UoN collaborates with a leading US university to offer joint degree programs.

The University of Nairobi (UoN) received a delegation from Washington State University on Monday, February 6, 2023. (WSU).
The crew is in Kenya for five days to see the joint projects that Prof. Kirk Schulz, the 11th President of WSU, is executing.
In the near future, the two universities will offer joint degree programs and collaborate to apply for further research funding.

Prof. Kiama and Prof. Schulz hosted a brainstorming session with representatives from the two higher education institutions to consider innovative ideas for strengthening and broadening the area of collaboration. With several ongoing projects, Washington State University and the University of Nairobi have a long-standing collaborative relationship.,

including the D43 NIH-funded program for training veterinarians and doctors on Zoonosis and One Health, where fellow graduate research is carried out at the UoN-based centers of excellence housed under the KAVI Institute of Clinical Research (KAVI-ICR), Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (UNITID), and the Centre for Epidemiological Modeling and Analysis (CEMA), and feed the future Innovation Lab for Animal Health, a USAID-funded program between WSU and UoN.

Prof. Kiama highlighted the accomplishments and immediate effects of the current collaborative training programs when he said, "We have been in talks with Washington State University about launching joint degree programs;