In February 2024, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and University Hospitals (UH) received a $2 million gift from The Roe Green Foundation to establish a cutting-edge medical education and research center in Kampala, Uganda. The new Roe Green Medical Education and Research Building will provide a centralized facility for training, research, and healthcare collaborations.

The center will be built on the site of the Uganda Case Research Collaboration (UCRC), a nearly 40-year partnership between CWRU, UH, and key Ugandan institutions, including Makerere University, the Ministry of Health, the Joint Clinical Research Centre, the Uganda Heart Institute, the Uganda Cancer Institute, and Mulago Hospital, which donated the land.

“This gift secures a permanent home for a global health mission that has already trained more than 200 physicians and driven groundbreaking research,” said the late Dr. Robert Salata, former Chair of Medicine at UH and CWRU.

Since 1986, the UCRC has expanded its focus from HIV/AIDS to include epidemiology, biomedical engineering, cancer, and cardiovascular research, contributing over 350 peer-reviewed papers and securing $252 million in research funding. The new facility aims to bring these efforts under one roof, strengthening collaboration and accelerating medical innovation in the region.