06 Oct 2019

Former president,  Mr Festus  Mogae  has been appointed first chancellor of Amref International University in Kenya.

A statement from Amref International University states that Mr Mogae, who will be chancellor for a five-year tenure, expressed delight at his appointment as first chancellor of the university. 

He said he considered it an opportunity to broaden his scope from HIV to the entire health system. 

Mr Mogae congratulated Amref Health Africa for the visionary idea of developing an institution that would transform health sciences on the continent. “Training health professionals will contribute towards attaining universal health coverage and achieving lasting health change for Africa by Africans,” he said.

Amref International University (AMIU) is an institution of higher learning focusing on training in health sciences and is fully owned by Amref Health Africa. 

The university is founded on the intellect of Amref Health Africa, which has over 60 years’ experience providing quality public health interventions, training and education, and has nurtured leaders and shaped the future of public health practice in Africa for over 40 years under its predecessor Amref International Training Centre (AITC). 

It leads the way in health sciences education with a breadth of programmes and focuses primarily on health sciences courses with a commitment to progressively develop innovative programmes catering to the present and future needs of African populations. 

AMIU currently has an institute of research, innovation and consultancy and one school of health sciences with five departments being community health practice, health systems management and development, nursing, laboratory sciences and health professions education.  ENDS