Research
Drs. Susan Cu-Uvin MD, Professor, Ob-Gyn and Medicine, Professor, Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University and Elkanah Omenge Orang'o, MBChB, MMED Senior Lecturer, Department of Reproductive Health, Moi University School of Medicine, Eldoret, Kenya lead the Brown/Moi Training Program for the Prevention of HIV-related Cervical Cancer (5D43TW011317) funded by the NIH-Fogarty International Center beginning in 2018.
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The focus of this research training program is the understanding of the pathogenesis of cervical cancer in WLHIV (women living with HIV) and to optimize the screening, prevention and treatment of HIV related cervical cancer. A multidisciplinary group of Kenyan researchers are being trained to conduct HIV, HPV, and cervical cancer-related studies with the end goal of decreasing cervical cancer-related deaths among Kenyan women living with HIV. The program is training a cadre of basic science and public health graduate trainees and clinical research scholars from Kenya at Brown. The ultimate goal is to develop a cadre of multidisciplinary researchers in Western Kenya who will anchor research in this NIH priority area and increase research capacity on HIV and cervical cancer in Kenya.
2023 Brown/Moi Symposium
With over 70 attendees, the Brown/Moi Training Program for the Prevention of HIV-Related Cervical Cancer 2023 Symposium was a great success. Researchers, students and institutional partners alike participated in sessions about HIV and mother-to-child transmission, social behavioral issues in adolescents and women with HIV, sexual misconduct issues in the work place, manuscript writing and effective mentoring. D43 scholars/mentees Faith, Titus and William also presented their research, followed by the Kenyan U54 mentees.
