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 […]

The Africa Health Economics Study Group (AfHESG) a study group within the KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme coordinated by the Health Economics Research Unit has launched a training schedule for those interested in health economics.  AfHESG aims to build capacity in Health Economics among Africans by leveraging on peer learning through practical training across all […]

We wish to congratulate Anthony Etyang and Mainga Hamaluba who have been awarded the Associate Professor title from the University of Oxford. Anthony Etyang is a research scientist at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP), Kilifi. He is the Head of the Epidemiology and Demography within the programme, in which he plays a critical role […]

The KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme hosted various stakeholders for a discussion on Human Resource for Health (HRH) in Kenya. The meeting discussions centered on themes around health workforce production, the impact of health workforce on quality of care and health workforce governance and management. During this engagement researchers from the Programme got the opportunity […]

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 […]