This course is designed to enhance the knowledge, skills, and competencies of journalists, communications experts, research scientists, public relations officers, and program managers across all aspects of health and science reporting. The course will build professionalism, neutrality, and the capacity to conduct honest, balanced investigations into health stories, turning complex scientific and medical matters into publishable stories that a layperson can understand and want to read. Building journalists’, communications experts’, and research scientists’ skills in health reporting remains critical to ensuring accurate, unbiased reporting that contributes to saving or improving lives.



Core journalistic skills for health reporting, including news and feature writing, ethics, fact‑checking, interpreting medical research, and crisis communication.
Health systems, epidemiology, health literacy, digital and social media, visual storytelling, public relations, and strategic health communication campaigns.
Practical understanding of the links between environment, climate, household energy, air pollution, and health in African contexts.
Participants research, develop, and publish or broadcast an original health or science story under expert supervision.

Kenya Medical Research Institute
P.O Box 54840, 00200
Mbagathi Road,
Off Raila Odinga Way
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: (254) 0202722541/4,
0713112853/4
graduateschool@kemri.go.ke