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The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) is a state corporation established through the Science and Technology (Amendment) Act of 1979, (since amended to the Sciences, Technology and Innovation Act 2013), during the tenure of Nicholas Biwott as Minister of State, [1] as the national body responsible for carrying out health research in Kenya.
The Wellcome Trust is a charitable foundation focused on health research based in London, United Kingdom. It was established in 1936 with legacies from the pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome (founder of Burroughs Wellcome, one of the predecessors of GSK plc) to fund research to improve human and animal health.
In 1989, he, along with his colleagues, established a series of research projects on the immunology and clinical epidemiology of malaria at Kilifi on the coast of Kenya; these developed into an international programme, the KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, which he directed until 2014.
The KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Programme-Kenya then sponsored her doctoral degree in cellular immunology at the Open University in the UK, in collaboration with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Gitau's doctoral research investigated neurological infections in children living in malaria-endemic areas, [6] specifically, how changes in protein ...
The Kilifi County Hospital, which is also a referral hospital, serves all of Kilifi County and also supports the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, a large medical research centre collaborative between Kenya's KEMRI and the British Wellcome Trust, known for its work on malaria and bacterial and viral childhood infections. Several other ...
She later worked in Kenya as head of the Kilifi Clinical Trial Facility at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme. Lang then moved to the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, where she is currently Professor of Global Health Research in the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health.
KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya Kathryn Maitland OBE FRCPCH FMedSci is a British paediatrician who is professor of infectious diseases at Imperial College London , director of the ICCARE Centre at the Institute of Global Health Innovation and an Honorary Fellow at Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit, University College ...
Ifedayo Morayo Adetifa, a Nigerian paediatrician and infectious diseases epidemiologist, is the current Director General [1] of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). He was appointed [2] to this role in September 2021 by President Muhammadu Buhari [3] to replace Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu [4] who was the head of the agency since August 2016.