Conducting Health, Biomedical, and Public Health Research for Human Health
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About KEMRI
KEMRI is a State Corporation established in Kenya in 1979 through the Science and Technology (Repealed) Act, Cap 250 of the Laws of Kenya operated under the Science Technology and Innovation Act, 2013 as the national body responsible for carrying out research in human health in Kenya. Currently, KEMRI operates under Legal Notice No. 35 of March 2021.
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Our mandates are to:
- Conduct health, biomedical, and public health research for human health.
- Build human health research capacity.
- Collaborate and partner with other local and international research bodies and institutions in carrying out human health research and capacity building.
- Advice the responsible Ministry in matters pertaining to health research policies and priorities.
KEMRI mandates are to:
- Undertake scientific and technological innovation as well as in the discovery, transmission and enhancement of knowledge and simulate the intellectual life in the economic, social, cultural, scientific, and technological development.
- Establish incubation centres for innovation, and link research, policy makers, academia and industry in the health products value chain.
- To do all such things that are necessary or desirable to carry its functions.