Timeline of Key Events in CDC Kenya History
1979
Dr. Harrison Spencer establishes field research center for malaria in Kenya as antimalarial resistance emerged in Africa
1979
Launch of partnership between CDC and KEMRI
1979
Evaluation of schistosomiasis morbidity in relation to the intensity of exposure
1979–1982
Saradidi Rural Health Project was the first major population study in East Africa
1980s
Malaria research continues in drug resistance, immune response, and entomological interventions
1992–1999
Asembo Bay Cohort Project—Longitudinal study on childhood illnesses in 15 villages
1994
Identification of unsafe blood supply
1996–2001
Malaria Insectide-treated Bednet Trial
1997
HIV, Schistosomiasis, and reinfection
1997
Global Enterics Multicenter Study (GEMS)
1999
AIDS declared a national disaster by President Moi
2000
Leadership and Investment in Fighting Epidemics (LIFE) Initiative
2001
Voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) guidelines
2002
Launch of the Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) in Siaya
2003
Kisumu Breastfeeding Study saw reduction mother to child transmission of HIV
2004
Launch of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
2004
Launch of the Global Disease Detection Center
2004
Launch of the Kenya Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (FELTP)
2004
TB prevalence study and TB lab established
2005
Launch of the Influenza Program
2007
Launch of the Global Migration and Quarantine Africa Program
2008
Kenya joins the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI)
2009
Phase III Clinical Trial for RTS,S malaria vaccine
2009
HIV Research Laboratory the first to be ISO accredited outside of Atlanta
2009
PEPFAR I ends and PEPFAR II starts
2011
Establishment of the Kenya Zoonotic Disease Unit
2012
Kenya AIDS Indicator Survey (KAIS)
2014–2015
CDC Kenya staff respond to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa
2014
Launch Global Health Security Agenda
2014
Second KAIS
2015
Release of the Strategic Timing of AntiRetroviral Treatment (START) results
2015
Launch of the Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe (DREAMS) program
2016
Launch of the Improving Public Health Management for Action (IMPACT) program
2016
Selected as Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) site
2016
Initiation of “Test and Treat” and pre-exposure prophylaxis strategies for HIV
2016
Clinical Research Center in western Kenya selected as HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) site
2017
Kenya Public Health Emergency Operations Center activates for national cholera outbreak
2018
Kenya completes Joint External Evaluation (JEE) for Health Security
2018
Kenya Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment Survey (KENPHIA)
2018
Kenya selected for expanded pilot of RTS,S malaria vaccine
