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July 22, 2022 60 mins
In this episode with Dorcas Kareithi a clinical trials statistician from Kenya currently based in the UK we discussed: Dorcas’s  background and how her love for Math led her to study Applied Statistics What she calls herself  Dorcas’s love for data, data  puns and t shirts with them All the key steps she took to end up working in health with her skillset Difference between being a researcher and statistician  What influenced her interest in health from family to books she read growing up  How she ended up working in health after her Bachelor's degree  and key steps she took to lead herself there Mentorship and the role it has played in her career Different types of mentors Highlights from her current and previous work What is her favorite thing about her work and working in public health  What she likes the least about working in public health  Ethics in public health research Inequalities in healthcare access The importance of government buy in and will to bridge research findings to policy and implementation  Importance of documenting failures in research  Her top 3 software recommendations Words of wisdom especially to people looking to have careers in statistics  Her resource plugs: Young African Statisticians (YASA): https://twitter.com/africanyas Words that count:  https://twitter.com/wordsafrica RLadies Nairobi: https://twitter.com/rladiesnairobi
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