The official launch of a new sub-Saharan African collaboration led by the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) will help scale adoption of clean energy to reduce respiratory and cardiovascular disease from exposure household air pollution, responsible for 634,000 preventable deaths each year in the region.
The NIHR CLEAN-Air(Africa) Global Health Research Unit will accelerate the understanding of air pollution related disease burden through a unique set of studies that will strengthen national health systems for community health prevention of HAP related disease and provide evidence-based recommendations for population transition to clean household and institutional energy.
New Clean Energy Research Initiative was launched on November 22, 2022 to address the burden of non-communicable diseases caused by household air pollution in sub-Sahara Africa.
CLEAN-Air(Africa) Initiative, a collaborative initiative between KEMRI and University of Liverpool and funded by UK National Institute for Health (NIRH), was officially launched yesterday by KEMRI Director General Prof Sam Kariuki at KEMRI Training Centre, Nairobi.
This research was funded by the NIHR (NIHR134530) using UK aid from the UK Government to support global health research. The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the UK government.
