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viagra price uk: Basically, I grew up in a very small rural community in Kajiado where I received my local education all the way up to secondary level, where I performed well during my O levels and secured a place at Alliance High School for A-levels, that is Forms Five and Six.  Soon after my O-levels, I was privileged to meet Professor Onesmo ole MoiYoi, who was working at the then International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases (ILRAD). We discussed about my future professional development and he advised me to think of the sciences. Incidentally, I had done fairly well in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology in my O-levels. With these subject combinations, I was poised to pursue A-level studies that would lead to either Medicine or Engineering.

Prof. Ole MoiYoi advised me that it was crucial to include Biology. At Alliance, I therefore, pursued Mathematics, Chemistry and Biology. After my A-levels, I had another discussion with my mentor, and we agreed that I enroll for Bachelors of Science degree at the university to enable me pursue a PhD training tract. The issue of combining a medical degree with a PhD was not common then. One would either choose a medical degree career or a PhD. So I went to the University of Nairobi, did a BSc, specialising in Biochemistry and Chemistry.

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viagra price uk I finished my University of Nairobi studies in 1989, after which I took an unusual two-year sojourn at my rural home. I felt I needed that break to get to know the people around me, understanding more of my Maasai culture, meet friends and so on. This was particularly so because I had been locked up in classrooms and away from my home area for a period of about 10 years.

After the two-year break - that was around 1991 - I started knocking at the doors of the Public Service Commission. During the 1990s, the Public Service Commission would at times send its officers to the University to interview candidates for various positions, who would then get jobs immediately after university education.

When I went in 1991 the Commission was quite surprised. They asked: “You graduated in 1989, now it is two years down the line, where have you been?” I explained that I was in my rural home, carrying out local errands, and that I had not received any communication requiring me to appear for any interview anywhere. It was routine then to receive letters for interviews upon completion of university education.

Anyway, I was given a quick interview, which was mostly to test my knowledge and skills in Chemistry. I still could remember much of the Chemistry I learnt at the University, and so I performed fairly well. I was, thereafter, given a job in the Government Chemist department.  However, at about the same time, I was also having discussions with my mentor, Prof. Ole MoiYoi, who had returned from the US with application forms from an institution in the US, Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. I completed the forms and posted them to the university which was in the process of completing selections for the 1991 Fall semester intake. My application was considered favourably. I received a letter from Wesleyan University to commence my studies in September, 1991. So I was faced with two rather divergent options to decide from: one to go and work; and another to go for further studies at the PhD level

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viagra price uk In fact it was a direct PhD. Such scholarships to pursue a PhD immediately after first degree are common in the US. In such cases, it is only in the event that you fail to qualify for the PhD, during a Qualifying Examination administered after two years of enrollment, that you are considered for a Masters.

By the way I should also mention that I was also offered a scholarship by the University of Nairobi to pursue an MSc in Biochemistry. But that was the time I was at home and I did not…

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viagra price uk I did not follow up. It is just one of those things that are inexplicable. It was too good an offer to let go, but it may have been this calling that there is this bigger thing coming, an opportunity to go straight for a PhD.

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viagra price uk That’s right. It is only later that some of these things become clearer. So basically, I got that scholarship, fully paid for by Wesleyan university in the US. The Teaching Assistantship Scholarship, as it was called, covered my stipend, tuition and other related costs while at Wesleyan. All I needed was to raise airfare to the US.

So that was way back in 1991. With the other offers I had locally, I had to make a quick decision. I said, “This is it: let me go for the PhD.” I, therefore, put on hold the government chemist appointment and the opportunity to pursue the MSc at the University of Nairobi.  I was left with the issue of making travel arrangements to the US. Neither parents nor I could raise enough funds to purchase an air-ticket. We, therefore, needed to do a Harambee to raise funds for the air ticket.  However, because we did not have sufficient time to organise a harambee prior to my departure, my mentor made all travel arrangements. I travelled and arrived in the US on August 31, 1991. There I pursued the PhD programme, did the qualifying examination after two years, passed and proceeded with the PhD programme. After five years and right on schedule, I was awarded my PhD on May 13, 1996. I, thereafter, proceeded to the University of California at San Francisco for my post-doctoral training. I worked in the laboratory of Dr. C.C. Wang at the School of Pharmacy, UCSF’s Parnassus Campus, for about a year, and returned back to Kenya in 1997.

