Primary agreement
- Country:
- Kenya
- Campus:
- System-wide
- Agreement duration:
- March 1, 2022 to February 28, 2027
- Activity types:
- IU school, office, or unit:
- Office of the Vice President for International Affairs
- Partner institution:
- Moi University
Indiana University and Moi University have had an active partnership for more than 20 years. The partnership continues to advance IU's international development objectives. Beyond the collaboration of the IU and Moi Schools of Medicine on the AMPATH program, many schools and departments on the Indianapolis and Bloomington campuses are now engaged in collaborative teaching and research with parallel academic units at Moi. This primary partnership agreement was signed during IU President Michael McRobbie's visit to Kenya in September 2013. The connections with Moi University go back to 1989 when the IU School of Medicine partnered with the Moi University School of Medicine to help build Kenya's second medical school, with a focus on delivering health services, conducting health research, and developing leaders in health care for both the U.S. and Africa. The partnership continues to be active, with a multitude of research projects. In 2001, IU and Moi jointly created AMPATH, one of Africa's largest, most comprehensive and effective HIV/AIDS control systems. Many other North American academic health centers have joined the effort as part of a consortium. Over 2,000 Kenyans are employed in programs related to AMPATH. In 2006, IU Indianapolis signed a ten-year agreement of strategic partnership with Moi University, signaling the growing interest of other academic units on the Indianapolis campus to collaborate with their Moi colleagues. Activities have included a social science research network was established in 2008, with research focused on the elderly and traditional knowledge transmission, and research on traditional agriculture. IU Indianapolis's Office of International Affairs has hosted three conferences on Peace and Reconciliation in collaboration with colleagues at Moi since 2009. Over the years, the IU School of Social Work, School of Nursing, and Lilly Family School of Philanthropy have entered into sub-agreements with their counterparts at Moi. On the Bloomington campus, the Media School and Moi's Department of Communication Studies had a relationship supporting the teaching of Reporting on HIV/AIDS in Africa, a summer course offered by the IU Journalism and taught partially in Eldoret with the collaboration of the Department of Communication Studies. The program worked closely with IU-Kenya Partnership's AMPATH project leaders.
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