Abstract:
During the year 2018 AHRI has continued to move forward with the focus of achieving its strategic
objectives and ensuring the contribution towards its broader mission of improving medical care,
health and well-being of the public by generating scientific evidence. The research and innovation
activities have been focused primarily on addressing the identified public health priority needs of the
country and in line with the plan to achieve global health sustainable development goals (SDGs). This
year, a total of 66 research projects have been either completed or ongoing and 50 were published
in international and local peer-reviewed journals. The institute provided research support to 51 Ph.D.
and 16 MSc postgraduate students from local and international partner universities. During 2018, the
institute has also played a significant
