While Makerere University was established in 1922, and the Medical School created a few years later, preventive medicine was introduced as an academic discipline of health sciences in the medical school’s Department of Preventive Medicine. By 1974, the department had doubled in size and scope and eventually evolved into the Institute of Public Health. In 2000, the Institute was granted full autonomy and it became known as Makerere University Institute of Public Health (MUIPH), with five departments namely; Health Policy Planning and Management, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Disease Control and Environment Health, Community Health and Behavioural Science and Regional Centre for Quality Health - click here for details.