AMPATH Research

The AMPATH Research Program seeks to improve the health of people in Kenya and other resource limited settings, through the identification, development and dissemination of relevant and timely information on health and health care systems for use by decision makers and care providers in resource limited countries. The program began in 1990 with its first research collaboration between Indiana University, Moi University, and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and has grown to include more than 70 active studies and a network of collaborators from 20 institutions in North America, Europe, and East Africa.

Today, the research program includes a robust infrastructure for research including a system of peer research development groups to assist in the mentoring of new investigators and the development of new research, an ISO accredited laboratory, an IRB, a research and sponsored projects office, and cores in biostatistics, data management, informatics, and bioethics.

In 2024, a total of US $18.4 million in awards for research and training activities, including US $5 million in funding for new research projects and US $13.4 million in funding for continuing research projects This increases AMPATH’s cumulative total of research and training awards to approximately US$ 265 million. This funding supports research programs and projects in HIV/AIDS, oncology, hypertension and diabetes, maternal child health, adolescent health, malaria, mental health, community-based research, and data science, among many others.