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Kenyatta National Hospital
Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi is Kenya's national referral hospital and East Africa's largest; for decades it ran the country's only public radiotherapy service, and it leads Kenya's cervical screening, HPV vaccination and Burkitt lymphoma research.
Also called: KNHUniversity of Nairobi College of Health Sciences
Overview
Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, founded in 1901 and Kenya's oldest and largest hospital, is the national teaching and referral hospital of the University of Nairobi and for decades hosted the only public radiotherapy service in Kenya, treating patients from across East Africa. Its Cancer Treatment Centre provides radiotherapy including brachytherapy, medical oncology, haematology and paediatric oncology, and KNH is a lead site for Kenya's national cancer control programme, the Nairobi cancer registry, cervical cancer screening and HPV vaccination roll-out studies, Burkitt lymphoma and HIV-associated cancer research, and paediatric oncology twinning programmes with international partners. The hospital's newer linear accelerators and the planned Kenyatta University cancer hospital are expanding radiotherapy access.
Location
Nairobi, KE
Type
hospital · University of Nairobi
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#206 · 28 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 28 from 14 linked objects) · ranking
Research output
From OpenAlex, oncology works in the last five years (2022 to 2026, current year in progress); counted on 2026-09-15.
Matched to Kenyatta National Hospital, including child institutions. 19 works · 59 citations · 95% open access · 5% clinical trials · 5% reviews.
Oncology works per year
22022
52023
12024
32025
82026
Most works
- Daniel Ojuka3 works
- Sami Akbulut2 works
- Abdirahman Sakulen Hargura2 works
- Ali Aloun2 works
- Ibrahım Umar Garzali2 works
- Abeid Omar2 works
- Asma’u Usman1 works
- Lorriane Odhiambo1 works
- Bernhard Radlwimmer1 works
- Matilda Ong’ondi1 works
Most cited
- Cancer Treatment Centre and radiotherapy
- Nairobi cancer registry
- Cervical cancer screening
- Paediatric oncology
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