Episode 6-Interview with Dorcas Kareithi

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