Center for Public Health Kinetics (CPHK), a not-for-profit institution established in 1995 (formerly known as Center for Micronutrient Research), is a center for excellence in public health research & preventive medicine with a major focus on New Born, Maternal and Adolescent Health. CPHK is registered as a trust and a collaborative center of Subharti Medical College (Uttar Pradesh, India), Ministry of Health, Zanzibar and Public Health Laboratory-Ivo De Carneri in Pemba Island, Zanzibar. Among our other collaborators includes Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA and Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College, Bogra, Bangladesh. CPHK is dedicated towards conducting evidence based scientific and social research for advancement of knowledge, disseminating knowledge and research findings to scientists, civil society, administrators, policy makers and governments within Zanzibar and globally, our mission is to generate knowledge that catalysis public health research and policy to save lives in marginalized countries, with concurrent development of manpower.