When I returned to Kenya, I started looking for a job. I sent out job applications and was invited for interviews at KEMRI, KETRI, IPR and KARI. Fortunately, I was considered for employment in all the four places where I did interviews. Again, I had to make a choice.

Of the four organisations, I chose to work for KEMRI, not only because of its strategic location in Nairobi but also because of the medical research that it undertakes.  I found travel logistics to the other institutions somehow challenging. So I joined KEMRI in 1998 and was attached to the immunology/molecular biology laboratory. Dr. Davy Koech, a former KEMRI Director, was once a Director of the Centre where this laboratory was housed.

Immediately I joined the institute, I started assuming leadership responsibilities. I would say that was rather unusual given that I was barely one year into the KEMRI system. My first leadership assignment was to coordinate the KEMRI-JICA project, a joint co-operation between KEMRI and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency, focusing on a training programme on Blood Safety. I started coordinating this programme in 1999, together with one, Dr Peter M. Tukei. In the year 2001, I also started coordinating the larger KEMRI/JICA project itself. The latter was a five-year project with research focusing on viral hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, and opportunistic infections. The project closed in April 2006, after which the then KEMRI Director, Dr Koech, appointed me to coordinate the ITROMID graduate programme, a joint programme between KEMRI and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. So already within the institute I had already started coordinating large Institutional collaborative programmes.

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viagra price uk In the year 2007, the then KEMRI Director, Dr Koech, was relieved of his duties and Dr Monique Wasunna appointed as the Acting Director. She acted for a period of 21 months up to May 2009 when the Minister for Public Health and Sanitation, Hon Beth Mugo, appointed me to replace Dr Wasunna as Director of KEMRI, but also in acting capacity. I had never met the Minister prior to this interaction but knew her only as a public figure; a Minister in the Government. The Minister called me into her office one Friday, where she informed me that she wanted to assign me special responsibilities. That she wanted to appoint me as the acting Director of KEMRI. Being a Friday, she advised me to go think about it over the weekend, and then we would meet on Monday the following week for more details.

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viagra price ukYes, she did, and over the weekend, my thoughts were largely on that huge responsibility that the Minister had proposed to me. But I was also thinking about Dr. Wasunna, who was the acting Director and quietly wondering what could be the cause of the change. At the back of my mind, I was aware there was an urgent need to get a substantive Director, and I thought the Minister was responding to this need.

On Monday, the Hon. Minister called me, ‘You remember our appointment?’ ‘Yes, I’m on the way coming.’ Since I was scheduled to attend a student proposal defense at JKUAT that Monday, I had planned to pass by the Minister’s office then proceed to the university. I met the Minister, and she repeated her offer to me. I gladly responded that although I knew that that was a challenging position, it was a great honour for me to serve as acting Director, and so I accepted the appointment.’ So she said, ‘Fine, that is concluded and she will get back to me later.’ So I proceeded with my work. A few days later she called the KEMRI Board of Management appointed two months earlier.

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DR. MPOKE:  Yes, the new Board was appointed in March. My appointment came in May. So she called the gazetted members of the Board into her office. She also asked me to attend the meeting. After a brief meeting with the Board, I was then called into the boardroom, where she introduced me to the Board as the new acting Director. Subsequent to that, the PS introduced me to KEMRI members of staff, emphasising that my appointment was so as to manage the transition of KEMRI towards having a substantive Director.

I served in acting capacity for about 13 months before the Board conducted a competitive process to recruit a substantive Director. When the Board advertised this position, I applied, among others, did the interviews where I emerged top among the applicants. I was subsequently appointed as Director, KEMRI, via a gazette notice in August, 2010. I take this opportunity to thank the Minister for having the confidence and trust in me through this appointment, noting that this is quite a challenging position. I’m also deeply indebted to the KEMRI Board of Management, under the able stewardship of the Chairman, Dr. Edwin Muinga, for carrying out a transparent process of filling this position substantively.

That is basically how I have risen to where I am today