery
176 credit units · Campus
View degree - MScFU/HLB/MPHM · 18 months (3 semesters)
Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
90 credit units · Campus · Hybrid
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Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences
Human biology, molecular and cellular science, laboratory diagnostics and biomedical research methods, taught with computational and intelligent analysis throughout.
Open now · First accreditation wave
Programmes accepting applications
Showing 15 of 15 programmes
Bachelor of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Devices
African hospitals are full of donated equipment that no longer works, and the reason is almost never the technology. It is the absence of biomedical engineers who can install, calibrate, repair and eventually design equipment for local cond...
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisBachelor of Pharmacy with Computational Drug Discovery
Uganda imports the overwhelming majority of its medicines and manufactures a narrow band of generics, while substandard and falsified products remain a persistent public health threat. The pharmacist of the next twenty years must therefore ...
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisBachelor of Science in Biomedical and Molecular Sciences
The pandemic showed what it costs a continent to manufacture almost none of its own biological products and to depend on distant laboratories for diagnosis and research. Biomedical and molecular science is the foundation beneath diagnostics, biomanufacturing, drug development and modern clinical ...
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisBachelor of Science in Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing
Biomanufacturing has been named a strategic discipline in every major industrial catalogue revision of the past three years, and the pandemic demonstrated with brutal clarity what it costs a continent to manufacture almost none of its own b...
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisBachelor of Science in Digital Health and Health Informatics
Uganda's health system now runs on district health information systems, electronic medical records, laboratory and logistics systems and a growing layer of clinical algorithms, and it is staffed at the technical level almost entirely by peo...
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisBachelor of Science in Health Data and Clinical Informatics
Health Data and Clinical Informatics is published in the Complete Programme Directory as part of the second accreditation wave: 176 competency units over 4 years (8 semesters), sited in the Health Data and Clinical Informatics department. The full curriculum volume is in preparation for submission to the National Council for Higher Education, so the term and block structures, learning outcomes and employment thesis are not yet published here.
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisBachelor of Science in Nursing (Global Nursing Practice)
Nursing (Global Nursing Practice) is published in the Complete Programme Directory as part of the third accreditation wave: 176 competency units over 4 years (8 semesters), sited in the Nursing and Clinical Practice department. The full curriculum volume is in preparation for submission to the National Council for Higher Education, so the term and block structures, learning outcomes and employment thesis are not yet published here.
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisBachelor of Science in Nursing with Clinical Informatics
Nursing remains among the largest absolute job creators in the world and one of the few professions with guaranteed international demand. Uganda trains competent nurses; what it does not yet train is nurses who can lead the digital transfor...
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisBachelor of Science in Precision Public Health and Epidemiology
East Africa is the world's most consequential theatre for outbreak detection and response, and its public health workforce is overwhelmingly trained at postgraduate level, leaving districts staffed by people improvising with spreadsheets. T...
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisDoctor of Philosophy in Health Data Science
Doctoral research at the intersection of medicine, biology and computation, anchored in African clinical and population data. The programme requires peer reviewed publication before submission, a translation statement, and evidence that the...
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisMaster of Public Health in Digital Epidemiology
A Master of Public Health built for a surveillance environment that is now digital, genomic and real time. It trains population health leaders who can build and run modern surveillance and modelling capability rather than commission it, and...
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisMaster of Public Health in Public Health Systems
Uganda's public health workforce is overwhelmingly trained to deliver programmes rather than to design, finance and lead the systems those programmes run inside, and the result is districts staffed by capable people improvising with spreadsheets. Public health systems is the discipline of making a ...
Includes 0 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisMaster of Science in Bioinformatics and Genomic Medicine
African genomes are the most diverse on earth and the least represented in reference databases, which means that precision medicine developed elsewhere routinely misclassifies African patients. Closing that gap requires African bioinformati...
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisMaster of Science in Biomedical Artificial Intelligence
Clinical machine learning is being deployed across African health systems faster than it is being validated, and models trained on distant populations are being applied to Ugandan patients with almost no local evidence. This programme produ...
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisMaster of Science in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Uganda imports the overwhelming majority of its medicines and manufactures a narrow band of generics, and the constraint on changing that is expertise: too few professionals who can design, run and assure pharmaceutical manufacturing to the standard that regulators and export markets require. ...
Includes 0 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisComing in future intakes
Planned, not yet accredited
These programmes are designed but will not open until the relevant accreditation wave is complete. We list them so the pipeline is visible, not to imply you can apply.
- BSc Health Data and Clinical Informatics · Future intake
- BSc Biomedical and Molecular Sciences · Future intake
- MPH Public Health Systems · Future intake
- MSc Pharmaceutical Manufacturing · Future intake