 My name is Gregorio Mundi and I am currently based at Cambridge Wellcome Trust in the Nairobi office. How I got involved in research was during my undergraduate training, undertaking the Bachelor of Science in Nursing Studies at the University of Nairobi. In my second year, one of my professors introduced me to some of the research activities that were taking place in the university, specifically research that was around conducting, trying to find out how we can find vaccine for HIV-AIDS. And I thought I was very interesting so I got involved in that and I became a peer leader at Kenya AIDS Vaccine Initiative and I started talking to my colleagues and trying to encourage them to get involved more in research and went on to take on responsibilities in community engagement programs and trying to recruit people from the community to take part in the various studies in the program as well. So that sort of found the basis, a strong basis for me to take on research activity going forward. So I took on other responsibilities mainly in research as well, cutting across from non-communicable to communicable diseases as well and recently in health systems research where I am currently working on health systems and trying to look at improving services and quality of services that new ones get in Kenyan health facilities. This work involves mainly talking to the nurses and trying to find out the work that they do while caring for sick new ones, how much time they spend while doing that work and the opinions on the criticality and difficulty levels of the work that they do. And also how often they get to do or not get to do some activities given the nature of those settings and understanding this information in context helps to try and come up with ways to improve care delivery to sick new ones so that they get quality care even given the limited nature, limited resource nature of those settings. And the work that I am currently involved in specifically in some of the findings that we have come up with have been very helpful is trying to look at how nurses do certain specific tasks in the neonatal setting and the methods that we are using are predominantly used in nuclear power generation and oil and gas and it's very interesting to employ those methods in neonatal research and find out more details or insights into how tasks are done. So these are called human factors economics or simply economics methods and they really help to unpack the complex nature of tasks that nurses do while caring for sick new ones and if you delve deeper into these tasks then you are able to redesign the way nurses do their work or even shift or share some tasks so that to find ways to make these nurses provide quality care to the new ones. So we are trying to look at aspects of task shifting and task sharing and economics methods are very helpful in trying to understand this task specifically and try to highlight issues of safety and quality while sharing or shifting tasks. And this research is important because if you are able to share or shift tasks then the few nurses that are available are able to concentrate on more skilled work or work or tasks that require higher skilled levels that are also closely linked to better patient outcomes so that we can eventually reduce the neonatal mortality levels. And I think for those who are looking to get into research I mean research is a very interesting area ever since I was introduced to it I've been doing it and you get to see your work and how it impacts the world even in a very small context and that is really fulfilling.