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.

This year’s School Leavers Attachment Scheme (SLAS) cohort have successfully concluded.  The cohort included 9 students drawn from secondary schools in Kilifi who scored highest in aptitude tests and interviews. The 3-month attachment, which started from 1st March to 31st May, involved two-week long rotations in the HSRE, Neuro, ICT, Labs, Wards and ED departments […]

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 […]

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 […]

Data Access Sharing of Research Data KWTRP recognizes the impact that data sharing has on research such as opening new avenues of collaboration, promoting reuse and providing resources for education and training. By sharing data generated from research projects, KWTRP complies with funder, institutional and journal requirements. To ensure sharing is conducted in line with […]