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Kenya Medical Research Institute

Kenya Medical Research Institute

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Sep 28, 2026

Richard MortonGUEST
6:07
There were a huge number of stakeholders that we had to get involved in terms of Ministry of Health and lots of approvals and things on the ground as well that we needed to get set up.
Richard MortonGUEST
6:16
But then from there, one of the reasons that we chose Khalifi was that the Kenyan Medical Research Institute, which is known as KEMRI and the KEMRI Welcome Partnership, have a very well-established demographic surveillance system in place in Khalifi, which they've used for epidemiological research, particularly around infectious diseases.
Richard MortonGUEST
6:37
for quite a long period of time.
Richard MortonGUEST
6:39
That provided an opportunity to utilize existing work by collaborating with them, rather than having to set up a demographic surveillance system from square one, which would be, as you say, a huge amount of work.
Mark KaigwaGUEST
24:50
I think there's a center in South Africa called, I believe, Caprisa.
Mark KaigwaGUEST
24:54
In Kenya, we have the Kenya Medical Research Institute, KEMRI.
Mark KaigwaGUEST
24:59
And then also, again, you have Uganda, even West Africa.
Mark KaigwaGUEST
25:04
You have basically all these pockets where scientists come are working tremendously hard across multiple places, including in biotech, you know, because right now, you know, the global climate specialists are telling us that the African continent should be bracing itself for potentially El Nino at extreme and adverse weather effects.

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