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The Save the Mothers (STM) Program offers a Master of Public Health Leadership (MPHL) to working professionals from a wide range of disciplines and not only the health discipline. Save the mothers East Africa hosts the MPHL at Uganda Christian University (UCU), Mukono.
The MPHL started at UCU in 2005 with the aim of training multi-disciplinary professionals and contribute to improve maternal and child health in developing countries.
Save the Mothers was created when Dr. Jean Chamberlain Froese, a Canadian obstetrician/gynecologist from McMaster University, was confronted with mothers in need in Uganda.
In partnership with other like-minded groups and individuals.
“This is not a woman’s issue. This is a development issue.”
That universal access to quality maternal care in pregnancy and childbirth is a basic human right.
That no mother or child should die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.
To train local leaders in the developing world to reduce maternal mortality within their own countries.
The Save the Mothers (STM) Program offers a Master of Public Health Leadership (MPHL) to working professionals from a wide range of disciplines and not only the health discipline. Save the mothers East Africa hosts the MPHL at Uganda Christian University (UCU), Mukono.
The MPHL program started at UCU in 2005 with the aim of training multi-disciplinary professionals and contribute to improve maternal and child health in developing countries.
Today Save the mothers team has set off from Mirembe Hall, UCU to Amolatar district in Northern Uganda to launch a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Amai Community Hospital as partof the 20 Years celebrations of Save the Mothers. STM team: Dr Mushin Nsubuga - ED, STMEA, Dr Jean Chamberlain, Topi & Diane Jones (funder behind the NICU). STM team is joined by UCU Communications and Public Relations Director Harriet Adong & Andrew Bugembe Comms Officer.
This self-sponsored MPHL program is open to students from all parts of theworld who have completed a Bachelor’s Degree in any field, such as law, education, politics, social sciences, clergy, media, and health care; who are passionate about maternal & child health. The MPHL is specially designed for students to continue their work while pursuing their studies. The MPHL is a two years program with two semesters each year. Each semester runs for three months with lectures delivered in a hybrid format: 70% is delivered online and 30% onsite.
At Save the Mothers we believe that a multi-disciplinary approach is needed to save some of the 342,000 mothers and four million children who die in the developing world annually due to unsafe childbirth
At Save the Mothers we believe that a multi-disciplinary approach is needed to save some of the 342,000 mothers and four million children who die in the developing world annually due to unsafe childbirth
At Save the Mothers we believe that a multi-disciplinary approach is needed to save some of the 342,000 mothers and four million children who die in the developing world annually due to unsafe childbirth
Save the Mothers To Expand Mukono General Hospital Labor suite.
Dr. Jean Chamberlain Honored
Save the Mothers marks 20 years of saving lives in Uganda
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Plot 67-173, Mukono Hill,
Bishop Tucker Road,
P.O. Box 4, Mukono, Uganda
Telephone:+256 312 350 800
Email: EADirector@savethemothers.org
Save the Mothers promotes maternal health in the developing world through education, public awareness and advocacy. Based in Uganda and North America, Save The Mothers is part of a global movement to improve the health of mothers and babies
