INDEPTH - DSS UNIVERSITIES:
SHORT TERM FELLOWSHIPS
KISUMU DSS, Kisumu Kenya
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1. Name of site: |
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Kisumu Demographic Surveillance Site |
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City/Country: |
Kisumu, Kenya |
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3. Site Leader: |
Kayla Laserson |
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4. Site contact person for this programme: |
Kayla Laserson |
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5. Short description of site: |
The Kisumu DSS, which was launched in
September 2001 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
in collaboration with the Kenyan Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), is
located in the Bondo and Siaya Districts, lying northeast of Lake
Victoria in the Nyanza Province of Western Kenya. The surveillance site
of Asembo covers an area of 78 km2 with a population of about 57,000
people and Gem covers an area 300 km2 with a population of about 75,000.
The population is culturally homogeneous; over 95% are members of the
Luo tribe with subsistence farming and fishing being the mainstay of the
local economy. This DSS has been developed with the objective of
providing accurate, complete, and timely demographic, health, and
socioeconomic data on the population of the area where the research of
the CDC and KEMRI is being conducted. It is intended to provide two
basic kinds of information: General demographic and health information
and disease or intervention specific information. |
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6. Research objectives: |
The main objectives of the Kisumu DSS are to
provide among other things, the core research framework for factorial
trials, and essential and timely information for the evaluation of
vaccines and other new public health interventions. |
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7. Priority research areas: |
Malaria: impact of malaria control tools,
particularly insecticide treated nets, on mortality
HIV/AIDS: demographics, risk factors, evaluation of
intervention/prevention strategies, orphanhood
Diarrheal diseases: burden and etiology, evaluation of safe water
interventions
Schistosomiasis/geohelminths: burden, geographic distribution, potential
evaluation of control strategies. |
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8. Sample publications in the last five years: |
The Western Kenya Insecticide-treated bed
net Trial”;
Penelope A.et al.
Supplement to The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene:
2003, 68(4)
Protective effects of the sickle cell gene against malaria morbidity and
mortality.;
Aidoo, M., D.J. Terlouw, M.S. Kolczak, P.D. McElroy, F.O. ter Kuile, S.
Kariuki, B.L. Nahlen, A.A. Lal, and V. Udhayakumar.
Lancet, 2002. 359: p. 1311-1312.
Tumor necrosis factor- promoter variant 2 (TNF2) is associated with
pre-term delivery, infant mortality, and malaria morbidity in western
Kenya: Asembo Bay Cohort Project IX. ;
Aidoo, M., P.D. McElroy, M.S. Kolczak, D.J. Terlouw, F.O. ter Kuile, B.
Nahlen, A.A. Lal, and V. Udhayakumar.
Genetic Epidemiology, 2001. 21: p. 201-211.
Risk factors for HIV infection among asymptomatic pregnant women
attending an antenatal clinic in western Kenya. ;
Ayisi, J.G., A.M. van Eijk, F.O. ter Kuile, M.S. Kolczak, J.A. Otieno,
A.O. Misore, P.A. Kager, R.W. Steketee, and B.L. Nahlen.
Int J STD AIDS, 2000. 11(6): p. 393-401.
Longitudinal cohort study of the epidemiology of malaria infections in
an area of intense malaria transmission II. Descriptive epidemiology of
malaria infection and disease among children; Bloland, P.B., D.A. Boriga,
T.K. Ruebush, J.B. McCormick, J.M. Roberts, A.J. Oloo, W. Hawley, A. Lal,
B. Nahlen, and C.C. Campbell. Am J Trop Med Hyg, 1999. 60(4): p. 641-8. |
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9. Description of areas, or example of research
questions site is interested in for which it will welcome collaboration
from the university: |
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10. Description of existing staff and competence in data analysis |
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Period of time / length of time site can host a visiting researcher: |
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Will your site welcome a PhD student (supervised by staff in the
population programme) to work on available data to answer questions you
are interested in? |
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Any other issues you think are relevant to the programme / suggestions: |
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For more information, please contact:
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Dr. Osman Sankoh
Deputy Executive Director
INDEPTH Network
Accra, Ghana
Email :
osman.sankoh@indepth-network.org
Tel.: +233 21 519394
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