Menstrual Hygiene Day is a global initiative that aims to raise awareness about the importance of menstrual hygiene management. Kabarak University's Outreach and Linkages function is making a significant impact on the lives of young girls through its mentorship program. The initiative, known as Support a Needy Girl Attend School, recently mentored and supported girls from Ole Rongai Primary School in Rongai sub-county on June 2nd. The program aims to empower girls to attend school, especially during their monthly periods.

The concept of innovation is one that is currently not well understood among many current and potential innovators. The term has been used in ways that have made it synonymous with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). As a result, current and potential innovators in other disciplines fail to understand if what they are engaged in or planning to engage in is actually innovation.

The Kabarak University Center for Health Informatics, in collaboration with Google Health, Intellisoft Consulting and HealthIT, is pleased to announce a series of upcoming events. These events include webinars, boot camps, and hackathons, all aimed at introducing participants to the essential concepts and tools necessary for building cutting-edge digital health applications.

Kabarak University and Kabarak TVETs were honored to participate in the 7th Annual Career Fair held at Vanessa Grant Girls School in Rongai Town, Nakuru. The event aimed to enlighten students about the vast array of career options available to them in the realm of post-secondary education. With students from various schools in attendance, the team from Kabarak University and Kabarak TVETs eagerly engaged with them, sharing invaluable information and guiding them toward a bright future.

Kabarak University Public Policy Research Analysis Club (KUPPRAC) Club (KUPPRAC), in partnership with Egerton University, had the opportunity to attend the inaugural Electric Vehicle Awareness event held on February 18th, 2023, at Karura Forest, Nairobi. The event brought together two student clubs, KUPPRAC and Egerton University's Environmental Club, to learn about the Electric Mobility Revolution in Kenya. The Green Global Footprint Initiative (GGFI) organized the event with the aim of promoting sustainable mobility and transport, environmental consciousness, and the use of clean and renewable energy (SDG 7) to address climate change.

On April 15, 2023, the Peace Ambassadors Kenya (PAK) Kabarak University Chapter, in collaboration with other PAK chapters, including those from Egerton and Multimedia, participated in an environmental conservation activity. The event was organized under the Green Print initiative by the PAK Nairobi management team and aimed to plant trees at the MAU forest.

The Kabarak University Electronic Voting Information System (EVIS) was awarded the Public Service Award at the Connected 2023 Summit that was held at the Diamonds Leisure Beach & Golf Resort in Diani Mombasa between 2^nd - 5^th April. The awards, sponsored by Oracle, featured entries from five categories, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Agriculture, Fintech, and Public service.

The field of public health is of the utmost importance in today's society, where health concerns have become increasingly complex and intertwined with environmental issues. In an effort to address these challenges and explore innovative solutions, the first Public Health International Conference was held from April 2^nd to 5^th, 2023 at the PrideInn Paradise Convention Centre in Mombasa County, Kenya. The conference attracted a diverse group of attendees from 21 counties, including representatives from the Ministry of Health, regulatory bodies in the public health sector, and seven learning institutions.

Mama’s hub, an output of the NRF funded project “eHealth for Universal Maternal Health Coverage in Underserved Counties and Vulnerable Population Groups in Kenya”, was featured on the Google Checkup event on 14^th March 2023. The system, developed using Google’s Open Health Stack, comprises of web and mobile applications for access by community health volunteers, ANC nurses, mothers and their next of kin.

The Kabarak University Center for Health Informatics held a three-day Health Data Science Hackathon from Friday, February 17th to Sunday, February 18th, 2023. The event attracted a total of 60 students, organized into 13 teams, with the aim of developing data products using de-identified and anonymized data from the Child Protection Management System (CPIMS), the Kenya Health Information System (KHIS), and HIV/AIDS data collection.