| Makerere University School of Biomedical Sciences (MakSBS) | |
| Established: | 2007 |
| Type: | Public |
| Head Label: | Dean |
| Head: | Prof. Moses L. Joloba |
| City: | Mulago Hill, Kampala |
| Country: | Uganda |
| Campus: | Urban |
| Affiliations: | Makerere University |
| Pushpin Map: | Uganda Kampala |
| Coordinates: | 0.3272°N 32.6167°W |
The Makerere University School of Biomedical Sciences (MakSBS) is one of the four schools that comprise the Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MakCHS), a semi-autonomous constituent college of Makerere University, Uganda's oldest university. Between 1924 and 2007, the school was part of the Makerere University School of Medicine and constituted the pre-clinical departments of anatomy, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, microbiology, and pathology. In 2007, those departments were organized into a separate school. MakSBS provides biomedical education at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Dean: Prof. Moses L. Joloba
Website: sbs.mak.ac.ug
The school's campus is located on Mulago Hill, in north-east Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city. The location is close to the other schools of the College of Health Sciences and is adjacent to the Mulago Hospital Complex, the teaching hospital of MakCHS. The coordinates of the school are: 00° 20' 17"N, 32° 34' 38"S (Latitude:0.3381, Longitude:32.5772)
MakSBS is one of the schools that constitute MakCHS, a constituent semi-autonomous college of Makerere University. The schools of the college include:
The college is headed by a principal and a deputy principal, while each school is headed by a dean.[1]
As of September 2009, the following departments constituted MakSBS:[2]
The following undergraduate courses are offered at MakSBS:[3]
The following graduate courses are offered at MakSBS:[4]