School of Public Health

SPH Changemaker Launches New Curriculum to Drive Public Health Awareness in Uganda

Monday, 01 June 2026

PH-CARES Changemakers provides UofM SPH students with $750 seed grants to tackle pressing health challenges locally and globally. This initiative gives student innovators the funding they need to kick-start real-world public health solutions. 

Nizeyimana came to study here at the University of Memphis after growing up in a Ugandan Refugee Camp, where he saw firsthand how his community there could benefit from access to public health education.  

Uganda currently hosts approximately 1.96 million refugees and asylum-seekers with the majority fleeing conflict in South Sudan, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). 

His newly launched eight-month program directly tackles community displacement vulnerabilities by training youth in public health, nutrition and entrepreneurship training.  

The University of Memphis School of Public Health is proud to see our Changemakers initiative empowering future public health leaders to deliver life-changing public health solutions to communities around the world. 

Wonderful work, Jeanbaptist Nizeyimana! 

Learn more about the PH-Changemakers Initiative, click here.