Chair of the Department Dr. Marianne Mureithi was featured on CNBC Africa where she spoke on how public-private partnerships are collaborating in fighting COVID-19.
View the feature here
Member of the Department and Director of KAVI-Institute of Clinical Research Prof. Walter Jaoko was a panelist at the Nation Leadership Forum on the 23rd of September 2021.
As a panelist he discussed RADA-UoN, a student Mobile App used by students to address health and wellness issues. He also reiterated that HIV remains a major concern in the continent with a third of new transmissions taking place within the 15-24 years age group.
Member of the Department and Director of KAVI-Institute of Clinical Research Prof. Walter Jaoko gave a press briefing on the 7th of December 2021 in regards to the COVID-19 Omicron variant as seen on the African Science Media Centre YouTube Page.
In this briefing, Professor Jaoko gave an overview of COVID-19, the variants of concern including the recently discovered Omicron variant.
Member of the Department Prof. Omu Anzala made a television appearance on KTN on the 7th of December 2021 to discuss the Omicron COVID-19 variant concern around the world. He went into a detailed explanation of how variants in viruses occur through mutations
The Department of Medical Microbiology as part of the Faculty of Health Sciences has access to the library named Medical Library-located at the Kenyatta National Hospital along Ngong Road and provides services to undergraduate, postgraduate students as well as faculty and other research staff.
Find more information on the Medical Library here
The department occupies two floors and includes teaching and research laboratories, clinic rooms, seminar rooms data rooms and administrative offices. The laboratory includes a level-2 tissue culture laboratory. an equipped Bacteriology, Mycology, Parasitology and Molecular Laboratory and collaborators with UNITID and KAVI-Institute of Clinical Research.
Members of the Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology will be attending the 24th International AIDS Conference from the 29th of July - 2nd of August 2022 in Montreal, Canada.
The Conference will define future research agendas, shift latest evidence to action, and chart a new consensus on overcoming the HIV epidemic as a threat to public health and individual well-being.
Find more information on this conference here
The Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology will be co-hosting a seminar with KAVI-Institute of Clinical Research (KAVI-ICR) at 10am EAT on the 17th of May 2022 on Bioinformatic Tools to Identify Mechanisms of Infection.
This seminar will be facilitated and hosted by Chair of the Department Dr. Marianne Mureithi and Senior Researcher at KAVI-ICR Dr. Robert Langa't.
Presenters including Prof. Kristina Boliden, Dr. Paulo Czarneswski and Vilde Kaldhusdal.
The University of Nairobi (UoN) will be jointly hosting a conference on Strengthening Research Ethics Capacity and Networks in collaboration with the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), The National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI), and Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH).
This conference will take place on the 24th-26th of May 2022 and the subtheme will be:
The Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology will be hosting a webinar on an MSc Project on the prevalence of Malaria and associated risk factors among febrile children under five at Banadir Hospital by Sadia Mohamed.
This webinar will be on Thursday the 12th of May 2022 at 8AM EAT. Join here
