Joint PhD agreement entered with Makerere University
On 25 May, Uppsala University entered an agreement concerning joint so-called ‘double degree’ PhDs with Makerere University in Uganda.
The agreement extends to faculties of medicine and pharmacology, and entails recognising one another’s PhD studies programmes in order to allow for joint PhDs with shared education and examination at both universities. The PhD students will have a supervisor each from the two universities. Upon graduation, they will receive degrees from both Uppsala and Makerere University.
‘We have collaborated with Makerere University for a long time, for instance on the course on global medicine which is part of the medical training we offer’, says Mats Målqvist, who conducts research on international maternal and child healthcare at the Department of Women and Children’s Health. ‘But now, we can work towards a more structured collaboration regarding, for instance, the development of teaching methods and pedagogics and various research projects’.
‘Our first joint PhD student will study children with fever and develop diagnostic tests to determine the cause of the fever, partly to decrease the use of antibiotics. And the idea is for more PhDs within other projects to follow in short order’, Mats Målqvist says.
Anna Malmberg