Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) is a

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in Dar es Salaam,

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. It is accredited by the

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(TCU).

Location

As of June 2018, the university had two campuses: * The Main Campus along United Nations Road, in Upanga West, in the city of Dar es Salaam. * The Mloganzila Campus, approximately west of

Muhimbili Hospital Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) is a public university in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It is accredited by the Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU). Location As of June 2018, the university had two campuses: * The M ...

, along the A-7 Highway. This campus hosts a 571-bed, start-of-art teaching hospital. * The university maintains a teaching facility in the town of

Bagamoyo Bagamoyo, is a historic coastal town founded at the end of the 18th century, though it is an extension of a much older (8th century) Swahili settlement, Kaole. It was chosen as the capital of German East Africa by the German colonial administra ...

, about , by road, north-west of Dar es Salaam. * The university also maintains a student hostel located along Chole Road, Masaki, in Dar es Salaam.

History

The Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences traces its origins to 1963, when it opened as ''Dar es Salaam Medical School''. The school became the faculty of medicine of the

University of Dar es Salaam The University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) is a public university in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It was established in 1961 as an affiliate college of the University of London. The university became an affiliate of the University of East Africa (UEA) in ...

, in 1968. In 1976 the Faculty of Medicine was incorporated into Muhimbili Hospital to form the Muhimbili Medical Centre (MMC). The Parliament Act No. 9 of 1991, upgraded the faculty to a college of Dar es Salaam; the Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences (MUCHS). In 2000 the Government by Act of Parliament dis-established MMC and created two closely linked, but autonomous public institutions: MUCHS and the Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH). Over the years MUCHS made significant achievements in increased student enrollment and development of several new academic programmes. The Parliament Act No. 9 of 1991 that established MUCHS was repealed in 2005. In 2007, MUHAS was established by Article 1 of the Charter of Incorporation, in line with the recommendations of the Tanzania Commission of Universities.

Research

Research features prominently in the institutional focus of the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences. The university is engaged in over 40 major research endeavours. They range from ‘vitamin trials among the children of HIV-infected women’ to an examination of ‘health insurance in developing countries’ and from a study of the ‘social and contextual predictors of male heterosexual risk behavior in Africa’ to one that looks at ‘the effect of multivitamin supplements on clinical and immunological response in childhood tuberculosis’. Research partners include the

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and several European and American universities.

Programmes

Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences offers programmes in Medicine, Ophthalmology, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing, Public Health, Traditional Medicine, Laboratory and Allied Sciences at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences
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Notable faculty members

Julie Makani Julie Makani (born 1970) is a Tanzanian medical researcher. From 2014 she is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow and Associate Professor in the Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Scienc ...

, haematologist

References

External links

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Southern African University
{{Authority control Public universities in Tanzania Universities in Dar es Salaam Educational institutions established in 1963 1963 establishments in Tanganyika