African Population and Health Research Center
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The African Population and Health Research Center is the continent’s premier research institution and think tank, generating evidence to drive policy action to improve the health and wellbeing of African people.
As a progressive African-led global research center invested in creating legacy impact, our work is centered on three integrated programmatic divisions:
Research: Our teams orient their research agendas to global and continental development priorities bringing independent evidence to the forefront of decisions supporting improved growth and development in the region. The center’s research priorities fall within six thematic units: Aging and Development; Education and Youth Empowerment; Health and Systems for Health; Maternal and Child Wellbeing; Population Dynamics and Sexual Reproductive Health and; Urbanization and Wellbeing in Africa. Anchoring the six is our Data, Measurement, and Evaluation Unit providing internal support for robust data systems and outward-looking technical assistance in program evaluation and data use. Source
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| Scope | Trade/B2B |
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| Language | English |
| Country | Kenya |
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Search ArticlesFrom Evidence to Action: How a Kenyan Community Is Rewriting a Playbook on Child Marriage
By Erick Muge, Communication and Advocacy Officer, and Martha Mukami, Program Officer, NASCOP A quiet revolution is underway in Turkana, Kenya – In the arid plains of northwestern Kenya. It is not led by international NGOs or government decrees but by pastoralists, grandmothers, beadwork artisans, and gatekeepers- men and women who have decided to rewrite the future for their daughters.
Human Milk Banking in Kenya: Progress, Promise, and Persistent Questions
Breast milk is nature’s perfect food for infants as it contains all the nutrients a baby needs for the first six months of life, along with immune boosting antibodies that protect against illness. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), breast milk continues to meet about half of a child’s nutritional needs up to one year, and a third up to two years.
APHRC and EACRN Partner to Advance Action for Children’s Rights in Eastern Africa
Across Eastern Africa, advancing the rights and well-being of children and adolescents requires evidence, coordinated advocacy, and sustained engagement with decision-makers. It also requires partnerships that can bring these different strengths together to ensure that evidence informs policy, advocacy, and practice.
Advancing Gender Equity in Africa Amidst Global Backlash: The Urgent Case for African Research and Policy Institutions’ Leadership
Introduction Across the world, efforts to advance gender equity are at a crossroads. After decades of progress, a resurgence of anti-rights movements, political polarization, and shrinking civic space is reversing hard-won gains. Global funding for gender equality is shrinking, policy commitments are weakening, and in many regions, women’s and girls’ rights have become the first casualties of shifting political agendas.
What Will it Take to Scale Healthy School Meals in Kenya?
Earlier this year, in an opinion piece published in The Standard, Dr. Jacqueline Kung’u, Nutrition Scientist at the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), argued that Kenya’s school meals must deliver more than full stomachs. While expanding feeding to more learners is a significant achievement, success should ultimately be measured by the nutritional quality of the meals children receive.
When Crisis Becomes Routine, Learning Should Not Stop: The Case for Preparedness in Garissa County
When Crisis Becomes Routine, Learning Should Not Stop: The Case for Preparedness in Garissa County July 23, 2026 Human Development, Policy Engagement and Communications
When AI Writes the Essay, What Are We Actually Testing?
The take-home essay was already in trouble before ChatGPT arrived. The ability to measure genuine thinking has always depended on how well assessments and essays are designed, including whether they require students to draft iteratively, reflect critically, and engage personally with ideas. Too often, those conditions are absent. Generative AI has not broken our assessment systems so much as exposed how fragile they already were.
Partnership to Strengthen Africans’ Research and Policy Influence Skills
Nairobi, Kenya, and Johannesburg, South Africa | July 6, 2026: A new five-year partnership between the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) and fraycollege of Communications is set to strengthen research communication, advocacy, and policy engagement skills among African researchers, communicators, and practitioners to move their work beyond academic journals into policy and decision-making spaces including parliaments, ministries, and public debate.
When One Disease is Not the Whole Story: How MADIVA Is Transforming Multimorbidity Care in Nairobi
Across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), more adults are living with multiple chronic conditions at the same time. Diseases like diabetes, hypertension, and obesity are increasingly appearing not in isolation, but together in the same person. This is what’s known as multimorbidity, and it is quietly becoming one of the most serious public health challenges the continent faces.
Day of the African Child 2026: In Isiolo, Water Is Not Just a Service—It Is a Child Development Issue - APHRC
As Africa marks the Day of the African Child under the theme “Ensuring Universal Access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Every Child in Africa,” we are reminded that access to water is far more than just quenching thirst. It is about survival, dignity, learning, protection, and opportunity. For children growing up in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) such as Isiolo County, access to water is often the difference between thriving and merely surviving.