Overview

Young Kenyan In 1990, the IU School of Medicine (IUSM) Faculty, with leadership from the Division of General Internal Medicine, forged a partnership with the Moi University Faculty of Health Sciences (now called Moi University School of Medicine, MUSM). That collaboration has touched the lives and hearts of all who have participated in it.

Individual, person-to-person relationships form the cornerstone of the IUSM-MUSM program. Each American visitor in Kenya links with his/her appropriate counterpart. Faculty physicians link with faculty under the direction of the Kenyan head of department; residents link with Kenyan medical officers; and medical students from the US link with Kenyan medical students.

The IU-Kenya Partnership fosters institutional change at IUSM and at MUSM through a robust exchange program that involves virtually every major department at each medical school. The partnership has also spawned major system change in Kenya, including AMPATH, one of the most comprehensive and successful HIV control systems in sub-Saharan Africa.

Growing from an initial one-person faculty representative in 1990, Indiana University now supports six full time positions on-site in Eldoret.

Mission

The mission of the IU-Kenya Partnership is to:

develop leaders in health care for the United States and Africa;

foster the values of the medical profession; and

promote health for the human family.

Overview