Date National Research and Development Agenda Simon K. Langat, OGW

Background ✤ Vision 2030 ✤ MTP ✤ Raise productivity ✤ Transformation to a knowledge based economy ✤ Prudent utilization of resources

Introduction ✤ A research agenda is required to define the main areas of concern, to facilitate cooperation between stakeholders and channel funds to the most appropriate research

Objective ✤ Prioritize, promote and harness research to:

Health research priority areas ✤ Primary health care, prevention and control, ✤ Maternal health and child health ✤ Non communicable diseases and geriatrics ✤ Curative medicine including herbal medicine ✤ Emerging diseases,vectors,surveillance and zoonotic ✤ Emerging technologies ( nanotechnology) ✤ Ethical issues in health

Other areas ✤ Energy, agriculture, social sciences, environment, information & communication, physical nod biological sciences, engineering technology

Cross cutting issues ✤ Policy making / analysis ✤ IPR, innovation mgt ✤ Indexing us knowledge mgt ✤ Transformational Leadership ✤ Gender issues ✤ Education ✤ Resource mgt and equity

General outlook ✤ Multidisciplinarity ✤ Continuous monitoring of emerging issues and frontiers of knowledge ✤ Collaboration