The School of Pharmacy College of health Sciences is the 3rd best performing Teaching school under the category of all teaching schools and faculties with departments in the University of Nairobi.
The online version of the Varsity Focus September 2020 is out. The edition focuses on our activities for the first half of the year. In this issue we covered the installation of the 8th Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Stephen Kiama, who also shared his vision for the University.
University of Nairobi Vice Chancellor Prof. Stephen Kiama visited the College of Health Sciences on 2nd March, 2020.
The VC was welcomed by the College Principal Prof. James Machoki.
H e met staff from the School of Public Health thereafter toured the library to see the progress of renovations being done before heading to inspect the new building that will house the School of Pharmacy.
COMMENCEMENT DATE – 2019/2020/2021 ACADEMIC YEAR
The University of Nairobi wishes to inform the following groups of students that the commencement date of the 2019/20/21 Academic Year is as follows:
MONDAY, 9 MARCH 2020
Kenya should go on high alert over the outbreak of corona virus that has so far killed more than 2,600 people globally.
Prof. Omu Anzala from KAVI-Institute of Clinical Research KAVI-ICR University of Nairobi says the spillover of the virus that emanated from Wuhan, China could emerge from anywhere.
The Mr and Miss College of Health Sciences (CHS) is an endeavor aimed at the restoration and redefinition of mental health.
Unlike most pageants, outward appearance is only a small focus of for the judges. Other qualities like character, talent and community service are given a more emphasis.
Having been nominated to represent Kenyan universities at the 30th Summer Universities Games in Italy, Romana Ochanda, 5th year MBCHB student is determined to conquer the waters. We caught up with were after jetting back to the country from Italy.
My name is Romana Adero Ochanda, a 5th year medical student at the University of Nairobi.
We caught up with Sharon Wakoli, a 6th year MBCHB student at the School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences. She has continued to make big strides in taekwondo, a game that is mostly associated with men, but for her the sky is the limit for her taekwondo journey.
What interested me in taekwondo:
KAVI Institute of Clinical Research enrolled the first volunteer to start a phase 1 clinical trial to test a novel HIV vaccine candidate, BG505 SOSIP.664 gp140.
The study dubbed the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative W001 (IAVI W001) is aimed at assessing the safety of the candidate and to determine if vaccination induces the human immune system to produce proteins known as neutralizing antibodies (NAbs).
Prof. Peter Mungai, the Director of the East Africa Kidney Institute (EAKI) will be the happiest man on earth once the construction works of the kidney hospital will be completed.
According to him, he has had a dream of building a kidney hospital for many years and its completion will be a dream come true.
