Kenya

The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service is funding a new three-year partnership that aims to benefit Kenyan women and youth farmers through participation in the school meals value chain.

The Center for Animal Health and Food Safety (CAHFS) has been awarded a seven-year, $4.99 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support veterinary services capacity-building in East Africa.

In a recent report, University of Minnesota researchers and colleagues provide an example of how community-based research collaborations can utilize embedded networks to develop adaptive responses to unexpected public health threats. 

Kieran McNulty returned to Kenya for his field work recently for the first time since the pandemic began.

The isolated Suba and Luo communities of Mfangano Island in western Kenya experience some of the highest maternal and neonatal mortality rates in East Africa. To understand why, researchers from the Center for Global Health & Social Responsibility have partnered with one of the most remote and underserved populations in the world.

Over the summer, twenty-five of Africa’s brightest emerging leaders virtually participated in an academic and leadership institute at the University of Minnesota through the Mandela Washington Fellowship, part of the Young African Leaders Initiative.

Alumna Sanda Ojiambo helps fight climate change as executive director of the Global Compact at the United Nations.

Although University of Minnesota CFANS graduate students Dorah Mkabili Mwangola and Leticia Dourado Clemente are engaged in different fields of study, they have something in common—both women discovered a passion for their respective fields almost by accident. 

It was a most unusual summer project for two students at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs—spanning two continents, 10 time zones, and an ocean—to deliver important public health information about the coronavirus pandemic to an isolated island population in Kenya.