The Population Health Unit at the KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, hosted civil registration process leaders and managers representing various government and non-governmental development entities in Kenya, for a two-day collaborative workshop on civil registration gaps and opportunities for improvement. Civil registration data generates vital statistics to inform policies within health and development and monitor […]

We hosted journalists from South Africa, Zambia, Rwanda, Uganda, and Kenya who visited the programme for a tour that aimed to enrich the journalists’ training experience as part of a science communication training workshop for journalists in Mombasa. The team interacted with Dr Eunice Nduati who presented on IAVI work and they toured the research […]

We hosted the Improving Hypertension Control in Rural Africa (IHCoR) NIHR Global Health Research Group meeting dubbed the Kilifi Dialogues. The meeting brought together more than 30 leading researchers from various parts of the world to discuss the landscape of hypertension research in sub-Saharan Africa.

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 part of a consultative workshop held on 23rd May 2023 in Nairobi, stakeholders from the Ministry of Health, County Departments of Health, County and Sub- County referral hospitals and research centers discussed approaches to optimize access to and use of surveillance data to inform public health planning /decision-making. Read more about the key recommendations […]

The Supporting inclusive and accountable health systems decisions in Ghana and Kenya for universal health coverage (SUPPORT-SYSTEMS) Project held a three day workshop to review the project’s progress and achievement of milestones, with colleagues from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, University of Oslo and University of Ghana. The workshop was also an opportunity to […]

A team of us from KEMRI-Wellcome Trust in Kenya, the Health Systems Collaborative in UK and collaborators from the Ariadne Labs of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health attended the International Maternal and Newborn Health Conference from 8th-11th May 2023 in Capetown, South Africa. This conference is held biannually to track progress made […]

KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP) has put in place the Gender, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policy to provide guidelines to be followed in the management of the Programme human resources to ensure consistency and compliance with the labour laws in the application of all policies across the Programme.

A brief on the framework to guide the use of mathematical modelling in evidence-based policy decision making is now available. This brief describes a framework that low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) can use to guide their strategies for building systems and structures that support generation and use of model estimates. The framework is intended to be […]