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Commissioning health clinic in Kiambu County.
Commissioning of health facilities supported by UON CRISS+ project in Kiambu and Kirinyaga Counties

The University of Nairobi Vice Chancellor Prof. Stephen Kiama commissioned health facilities supported by Central Province Response: Integration, Strengthening and Sustainability Project Plus (CRISSP+) in Kiambu and Kirinyaga Counties.

During the two-day mission in the two counties, the Vice Chancellor visited and commissioned 14 of the 78 sites that have been supported by the UoN CRISSP+.

Mt. kenya hiking flagging off.
Scaling Mt. kenya to raise health awareness

University of Nairobi Vice Chancellor Prof. Stephen Kiama and his Mount Kenya University counterpart Prof. Deogratius Jaganyi flagged of a group of 9 students from the two institution who were on a mission to hike Mount Kenya.

The hiking was meant to raise awareness of the O3plus project an initiative that aims at sensitizing the youth on their health and wellbeing. The O3plus is pegged on three pillars namely; Our Rights, Our Lives, Our Future.

UoN and GCA sign partnership agreement.
UoN & GCA sign KES 140 partnership

The University of Nairobi and Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA) signed a partnership agreement to scale adaptation efforts in Africa.

The signed partnership aims to support a robust pipeline of investments for resilient infrastructure in Kenya, to unlock climate finance, create green adaptation jobs and to support Kenyan entrepreneurs for scaling up sustainable adaptation business.

University of Nairobi Vice Chancellor Prof. Stephen Kiama meets a delegation from Nelson Mandela University who paid a courtesy call on him.
A delegation from Nelson Mandela University pays courtesy call on VC

A delegation from Nelson Mandela University paid a courtesy call on University of Nairobi (UoN) Vice Chancellor Prof. Stephen Kiama on Friday 1st July, 2022.

The delegation was led by Prof. André Keet, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Engagement and Transformation at Nelson Mandela University.

The team was at UoN to firm up a Memorandum of Understanding signed by the two institutions early this year and convert it into a memorandum of actions as well as explore other areas of collaboration.

Patrick V. Verkooijen with UoN VC Prof Stephen Kiama
UoN Discusses Partnership with the Global Centre on Adaptation to advance the Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program

The University of Nairobi Vice-Chancellor held discussions with Patrick V. Verkooijen, the CEO of Global Center on Adaptation. Salient in the discussions was the agreement to develop a framework of accelerating climate change adaptation in Africa.

VC Kiama_APHREA DST Launch
VC Launches the APHREA Data Science Training Program at the University of Nairobi

On April 4, 2022, the Vice Chancellor officially launched the Advancing Public Health Research in Eastern Africa through Data Science Training (APHREA-DST) project at the University of Nairobi (UoN) in the presence of UoN management, stakeholders, academicians, and researchers.  The event was held at the University of Nairobi Towers in Nairobi, Kenya.