Physical Location: Kenyatta National Hospital Complex, Nairobi and KEMRI Headquarters Complex, Nairobi.

Mandates:

1. Diarrhoea: i. Cholera - epidemiology, characterisation, drug sensitivity;
   ii.  Other microbiological agents (excluding viruses).

2. Sexually Transmitted infections: i. aetiology, prevalence, epidemiology, control strategies; ii. HIV/AIDS - opportunistic infections and drug trials.
   Other bacterial and mycotic infections: aetiology, prevalence, epidemiology, control strategies.
   

3. Epidemiology of nosocomial infections: aetiology and control strategies.
   Antimicrobial monitoring and surveillance including molecular characterisation.
   Biology of protozoal and helminthic infections: aetiology, epidemiology, immunology, control strategies.
   

4. Schistosomiasis: epidemiology, vectors, control strategies.
   Filariasis: aetiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, control, immunology.