Establishing and Maintaining a mentoring relationship

Takeaways from today's episode: It is okay to be vulnerable and share your struggles. Always set boundaries with each other. Don’t restrict yourself, you can find mentors for different things. Be brave and direct and ask someone to be a mentor, the worst they can say is no. Be sure to pay it forward Resources Mentoring health researchers globally by Cole et al. Global Health Mentoring Toolkits by Hansoti et al. Guest information Dr. Amel Ghouila is a bioinformatician coordinating a Data science for public health program in LMICs. She previously worked for the bioinformatics capacity building network H3ABionet. Amel is the Vice President for ASBCB and the founder of a non-profit dedicated to teaching young girls coding and entrepreneurship skills. Contact Amel @ AmelGhouila Dr. Palwende BOUA is a Researcher in human genetics and nutrition at the Clinical Research Unit of Nanoro (CRUN), IRSS-DRCO, Burkina Faso. He has been working on multi-disciplinary research projects using GWAS data in population genetics studies in nutrition-related disorders and cardiometabolic diseases in African populations. Contact Palwende @romyboua Acknowledgements Editing by Mariana Vaz, https://www.marianacpvaz.com/ Research: Emmanuela Oppong Producers: Emmanuela Oppong (Producer), Alice Matimba (Senior Producer), Christine Boinett (Creator and Executive producer) and Isabela Malta (Producer). Host: Alice Matimba Media and Marketing: Catherine Holmes Music: https://freesound.org/s/477388/ Sponsors Wellcome Genome Campus Advanced Courses and Scientific Conferences Wellcome Sanger Institute Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health