COVID-19 in Kenya

Yesterday the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was reported in Kenya. According to the Kenya Ministry of Health, the patient is stable and receiving care at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi. CDC continues to work with the Ministry of Health to support surveillance and prevention activities.

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Kussin Receives Duke University Honor

Professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Duke University, Peter Kussin, MD, typically spends four months per year working with the AMPATH partnership in Eldoret, Kenya, caring for some of the sickest patients while training the next generation of Kenyan and North American physicians and doing research focused on strengthening care of non-communicable diseases.

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Stanford University Joins AMPATH Consortium

The AMPATH partnership welcomes Stanford University as the newest member of the AMPATH Consortium of North American academic health centers.

The team from Stanford is already building connections with the family medicine team working in Webuye, Kenya, and looking forward to increased faculty and trainee engagement.

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People of AMPATH: John Oguda, Managing Director, IIGH-Kenya

AMPATH welcomes back John Oguda as the managing director for IIGH-Kenya, the Kenyan NGO that supports AMPATH Consortium operations in Kenya. In this role, Oguda has responsibility for planning and directing financial and administrative activities for IIGH-K by managing budgetary, financial, personnel and administrative functions.

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