Pauline Byakika

"“I told myself if I want to do good clinical research I need to be a good physician. And to be a good doctor meant I needed to go back for more training.”"

"We noticed a lot of women were lacking the soft skills, things like management, leadership, budgeting. In addition to those things, mentors talk about the different strategies they used to advance their career.”"

"“So we had senior women scientists speak to the junior women about the obstacles unique to women,” she says. “And that’s how I came to apply for the TDR grant.”"

"had a mentorship programme in place,” she says, “but it wasn’t very strong or well publicized"