Overview
Health-Professional Education Partnership Initiative (HEPI) -Kenya is a grant awarded to the University of Nairobi with an objective to increase capacity for a multidisciplinary workforce to design, conduct and disseminate research to inform HIV prevention, care and treatment. The targeted workforce includes undergraduate and graduate health professional students targeted to improve practice-oriented research skills training at the collaborating Kenyan Universities and their affiliated teaching hospitals. The program also provides practice-oriented quality improvement short courses for staff at the affiliated county Hospitals.
The program has three aims.
AIM 1: Enhance HIV implementation science and dissemination research capacity in Kenya
AIM 2: Increase the pipeline of young Kenyan researchers by developing and offering an innovative 10-week research elective that targets medicine, nursing and pharmacy students completing clinical undergraduate (bachelors) degrees at the 4 universities.
AIM 3: Improve quality of care and evidence-based approaches at teaching hospitals by strengthening linkages between the 4 academic institutions, the Kenya MOH, and county health departments.
