Kaimosi Friends University (KAFU) is one of the few institutions of Higher learning in western Kenya hosting a school with very unique and attractive health and life science programmes as its flagship school. At the moment the School of Health Sciences (SoHS) at KAFU is only the second in Kenya with an Optometry programme at various levels up to a PhD, including upgrade programmes for those with prior learnings at diploma level from recognized institutions by KAFU senate. The School also houses programmes in Nursing, and Clinical Medicine up to post graduate levels.

As a young and vibrant school which was recently establish in 2022, the school looks to being a regional hub and centre of excellence in training for health science programmes like environmental health, oral health, pharmacy, basic medical sciences like anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry, amongst other life sciences and technologies. The school also looks to housing top class health professionals who are industrial bests, as well as partnering with industries, county governments, hospitals, and other non-governmental institutions and individuals towards promoting excellence in health education in east and central Africa.

As we know, the country is currently faced with the challenge of paucity of well-trained health professionals often occasioned by both insufficient training institutions and the effects of brain drain. KAFU is strategically positioned to supporting its SoHS in bridging this gap in manpower development for health through commitment to industrial collaborations, supporting innovative ideas, and linkages that will grow the school to an enviable status within a short period of 5 years.

The SoHS at KAFU is committed to building an academic environment that fosters intellectual freedom, scholarly teaching, distinction in research and scholarship, diversity in cultural integration in practical and clinical learning, and in community service, and services to humanity in a collaborative manner, that is sustainable in a social, and culturally dynamic environment. In other to achieve this goals, it is our hope that everyone, institutions and individuals alike, with like minds to supporting health workers’ training and community support in a manner that efficient and effective, will come on board and join KAFU-SoHS in growing this vision of establishing a regional hub and centre of excellence in health care workers’ training in Kenya. KAFU-SoHS is committed and focused to educating health care professionals who can meet the demands of an ever growing and dynamic health care systems and bridging the huge gap in manpower for health care delivery in east and central Africa.