We held a 2-day consultative meeting with our Media Advisory Group (MAG) on promoting public awareness in genome sequencing. The team shared valuable insights on how to develop engagement tools that can be used to build public understanding of genome sequencing and its impact on public health. The MAG also joined community members where we […]

Delegates from the Ministry of Health, County Departments of Health, health facilities, and academia/ research convened on 17th October 2023 for a Second Consultative Workshop on Research Data Access and Use for Public Health Decision-Making. During this Workshop, delegates discussed pathways towards implementing priority recommendations identified during a prior consultative workshop held on 23rd May […]

Celebrating World Pneumonia Day 2023 We commemorate World pneumonia Day on the 12th of November annually, a reminder that Pneumonia remains a preventable and curable disease. Despite substantial progress over recent decades, much remains to be done. WHO estimates that pneumonia affects approximately 450 million people per year globally. In 2019, Pneumonia claimed the lives […]

The KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP) convened stakeholders for a follow-up session on data access and use for public health planning and decision-making. This forum focused on discussing pathways to implementing priority recommendations generated during the first consultative workshop. The priority recommendations and additional information on data access and use for public health planning […]

In collaboration with the Ministry of Health, country surveillance focal persons and members of academia, the KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP) team worked on developing a consensus list of ranked pathogens to be prioritized for surveillance in Kenya.

KEMRI participated in this year’s annual ASK Show held in Mombasa where our team participated to show Programme research work. The team scooped 2 top awards: Best Stand in Research and Development and Best Display Services in the Health Sector & Pharmaceutical Stand. Several dignitaries toured our stand including the Botswana High Commissioner to Kenya, […]

The Bioscience Department hosted a 2-week training workshop on metagenomic next-generation sequencing sponsored by Africa-CDC. The trainees included 6 public health workers from East Africa and a research scientist/lecturer from Mombasa Technical University. Many thanks to Leonard Ndwiga, Shaban Mwangi and Kioko Mwikali who were the training instructors.

We hosted the SANTHE Consortium Research visit between 11th and 12th September 2023. Representatives from SANTHE partners (CREMER, Cameroon; Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership (BHP), Botswana; Makerere University, Uganda; CFHR, Zambia; AHRI, South Africa; KAVI-ICR and Pwani University were in attendance. The meeting focus was for SANTHE funded Masters, PhD, and Postdoctoral fellows to provide an […]