This is an extremely exciting moment as we celebrate the Community and Public engagement in research-related activities discussed in this Newsletter. They were carried out by students from different schools in partnership with THRiVE researchers. THRiVE stands for “Training Health Researchers in Vocational Excellence”.
The institutions in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and the United Kingdom participating in the THRiVE activities are at the bottom of this page. Our researchers are highly trained at Ph.D. and at post-doctoral levels. They
mentored the youth so as to excite them about science and research. Scientists and researchers are not special human beings but they are inquisitive about issues that affect our lives. They use science and set out to create new knowledge to facilitate our understanding of why things are what they are and also find solutions. For example, a new disease, COVID-19, appeared and shook the world.
Through science and research, we now understand better how to control its spread. We extend our great appreciation to the schools, their management, and the students that participated in these activities. Schools everywhere should actively engage in science and research. Our countries will then have more scientists and researchers just like the developed countries.