THE KEMRI-WELLCOME TRUST: On The Frontline of Ground Breaking Research PDF Print E-mail

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  • The Wellcome Trust has been supporting work in Kenya since pre-independence. It begun in 1989 with two projects about malaria and has grown from a project to a program which now has about 800 staff. The work of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme is to carry out research at the highest international scientific and ethical standards on major causes of morbidity and mortality in Africa. TIt aims to build strong and sustainable internationally competitive, national and regional research capacity and to work in a way that facilitates integration and cross fertilisation of scientific disciplines. To conduct intervention research and basic research in parallel as well as having a direct input to local and international health policy. The Programme is committed to capacity strengthening within Kenya and the East African region. The programme has developed a core group of productive researchers who hold around £25 million of competitively awarded grants and contribute high-quality papers to the scientific literature. All work is designed to generate useful information that can inform the delivery of healthcare within existing structures. More broadly, the Programme aims to gather insights that could inform the delivery of medical care across sub-Saharan Africa.
 

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