Research aims to improve health outcomes for pregnant women in Kenya

Researchers at De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) and the University of Kenya have teamed up to help improve health outcomes working first in Kisumu County, Kenya, which has a population of more than 1.1 million people.  The project is funded by the International Science Partnership Fund, run by the British Council.Dr Shivanthi Samarasinghe, Associate Professor in Microbial Genetics and Genomics, will lead the project at DMU with co-investigator Professor Bertha Ochieng. Dr Eunice Toko from Maseno University Kenya will lead the research activities from Kenya. Dr Samarasinghe said: “This collaboration is about working together to reducing the number of women who suffer from these infections, which go undiagnosed, and the impact which that can have on them and their unborn child.