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Meridian Neuro Foundation brings neurotherapy education, clinical training, and collaborative research alongside academic partners who have deep insight into what neurotherapy can look like in their regions.
East Africa · Nairobi, Kenya
USIU-Africa Partnership
In early 2026, Meridian Neuro Foundation established a formal academic partnership with United States International University–Africa (USIU-Africa), one of East Africa’s leading private universities, with accredited programs in psychology, counseling, and behavioral health. Our partnership centers on neurotherapy education, clinical training, and collaborative inquiry — shaped from the outset by the distinctive cultural and clinical context of mental health practice in the region.
USIU-Africa’s faculty and students bring deep familiarity with the mental health landscape of East Africa — a perspective that is essential to neurotherapy establishing deep and meaningful roots in this region. Together, the partnership assembles a training and mentoring framework, assessment tools, and a shared commitment to co-developing normative standards that reflect the full range of human neurodiversity and resilience. The partnership also opens the door to future collaborative research and data collection as the relationship matures.
Inaugural Program Visit — May 2026
Dr. Nathan Brown, Meridian’s founding Chair, will travel to Nairobi in May 2026 for the partnership’s inaugural program visit. The visit is designed to reach multiple audiences and serve overlapping goals: to introduce the concept and science of neurotherapy to a broad academic audience; to engage clinicians and graduate students in substantive conversation about what neurotherapy practice looks like and what its potential holds for the region; and to move beyond the conceptual entirely — putting devices in hand and demonstrating directly how neurotherapy works.
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