 The initiative to develop African research leaders career open day, a measure to build capacity in health research organized by Camry Welcome Trust in partnership with African Academy of Sciences aims to attract university graduates from multiple disciplines towards health research. According to the African Academy of Sciences program deputy director Dr Alphonse's neighbor, such initiatives in the continent are aimed at promoting African-led researchers to solve Africa's health problems. The African Academy of Sciences is the only pan-African Academy of Sciences that deals with promoting science and development on the continent. We have as our vision transformed lives. So what we do is we work towards transforming lives on the continent using science mobilizing resources and partnerships and collaborations and other resources that we are able to work with with other stakeholders across the continent and globally. We also provide think, think and advisory services or functions in order to shape policies in health and science on the continent. Then thirdly we are an honorific organization so we recognize excellence in science through a number of excellent schemes that we implement. I deal the program which is having the open day is one of the 11 programs and they cover a wide spectrum of health research fields including bioinformatics and genomics including one health that is those diseases that affect humans and they can cross onto animals and vice versa. We deal with immunology and infection, we deal with malaria elimination and a whole lot of other areas. We have other programs again like the H3Africa, H3Africa is a human hereditary and health in Africa which is looking at the underlying determinants of health genomics so to speak and the environment how all these affect our health and our resilience as human beings. So to speak we have other programs which are solely based on promoting postdoctoral education on the continent. So we have about the African postdoctoral training initiative, we have what we call ISA RISE, we have what we call FLIR and these are all programs that are providing research opportunities for young and promising early career Africans to pursue research at the highest level on the continent and even outside the continent when that is available. The program's aim is to provide quality research training to 20 gifted students within an eight month internship period rather than those who are financially capable. The aim of the career day is to give young and recent graduate an opportunity to interact with researchers. What we have come to understand a bit more about research career because what we have come to realize is that a lot of the people coming through from our universities often haven't had a chance to really interact with researchers and many of them don't know what it takes to become a researcher or what research career entails and part of that it's not their fault is that there are not that many researchers and often there are not that many forums and opportunities where they can interact with the researchers and so this open day we spend a lot of time telling them a bit about how researchers they get to hear life stories of people who are current researchers, Kenyan researchers, African researchers and also they get opportunity to ask questions about what being a researcher means what they're taking up a research career will mean for them what they need to think about or to consider as they're considering research as a career. The second part is that it is part of our recruitment process for what you call a postgraduate diploma in health research methods. This is an eight month program that we offer together with the upon University and it is really a PGD that is focused on experiential learning for research and so what happens today is that in addition to having the open day talking about careers they do get to do just a very short aptitude test and with that aptitude test we will then look at the scores and we'll invite the top 60 or so for now face-to-face interviews and eventually we'll take about 20 will come and spend time at our programs facilities in Kilife and interacting with the researchers being mentored doing a research project and also getting teaching from both members of the Cameroocam Trust research program and Pony University. The Pony University is located in Kilife and the Cameroocam Trust is also located in Kilife about two kilometers away and apart from the physical proximity the collaboration we have a formal MOU between the Pony University which is a chartered public university and the Cameroocam Trust which is one of the parasitutors of the Minister of Health and the Pony is a young university you know which got its charter in 2013 and Camero's March all over 30 years and when the university came up we found the mutual kind of interest between the two institutions in terms of here is the Research Institute whose mandate is largely research and here is a public university whose mandate is largely training so and there's a novel up between these two and we took advantage of these to sign an MOU with them and to largely collaborate in various areas but the main one being postgraduate health research training from undergraduate to postgraduate diploma which we will talk a little bit about to masters to PhD and to us this is a very unique opportunity and a kind of paradigm shift in the country in the sense that many of our institutions research institutes the industry the universities sit in silos on their own without necessarily talking to each other and as we bridge this gap and came up with programs that are of mutual interest and mandated between the two institutions and identified postgraduate three-side training where the university is mandated to be in charge of accreditation and quality control in terms of you know according to the Commission for University Education and the Research Institute on the other hand has good infrastructure both the physical infrastructure and the human resource the stakeholders appeal to the government and the private sector for funding and support in order to enhance the outreach of the health research training for i2-5 for news I am Abdul Razak in good here