These Q&As relate to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection and pregnancy – guidance for healthcare professionals: Version 4 – 26 March 2020 and Occupational health advice for employers and pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic – 26 March 2020 published by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Royal College of Midwives and Royal College of Paediat
The Intellectual Property Management Office (IPMO), University of Nairobi, held an Intellectual Property Commercialization training for members of the Colleges’ Management and Researchers on 5th and 6th March 2020. The purpose of the training was to impart knowledge on intellectual property identification, the value of intellectual property protection, important aspects of a business plan, product development and testing, concept feasibility, branding and marketing, legal considerations, innovation incubation and how to asses a potential product for commercialization.
One of our key roles in writing this blog on health systems in Kenya is to assess and provide accurate, timely information and decision options for healthcare practitioners to be able to make the best decisions at the time in implementing what the Ministry of Health says. We analyse only credible sources of information, which in this case are the Kenya Government, World Health Organisation and scientific publications that are peer reviewed.
The office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, Innovation and Enterprise (DVC-RIE) as part of the initiative to develop a Policy Briefs Series organized a policy brief training that was conducted on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at the University of Nairobi Towers, 4th Floor, RM 402. The online registration portal was oversubscribed within 48 hours and 37 participants attended the training session, all of them from the University of Nairobi Academic staff.
The Office of the Deputy-Vice Chancellor (Research, Innovation and Enterprise) and the Graduate School conducted their second training this year for University of Nairobi PhD students titled “From Dissertation to Journal Publication” on publishing in peer-reviewed journals. This was done in Chandaria Auditorium on the 6th floor of the UoN Tower and was held on the 13th February 2020.
The office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor Research Innovation and Enterprise (DVC RIE) hosted three (3) staff from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) who were in Kenya under staff exchange programme on the 29th of January 2020.
Kenya Education Network (KENET) has made an open Call for Proposals for research and innovation mini-grants. Prof Meoli Kashorda, Executive Director KENET said that he would therefore like to draw our attention to this call to be awarded to university faculty teams that are members of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) in priority academic areas of computer science, computational modelling (and BIG data in STEM areas), engineering and educational technology (EduTech).
The University of Nairobi was honored to host the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) Second Biennial Conference on the 18th-20th of November 2019. The conference dubbed “Africa and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Defining a Role for Research Universities”. This happened at the University towers. The two-day international conference was attended by over 220 participants from all over the world, with a great number of the participants being from ARUA member universities.
The African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), in partnership with University of Nairobi, will host an international conference and workshops on 18-20 November 2019 under the theme “Africa and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Defining a Role for Research Universities”.
Effective usage of data, anywhere offers a fresh and effective way of providing real time information on any institution or entity. Proper and effective use of research data enables institutions to objectively and accurately track performance as well as make accurate strategic affirmations about any institution’s capacity.
Without a sound research activities data, strategic affirmations and attempts at evaluating performance remains general statements that are rarely backed up with reliable consistent data.
