In Kenya, CNIS partnered with the Ministry of Health to implement Trauma Team Training (TTT) through a digital platform. This program delivered structured trauma education to 10 teams in each of nine counties, empowering doctors, clinical officers, and nurses with lifesaving emergency-care skills. By prioritizing rural and remote settings, the program strengthened trauma response capacity where it is most needed. The effort was championed by Dr. Gladwell Getachew, Dr. Stephen Mutiso, and Dr. Yvette Kisiso, whose leadership underscored the value of strong local partnerships. Demonstrating proof of scale, Kenya showcased how CNIS’s digital training modules could effectively adapt and expand trauma care education nationwide. By ensuring frontline providers become confident first responders in emergencies, CNIS’s work contributes directly to reducing preventable deaths from injury while offering a sustainable, repeatable model for digital medical education delivery. Kenya represents a key success story in scaling CNIS’s core trauma-care framework.

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With the support of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, the TTT course was digitized and made accessible to learners on mobile phone apps. Under the auspices of the Ministry of Health of Kenya and with 3-year support from the Royal College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the second year of this hybrid digital program was implemented, with 250 health professionals in twenty-four teams from 6 counties completing the course. Dr’s Gladwell, Kisaka and Mutiso from the MOH together with Dr’s Lett and Eamer as well as several other Kenyan instructors implemented the course. The third and final year of the program starts in April 2024.