Initiating Dissemination / Professional Engagement - Child & Newborn Health Group KEMRI / Wellcome Trust Programme, Nairobi. (360G-Wellcome-083118_Z_07_Z)

Our key goals in initiating a series of engagement activities are: 1) To host a joint Ministry of Health (MoH) / Child and Newborn Health (CNH) Group (KEMRI / Wellcome Trust) meeting to discuss early findings of attempts to introduce evidence based guidelines for care for sick children in hospitals and to report on lessons learned. 2) To host a Child and Newborn Health Group Conference with partners from the Ministry of Health, The University of Nairobi, The Kenya Paediatric Association and other medical training institutions to present research findings and discuss their implications for the future direction of and partnerships for research in these areas. 3) To survey medical trainees to establish their exposure to, access to and appreciation of research evidence. 4) To develop a pilot problem-based interface for medical trainees to illustrate the role and contribution of research to improving clinical care of the very sick child in low-income settings.