The Safety & Responsibility Committee* of the Indiana University Overseas Study Advisory Council has lifted the suspension of study for IU School of Medicine students in Kenya as of April, 2008. The program was suspended in January, 2008, because of violence that followed the presidential election in Kenya.

Student participants of the IU School of Medicine program will be required to sign a special waiver that University Legal Counsel has designed for the program given the special permission for this program to operate in a country for which there is a U.S. Department of State Travel Warning in effect. 

Indiana University reserves the right to revisit the decision to allow the aforementioned program to continue should there be a change of conditions in Kenya.

*The Committee comprises Larry Stephens, Director of Risk Management at Indiana University; Joseph Hoffmann, Harry Pratter Professor of Law, IUB; Susan Sutton, Associate Vice President for International Affairs and Associate Vice Chancellor for International Affairs at IUPUI and Chancellor's Professor of Anthropology; and Bonnie Brownlee, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies of the School of Journalism. Kathleen Sideli, Associate Vice President for Overseas Study, chairs the Committee on behalf of IU's system-wide Overseas Study Advisory Council. Susan Carty, Director of Program Management and Administration of the Office of Overseas Study, and Patrick O'Meara, Vice President for International Affairs, participated in the deliberations.