Other Wellcome Trust activities in Kenya

The Wellcome Trust is committed to spending some £80 million on health research in low- and middle-income countries between 2008 and 2012. In Africa, the Trust supports Major Overseas Programmes in Kenya, Malawi and South Africa.

We also support the Health Research Capacity Strengthening initiative, which aims to strengthen key academic research and improve the use of health research in evidence-based decision and policy making in Kenya and Malawi. This is implemented in Kenya by the Trust-supported Consortium for National Health Research.

The Trust funds several other activities in Kenya. For example, the African Population and Health Center in Nairobi conducts policy-relevant research on the population and health issues facing sub-Saharan Africa. As part of the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA), the Center has received a grant from the Trust's African Institutions Initiative to support research based training for local researchers. Elsewhere, a team of researchers from the UK's University of Glasgow and the KEMRI-CDC International Emerging Infections Program is studying the links between animal and human health in the Asembo Bay region of Kenya, focusing on disease transmitted from animals to humans such as Influenza A and Rift Valley fever.

See the map of Kenya.