Condensed from the news published on the college website, newest first.

September 2026

Dr. Erick Luta represented SFUCHAS at the World Congress on Public Health 2026 in Cape Town (6–9 September), presenting a comparative study on integrating palliative care into public health systems in Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda.

March 2026

Dr. Nicole Mistarz, an intern from the University of Copenhagen, spoke at the weekly symposium on 4 March about managing non-communicable diseases in Denmark. Discussion covered strengthening primary health care, hypertension and diabetes registries, and growing the health workforce.

An NIMR and COSTECH assessment team visited the SFUCHAS Institutional Review Board from 9 to 12 March.

January 2026

Dr. Raymond Lughali, a 2025 graduate, was selected to represent SFUCHAS at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE) for clinical practice; the two institutions have collaborated for more than five years.

A University of Bologna delegation visited from 11 to 16 January. The visit covered preparations for the BRIDGE project launch in Dar es Salaam, planned for March 2026; a community disease screening in Kilombero ahead of a doctors' camp planned for mid-June 2026; visiting lectures in anaesthesiology, endocrinology and pathology; plans for a pathology laboratory in Ifakara; and continuing staff and student exchanges.

December 2025

Two research projects with SolidarMed were under way — household Kangaroo Care for low-birth-weight babies in Ifakara, and trends in sexually transmitted infections among adolescents in Ulanga — with a third, on adolescent depression and anxiety, due to start in January 2026. Four staff members began an academic visit to the University of Bologna under the Erasmus Mobility Project. A strategic meeting with the German Leprosy and TB Relief Association and Nazareth Leprosy Centre agreed six priorities, including joint research, workforce training and facility upgrades.

November 2025

The 11th Convocation was held on 13 November on the theme of digital innovation and artificial intelligence; Dr. Benatus Sambili of SolidarMed was guest of honour. The first cohort of the SFUCHAS–SolidarMed internship programme completed placements in Ulanga and Malinyi districts. A community outreach at Katindiuka Dispensary on 10 November served 110 people with blood pressure, blood glucose and BMI checks, urinalysis, first-aid education and consultations.

October 2025

SFUCHAS and St. Francis Regional Referral Hospital marked the feast of their patron, St. Francis of Assisi, together.

September 2025

A student attachment programme in community medicine with SolidarMed began on 8 September, placing five top-performing fifth-year MD students in field programmes until mid-October. Prof. Senga Pemba represented the Principal at the Managers in Training conference hosted by Kilombero Sugar Company, where SFUCHAS offered support with research skills, curriculum input and publication.

August 2025

Ally Mwambela, an SFUCHAS MD student, won the research category at the MUHAS Win and Learn academic event. On 21 August a stakeholder meeting in Haydom, Mbulu, marked the results of the Safer Birth Bundle of Care project, whose reported outcomes include fewer perinatal and maternal deaths; the second phase has expanded to five regions.

June 2025

The 4th SFUCHAS Annual Scientific Conference was held in Ifakara (pre-conference 23 June; conference 25–26 June) with more than 300 participants and over 53 peer-reviewed abstracts. Community screening ahead of the conference reached 247 people in Kilombero, and the Dr. Ntuli Kapologwe Primary Healthcare Award was launched.