Speaking at the CIN stakeholder co-design meeting, Dr Janette Karimi, Head, Reproductive & Maternal Health, Ministry of Health Kenya, urged healthcare providers to use CIN data to inform decisions, advocate for better care, strengthen postnatal services and improve maternal and newborn outcomes.

@kemriwellcome.bsky.social is working in Kenya, Zambia and Nigeria to develop country-specific Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY) value sets. I’m pleased to share the first output: the Nigerian EQ-5D-Y-3L value set, now published. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Africa’s first standard measure for child and adolescent health: The Nigerian EQ-5D-Y-3L value set using composite time trade-off and discrete choice experiments - Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Background Nigeria has a rapidly growing child and adolescent population, yet no locally derived EQ-5D-Y-3 L utility weights (value set) exists for estimating quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) in pa...

link.springer.com

Congratulations to our Executive Director, Prof. Edwine Barasa, on his appointment to the renewed @who.int Science Council, joining 20 leading scientists globally. The Council will advise on emerging technologies,breakthroughs & high-priority health issues shaping global health. 🔗: shorturl.at/hQybK

Honoured to be appointed to the WHO Science Council, joining 20 leading scientists from around the world to help shape the future of science, research and innovation for global health. Excited about the work ahead. @kemriwellcome.bsky.social www.who.int/news/item/27...

WHO appoints 21 leading scientists to Science Council to help shape future health breakthroughs

The WHO Science Council is an advisory body established by the WHO Director-General to provide independent advice on high-priority scientific issues, emerging technologies, and advances in science and...

who.int

Fantastic to see South-South collaboration between African countries as an enabler of Evidence Informed healthcare priority setting. At the AfroHTA meeting in Morocco, Gambia presented on how they are learning from and leveraging from Ghana's experience to institutionalise HTA

The Nairobi City County Health Policy, Planning and Financing Directorate team visited @kemriwellcome.bsky.social in Kilifi and met with Executive Director, Prof. @edwinebarasa.bsky.social to discuss research collaborations in national health financing reforms and primary healthcare financing.

Check out new analysis by @edwinebarasa.bsky.social et al. Warns that as donor funding declines, many LMICs are adopting shifting costs to households, over-reliance on insurance, sidelining PHC, and weakening community health threaten equity and UHC progress. 🔗 gh.bmj.com/content/10/1...

Delighted to share our new paper on the transition from dependence to self-reliance in financing & governing African health systems! Thanks @edwinebarasa.bsky.social, Chris Atim, Yuniwo Nfor, & Eric Arthur. www.africanjhesp.org/content/arti...

Our annual report is out, and as always, I remain humbled by the excellence in science that is made possible by all the amazing colleagues @kemriwellcome.bsky.social ,our funders,collaborators, policy makers, practitioners, and communities. This year's focus is IMPACT. Read and engage!

KEMRI-Wellcome@kemriwellcome.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📖 Our KWTRP Annual Report 2025 is out! Our Annual Report showcases a year of scientific excellence, innovation, and collaboration. Discover how our research is translating into policies, stronger health systems, and healthier communities. 📖Read the full report here👉: shorturl.at/2gkKo @ox.ac.uk