Recent global health emergencies have underscored the critical importance of robust disease surveillance systems and rapid response capacity, particularly in regions with high infectious disease burden and limited resources. Kenya serves as a regional hub for infectious disease research with diverse disease ecology including endemic, epidemic, and emerging infectious threats. Our organization has established surveillance networks, outbreak investigation capacity, laboratory partnerships, and community-based disease monitoring systems. We are conducting research on antimicrobial research on antimicrobial resistance patterns and stewardship interventions, vaccine-preventable diseases and immunization coverage, emerging zoonotic diseases and One Health approaches, respiratory pathogens including tuberculosis and pneumonia, vector-borne diseases and environmental risk factors, and healthcare-associated infections and prevention strategies. Our multidisciplinary team includes epidemiologists, microbiologists, veterinarians, entomologists, clinicians, and community health specialists. We have strong relationships with county disease surveillance coordinators, national reference laboratories, and regional health security networks. We are seeking partnerships with infectious disease research institutes, public health agencies, diagnostic companies, and global health organizations. Collaborative opportunities include genomic surveillance for pathogen tracking, effectiveness studies of prevention and treatment interventions, operational research on surveillance system strengthening, outbreak investigation and response, capacity building for field epidemiology, and policy development for health security. Our value to partners includes rapid deployment capacity, diverse disease contexts, established laboratory and diagnostic infrastructure, community trust for specimen collection and contact tracing, and engagement with policy makers for research translation.
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