The Kenya Healthy Home Healthy Brain Project (K-HHOP) Team recently wrapped up a successful workshop in Kenya. The goal of the workshop was to find better ways to translate research into policy and practice, particularly when it comes to reducing the impacts of toxicants like lead and air pollution and child brain development. The event brought together a high caliber group of environmental scientists, chemists, pharmacists, pediatricians, and psychologists, and representatives from the Ministry of Health and Nairobi City County. The team was invited to submit a policy brief to the Ministry to summarize the key themes from the workshop. K-HHOP was funded by the Global Innovation Fund (UW Office of Global Affairs and is a collaboration between PI Sarah Benki-Nugent (Global Health, UW), Dr. Farida Were and Professor Elizabeth Maleche Obimbo (University of Nairobi), and Drs. Catherine Karr and Anne Riederer (EDGE and DEOHS).
