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Responses to the challenges in diagnosing Rare Diseases in Kenya — The Mawazo Institute

In the first blog of this three-part series, we looked into what Rare Diseases are, and the challenges in diagnosing Rare Diseases in…

6 min readJan 21, 2021

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Responses to the challenges in diagnosing Rare Diseases in Kenya — The Mawazo Institute

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Mawazo Institute

How one engineer is challenging the lack of representation in her industry — The Mawazo Institute

“95% of the time, I love my job,” electrical engineer Martha Wakoli explains. “I love the idea of thinking about things and creating them…

5 min readJan 19, 2021

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How one engineer is challenging the lack of representation in her industry — The Mawazo Institute

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Insights from a Postdoctoral Scientist and rare disease advocate, Dr.

This blog post is the second of a three-part series on the state of Rare Diseases in Kenya by Grace Njoroge, a recent Genomic Science…

5 min readDec 17, 2020

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Insights from a Postdoctoral Scientist and rare disease advocate, Dr.

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Mawazo Institute

The challenge in diagnosing Rare Diseases in Kenya — The Mawazo Institute

This blog post is the first of a three-part series on the state of Rare Diseases in Kenya written by Grace Njoroge, a recent Genomic…

4 min readDec 2, 2020

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The challenge in diagnosing Rare Diseases in Kenya — The Mawazo Institute

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How one Migration Expert is “Becoming a Better Researcher”; Q & A with Jacqueline Owigo — The…

Mawazo’s research has shown that PhD students are looking for training opportunities that can help them develop professional skills.

5 min readNov 5, 2020

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How one Migration Expert is “Becoming a Better Researcher”; Q & A with Jacqueline Owigo — The…

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Q & A with Dr.

As we launch the Mawazo Learning Exchange (MLEx), our new online training program and resource center for early-career African researchers…

4 min readOct 27, 2020

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Q & A with Dr.

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We Need to Talk About Mental Health in Academia — The Mawazo Institute

Last year, in June, a fifth-year mechanical engineering student from Kenyatta University was caught scaling a perimeter wall at State…

4 min readOct 10, 2020

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We Need to Talk About Mental Health in Academia — The Mawazo Institute

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Teaching Researchers How to Communicate their Work with Non-Experts — The Mawazo Institute

The spread of misinformation on COVID-19 is one of the biggest challenges in combating the public health crisis we now face…

5 min readSep 10, 2020

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Teaching Researchers How to Communicate their Work with Non-Experts — The Mawazo Institute

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The Nairobi Ideas Digest Issue 4: African Countries and Researchers Respond to the COVID-19…

Welcome back to the Nairobi Ideas Digest!

6 min readJun 30, 2020

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The Nairobi Ideas Digest Issue 4: African Countries and Researchers Respond to the COVID-19…

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Mawazo Statement on Systemic Violence — The Mawazo Institute

The Mawazo Institute is an African and woman-led organization that exists to support voices that are too often marginalised. Over the last…

2 min readJun 16, 2020

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Mawazo Statement on Systemic Violence — The Mawazo Institute

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Mawazo Institute

Mawazo Institute

Mawazo (meaning ‘ideas’ in Kiswahili), is a Nairobi based non-profit research institute that is a research and leadership incubator for women with ideas.

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