Ishmail Sillah, DNP, AGACNP-BC, RN, MPH, is on a mission to improve care for people who have had strokes in resource-limited settings.
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“Clinical trials are the way to test if new interventions work in humans and if they are safe and efficacious,” said Professor Abraham Siika, site leader, Moi University Clinical Research Centre. “They are also the way in which optimal dosing of medication and other interventions are determined.”
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The AMPATH family celebrated the opening of the Moi University-Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital Biobank in January by comparing it to the arrival of a much-anticipated baby.
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The 2024 AMPATH Kenya Research Retreat welcomed nearly 100 AMPATH leaders, researchers and research staff members to the journey towards the vision of “a vibrant, world-class, Kenyan-led community of researchers engaged in continuous improvement of health globally.”
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AMPATH's care and research programs, including USAID AMPATH Uzima, USAID Dumisha Afya and USAID 4TheChild attended the Kenya Medical Association Scientific Conference in Mombasa County.
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AMPATH partners have embarked on a new five-year D43 training grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) entitled “Training in HIV Implementation Science and Dissemination in Kenya (HIV-ID).”
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The AMPATH Qualitative Research Core (AQRC) offers investigators a resource for qualitative and mixed method research. Violet Naanyu, PhD, is the founder and director of the AQRC which started in 2018 as a resource for investigators.
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Professor Edwin Were has been involved with AMPATH since its inception. His contribution to the collaborative network that eventually developed AMPATH began in 1991 when he joined Moi University (MU) Faculty of Medicine.
In communities throughout western Kenya, AMPATH initiatives are supporting care, training and research to improve health by working in partnership to build public sector health systems and promote well-being.
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As Jepchirchir (Chiri) Kiplagat comes to the official end of her Fogarty Fellowship, she looks back on a year of tremendous professional growth highlighted by being first author on a publication in The Lancet HIV about improving care for people aging with HIV.
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With support from a series of new research grants, a dedicated team of AMPATH physicians and researchers aims to improve the future for children and adolescents with autism, developmental delays, and other neurological challenges in Kenya and other resource-limited areas
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Applications for the Fogarty Fellows and Scholars program for 2022-23 are now available. The Global Health Fellowship Program is a 12-month clinical research training program for post-doctorate trainees and doctoral students in the health professions in the US and post-doctorate trainees from low- and middle-income countries.
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AMPATH investigators Dr. Florence Jaguga and Jepchirchir (Chiri) Kiplagat, PhD, received prestigious Fogarty Global Health Fellowships through the Northern/Pacific Global Health (NPGH) Research Training Consortium.
Read MoreIn a quest to know more about what people in East Africa know about COVID-19, what they are doing to prevent its spread, and how it is affecting their daily lives, the East Africa International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) consortium has created a survey.
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Kenyan and North American faculty members and their colleagues involved with the AMPATH Research Network met last month in Eldoret to work collaboratively to set the partnership’s strategic research vision for the future.
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Kara Wools-Kaloustian, MD, MS, has been named co-director of research (North America) for the AMPATH partnership and director of research for the Indiana University Center for Global Health (IUCGH). In her new role, Wools-Kaloustian collaborates with Professor Winstone Nyandiko, AMPATH’s co-director of research (Kenya).
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Martha coughs as she kneels on the dirt floor to stoke the wood in the open fire pit of her inadequately ventilated one-room cooking hut.
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The Ruth Lilly Philanthropic Foundation awarded $7 million to strengthen program development and establish two endowed chairs at the Indiana University Center for Global Health for its AMPATH initiative in Kenya.
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Purdue University’s Innovation in International Development (I2D) Lab was launched in March 2015 with the announcement of seed funding for designing and testing innovative yet appropriate solutions for communities in low and middle income countries.
Read MoreAn international team of oncology research specialists led by Indiana University has been awarded a $3.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study HPV and cervical cancer in Kenyan women with HIV/AIDS.
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