Mentoring Program Calendar & Events

We are excited to host the next CFAR Mentoring the Mentors Workshop at the Fairview Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya on Monday-Tuesday, 17 and 18 February, 2025. This event is sponsored by the UCSF-Bay Area Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), on behalf of the Inter-CFAR Sub-Saharan Africa Working Group. Investigators interested in attending the event should complete the linked registration form by Friday, 6 December 2024. Limited travel scholarships from other regions in Africa are available.

The two-day workshop is based on our successful 10+-year Mentoring the Mentors workshops held annually at the UCSF-Bay Area CFAR. The Kenya workshop will feature a keynote from Dr. Moses Kamya from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, and include talks from UCSF-based and Kenya-based faculty in an intensive and interactive meeting designed to provide faculty in HIV research with the tools for more effective mentoring in the context of African-based universities and research centers. The workshop will discuss the mentor-mentee relationship, structuring the mentoring relationship, and barriers related to being an early career investigator. It will feature didactic and interactive sessions on practical tips for mentoring, including sessions on distance mentoring, time management, leadership styles, manuscript writing, grant writing, individual development plans, funding strategies, forming teams, etc. We will spend time discussing how to form mentorship programs at Africa-based universities and getting credited for mentoring at the university level.

Please forward this announcement to relevant listservs or interested faculty. We have held similar Mentoring workshops at UCSF and Harvard, as well as at different Africa-based Universities (including in Durban in Spring 2024 in collaboration with AHRI/SANTHE and at other institutions through the Fogarty International Training Center). We hope this will be an exciting opportunity to learn specialized tools and techniques of effective mentoring.