The Uganda Case Research Collaboration (UCRC) is a non-government organization founded by researchers from Makerere University Uganda and Case Western Reserve University, USA. It was established in 1989 as a collaboration to foster research and care in Infectious Diseases like HIV, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis and many others. The collaboration has also expanded its mandate to include Research in non-communicable diseases like cancer, nutrition like severe acute malnutrition, body composition and genomic studies.  UCRC performs observational, interventional and community-based studies with intentions of providing new knowledge on the prevention and management of diseases in Uganda and globally.