Sustaining Research Excellence: Strategic Pathways for the Future of AMPATH Kenya Research

In this Global Health Grand Rounds by the Arnhold Institute for Global Health, Professor Winstone Nyandiko MBChB, MMED, MPH will draw on his experience as a pediatrician, researcher, and internationally recognized expert in pediatric HIV, along with his long-standing leadership of the AMPATH research program. At a time of significant uncertainty in global health funding, he will share strategic directions for sustaining research excellence and the partnerships, infrastructure, and mentorship that make it possible. Attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of how to build resilient research programs in Kenya and beyond. Reception: There will be a 30-minute networking with light refreshments from 11:30 am-12 pm prior to the talk. About the Speaker: Professor Winstone Nyandiko, MBChB, MMED, MPH is a Professor of Paediatrics in the Department of Child Health and Paediatrics at Moi University School of Medicine in Kenya and Executive Director of Research for AMPATH Kenya. He also serves as Senior Consultant at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital Newborn Unit. Professor Nyandiko is involved in training upcoming doctors, pediatricians, physicians, nurse-administrators, and public health specialists, and has mentored and supervised graduate students doing their masters programs in pediatrics, medicine, immunology, and public health. He also coordinates researchers across the AMPATH partnerships. His clinical and research interests include outcomes of HIV-infected children and adolescents, neonatal outcomes, and airway diseases. He has served as Principal Investigator and co-Principal Investigator on grants focused on pediatric adherence, drug resistance, medical informatics, validating tools for assessing adherence in children, the impact of disclosure of HIV status to children and adolescents, orphans’ health, and animal source food supplementation, with over 100 publications. As Executive Director of Research and Co-Director of Research at AMPATH Kenya, he manages collaborative research. In this capacity, he has helped develop the physical and human resource infrastructure for research, develops policies that facilitate research, expands access to funding opportunities, helps initiate contacts between investigators, manages conflicts among investigators, trains researchers in grant writing and ethical research practices, and mentors young researchers, among others. These activities have led to a research and training grant portfolio of over $250 million USD since 2004.