I had my first day of my internship yesterday! I'll be spending the summer at KEMRI, the Kenya Medical Research Institute, and UNITID, the University of Nairobi Institute of Tropical & Infectious Diseases. I was paired with my mentor, the wonderful Dr. B, an incredibly sweet woman who I can tell will teach me a lot.
My main focus will be assisting her with a research project involving breastfeeding in HIV+ women. As I was being introduced to the project I couldn't believe my good fortune to be working on something that interests and matters to me so much. I'll have the opportunity to work in some Nairobi City Clinics a couple of days each week and I'll spend the rest of my time in the UNITID building. I share an office with some of the coolest Kenyan nurses who are such a big inspiration to me already.
So far I've been busy completing my human subjects training, which gives me clearance to ethically do research on people, attending a couple of lectures Dr. B. has given to U of Nairobi public health graduate students about writing research proposals, and getting to know my coworkers and how everything works.
I was expecting more bumps and hiccups to be honest, but things have gotten off to a really great start (knock on wood!).
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