KEMRI 40th ANNIVERSARY

FORE WORD

Chairman, KEMRI Board of Management

Allow me to congratulate KEMRI as we mark the 40th Anniversary celebrations. Let me also congratulate the Organizing Committee for ensuring that the 10th KEMRI Annual Scientific & Health (KASH) Conference is successful under the theme of the conference is “Towards Sustainable Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Kenya: utilization of research evidence through multi-sectorial collaboration”. For the last ten years the KEMRI Annual Scientific and Health conference has grown steadily as a forum that serves to promote health science through dialogue and exchange among scientists, health practitioners, policy makers and development partners. Proceedings of these conferences have continued to contribute to development in the health sector and the national discourse on Universal Health coverage (UHC)….READ MORE

The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) is ranked the top health research institution in Africa because of health research output, according to the authoritative global information analytics giant, Scimago Lab.The Institute out performs its contemporaries, the Medical Research Council (MRC) of South Africa, University College Hospital of Ibadan, Nigeria and the National Medical Research Institute (NIMRI) of Tanzania in the September 2019 rankings released in by Scimago Lab in conjunction with Elsevier, a technologically-based company offering innovative solutions to improve the Scientific Visibility and Online Reputation……..

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