Tieba Millogo

Year completed at Wits University: 2014
Host HDSS centre for the field attachment: Navrongo Health Research Centre

Today, we present to you a note of appreciation from from Tieba Millogo of Kaya HDSS, Burkina Faso, who completed his course at the Wits University in July 2014.

My programme went very well. I am really grateful to INDEPTH and its entire staff for providing scholarship and facilitation throughout this training.

The course fits well in my training needs and it has equipped me with the skills I needed to further my career of a medical researcher.

I have now every confidence in my ability to fully carry out epidemiologic studies into various local relevant fields. As a fellow from francophone Africa, I am really lucky to have benefited from this course. The exposure in my case was double: the proper scientific programme of the course and the language.

In addition to completing the scientific goals of the programme, I have improved my skills in English which is also invaluable for my career.

I would like to specially thank INDEPTH for also having facilitated my parallel language training at Wits Language School.

My field placement in Navrongo Health Research Centre, Ghana, was another great exposure from which I have learned a lot. I have come to realise that due to language barriers, researchers in the same region, working in the same area have limited south-south collaborations.

Thanks to INDEPTH, progress is being made to end such limitations and to allow a full expression of the collaboration potential between researchers. I am committed to help develop collaborations between my HDSS site and the other sites in West Africa and beyond.