ALERT – Action Leveraging Evidence to reduce perinatal Mortality and morbidity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Medical College in East Africa is part of the Faculty of Health Sciences Aga Khan University East Africa, The college works with the School of Nursing and Midwifery and Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, and Aga Khan Hospital in Dar es Salaam to build a new academic community. This community provides outstanding health professional education, build strong programmes of research that support graduate student and postdoctoral training and provide programmes and services that are relevant to and have an impact across East Africa.

AKU East Africa is part of an over one hundred years history of service to the East African community through the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) that includes a broad range of community development and healthcare delivery services across East Africa. In addition, we are transforming the quality of health care in the region via the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi where we are building a Faculty of Health Sciences campus closely integrated with the broader health care delivery system of the AKDN. The university is focused on building quality public-private partnerships with government that serve to increase quality and access and provides our students with relevant learning environments. At the medical college East Africa, we conduct research, teaching and run several programs at masters level.

Team Members:

• Hussein Kidanto, Country Principal Investigator
• Muzdalfat Abeid
• Tumbwene Mwansisya