$5 Million Grant to Indiana University-Kenya Partnership

The National Institutes of Health has chosen the Indiana University-Kenya Partnership to join the Global Network for Women’s and Infant’s Health Research, according to I.U. News Bureau. The designation includes a five-year, $5 million grant to allow the Indiana University School of Medicine to study the feasibility and effectiveness of community-based health-care interventions. This five-year, $5 million grant will allow Indiana University School of Medicine and Moi University School of Medicine faculty to conduct research to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of simple, community-based health-care interventions such as protein supplementation for infants and training of traditional birth attendants in the proper care of obstetrical and neonatal emergencies. The Global Network, funded jointly by the NIH and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, conducts clinical research projects throughout the developing world. The IU-Moi University site in Eldoret, Kenya, is one of two network sites in Africa.