The Kenya Medical and Research Institute(KEMRI) has penned a Ksh15 billion Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Wellcome, a United Kingdom-based charitable foundation, and the University of Oxford to reinforce the country's health research and training capacity.
According to KEMRI, in a statement on Friday, March 26, the MOU was signed at the Wellcome headquarters in London by KEMRI's Acting Director General and CEO, Elijah Songok, Chief Executive Officer of Wellcome John-Arne Røttingen, and Prof.
Gavin Screaton, who is the Head of Medical Sciences at Oxford's Nuffield Department.
Under the partnership, the University of Oxford and Wellcome Trust will support health research activities in the country in the next seven years.
