Welcome to my blog post on my week abroad in Kenya, studying community health and nutrition. I’m currently a year 12 student aspiring to study dietetics and nutrition. I’ve already taken up offers to shadow dietitians in primary healthcare and hospital settings in the UK.

The Transforming the Community Health Workforce program is a unique mutual learning exchange between local government in Homa Bay County in Kenya and Liverpool, UK. Unlike traditional South-to-South collaborations, this initiative fosters South-to-North and North-to-South learning, enabling both regions to share knowledge and best practices. The exchange is jointly hosted by Liverpool School of Tropical […]

“C-it DU-it” (pronounced “see it; do it”) hosted its first Learning Event in Homa Bay in October 2024. This was the first time Homa Bay’s 16 Work Improvement Teams met to share innovations around early identification and referral of pregnant women. Nobody could ignore the palpable energy in the room as the Work Improvement Teams […]