Simon Ernest

The Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute (KCRI) is an academic centre for evidence- based health interventions. KCRI conducts Clinical Trials, surveillance studies, qualitative studies, experimental studies, zoonoses studies and others. KCRI provides research training and necessary research infrastructure and logistics for KCRI, KCMC Hospital or KCMC University investigators, and the collaborating partners. KCRI hosts both investigator-initiated single site studies in addition of being a member of multiple consortia. KCRI also has expertise in zoonoses disease and emerging and emerging infectious disease with a good laboratory capacity established. The institute has a state of art biotechnology laboratory with capacity for molecular diagnosis of different infectious disease, genomic and bioinformatics capacity as well as biorepositary for sample storage.