Kizazi

kiswahili: noun, "generations"

Photo by Sarah Rawlins

What We Do

Weekly mentorship meeting for researchers working in mother-child health.

Our Vision

Our group is based on a model of vertical and horizontal mentorship.

vertical mentorship: junior investigators receive frequent input from more senior investigators from various departments

horizontal mentorship: diversity of expertise enables members to become conversant in their topic from an interdisciplinary perspective

Who We Are

Graduate students, postdocs, fellows, project staff, program staff, and faculty

Our members are from the departments of: Global Health, Medicine, Biostats, Epi, Nursing, Obs/Gynae, Neonatology, Infectious Disease, and Pediatrics

Our Goal

To accelerate the pace of manuscript development and presentation of research

We do this by:

• Providing feedback during study design, clinical trails, and data analysis
• Providing an environment of teamwork and interdisciplinary collaboration
• Facilitating horizontal and vertical mentorship

Format

• Informal updates on research progress are provided by 1-2 members per week
• Fortnightly roundtable updates

Examples

• Updates to ongoing trials and studies
  
• Research and analyses using specimen & data repositories
  
• Grant proposals (Ks, Rs, CFAR, KEFA, ITHS, Global-WACh)
  
• Thesis proposals
  
• Manuscript preparation
  
• Conference preparation: Abstract reviews, Practice talks
  
• Ethical issues
  
• Statistical conundrums
  

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