The Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System (KHDSS) housed within the Epidemiology and Demography Department (EDD) of the KEMRI Kilifi Wellcome Trust Research Programme celebrated two decades of its existence. The event was an opportunity for the KHDSS team to reflect on the KHDSS values, strengths and connect with the future. The event was attended […]

Health Economics Research Unit (HERU) based at The KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, in collaboration with Africa Health Technology Assessment Network (AfroHTA) and Africa Health Economics Association (AFEA), hosted a webinar on African country experiences with institutionalizing Health Technology Assessment (HTA).  HTA is an approach to evidence-based priority setting to provide a mechanism for making choices […]

As this year marks 10 years of the Clinical Information Network (CIN), we took time to reflect on the engagement between the paediatricians and the Programme’s research team during the Kenya Paediatric Association (KPA) 2023 Conference. The goal of this forum was to build, sustain and deepen respectful relationships and mutual understanding between paediatricians and […]

The communications team attended the Public Communication for Science and Technology Conference 2023 in Netherlands. The team joined the Africa Asia Communications Forum Network in a session where they presented on the opportunities and challenges of setting up and running professional SciComm networks. The forum brings together communications specialists from Wellcome-funded Africa and Asia-based research […]

The KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme hosted a career webinar on pathways and opportunities for a career in vaccine research and development, the webinar hosted students from countries across the African continent with Prof. George Warimwe deputy director at the Programme together with Prof. Teresa Lambe from the University of Oxford as the guest speakers […]

This first evaluation of the vaccine in humans published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases was done in the United Kingdom with the aim of assessing the safety and immune response generated by a single shot of the ChAdOx1 RVF vaccine. A total of 15 volunteers were recruited into the study and three immunised with a […]

We hosted the 2nd Advanced workshop for Bioinformatics workflows between 27th -31st March with 28 participants from Kenya, Uganda, DRC-Congo, Malawi and Nigeria with support from NGS Academy for the Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative.

The NeoSep1 trial team hosted a site initiation visit which included a training conducted by the Trial Management Group that includes St. George’s Hospital in London and the UK Medical Research Council’s Clinical Trial Unit. NeoSep1 trial is a randomised controlled trial to improve antibiotic treatment for babies.

Congratulations Dr Nchafatso Obonyo on winning the Africa Top 40 Under 40 award in the Science Category! The award is the culmination of work that started and continues to be collaboratively supported by KWTRP/IDeAL and the Critical Care Research Group as well as the Mbale Clinical Research Unit in Mbale, Uganda.

The Science for Africa Foundation (SFA Foundation) launched the Developing Excellence in Leadership Training and Science in Africa (DELTAS Africa II) on 14th March 2023 in Nairobi Kenya. DELTAS Africa II brings together 14 grantees from across the continent including The Initiative to Develop African Research Leaders (IDeAL), based at the KEMRI – Wellcome Trust […]