Scholarship / Ensuring healthy lives of people - Chevening essay on career plan [2]

Question-Chevening is looking for individuals who have a clear post-study career plan. Please outline your immediate plans upon returning home and your longer term career goals. You may wish to consider how these relate to what the UK government is doing in your country.

Rensponse
I have intended to put the skills the knowledge and skills I have acquired into good use in Tanzania. When I get back to my home I will work with local NGO`s that support public health system. I have worked with them before but after completing my master's degree .I will be able to offer more skills and knowledge than before.
My first priority would be to work in the public health sector, especially the HIV/AIDS programme. In Tanzania, HIV/AIDS is a generalized epidemic with Tanzania in the top 30 in the list of high burden countries.

At first I will take up a position with the national department of health to improve the health system in rural provinces. With the knowledge that I would have acquired ,I will provide leadership and technical knowhow on how to implement on the HIV/AIDS programme, Alongside with the training and mentoring of Doctors and nurses to facilitate the care of the patient with HIV/AIDS

My 3 year plan would be to assist in establishing a clinical care centre for HIV /AIDS care. This project has been in the plan for a long time now but due to lack of professionally qualified people to create and run such unit, It has been a big predicament to make such a dream come true. My newly acquired knowledge on the management of health would enable me to fit in and fill in the gap and assist the local department to fill in the centre. The clinical knowledge of HIV/AIDS alongside with infectious disease that I will gain will be of essential importance in facilitating high quality service to the patient with HIV/AIDS in my country alongside with the complication that arise with it. The centre would be an ideal setting for research project.
This aligns with the one of the top priorities of the UK Department of International Development [DFID],which is to work to ensure healthy lives and promotion of well- being for all people, to ensure healthy lives. Tackle microbial resistance and prioritise neglected tropical disease .

Graduate / Building strong network and relationships - Chevening [3]

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Question:-Chevening is looking for individuals with strong professional relationship-building skills, who will engage with the Chevening community and influence and lead others in their chosen profession. Please explain how you build and maintain relationships in a professional capacity, using clear examples of how you currently do this, and outline how you hope to use these skills in the future.

Rensponse:-I believe that building a strong network is crucial for professional success, regardless of the career that one is from. From my personal experience as I was a member of TAMSA MUHAS from my first year to my fifth year I was able to attend various meetings that were held around the university campus that allowed me to connect with various people. I have also been able to meet some of the doctors and public health official in the medical field and I was able to learn about public health specialities from them.
During my years in university, I was also in rotaract club in Muhimbili whereby we led various workshops such as screening the community of diabetes and hypertension, also conducted programmes that encourages hand washing and sanitation practices among my community
In October 2022, I was able to attend the East African Public health palliative care congress, and I was in the ushering committee where I welcomed the keynote speakers of the day to their designated seats and I was able to learn from them cornering the palliative care and benefits and disadvantages of palliative care
Furthermore I was able to attend various conference which were held such as the 11th scientific conference held on June 2023 and the 12th scientific conference held on June 2024 ,in the conference I was privileged to meet likeminded people especially medical students from various universities and I was able to learn on diverse knowledge on medical field from them . I also had a privilege to get mentors that assisted me throughout my undergraduate years from them
To sum up, I will be more than glad to participate in any kind of event in collaboration with the Chevening alumni as it will be a great opportunity for me to expand my network and bring good impact to both Tanzania and the UK through discussion of global issues.

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Scholarship / Health and Public service - why you have selected your chosen three university courses [2]

In my years as medical student now a medical doctor have opened up my eyes to various challenges affecting my country .My selected courses are all directed toward finding solution to these challenges.

My first choice is Health and Public service management provided in the university of South wales. this is because it provides knowledge and awareness of different theoretical approaches to health and policy making and the ability to be able to promote reflective thinking around public service innovation
My second choice is the Public health geared toward leadership and management at the university of Sheffield .Apart that it has beautiful library, this course combines health management and health economics .This will permit me to know the challenges of financing the health sector

My third choice is the Masters of Public Health at the University of South Wales whereby I will be able to learn about various statististics and epidemiology of various infectious diseases that have been epidemic in my country

I am fully aware that one year of study in the UK will not only help me develop my educational and teaching skill ,but it will be an opportunity to communicate with other health professional with international views and mental concepts from a variety background

Scholarship / Qualities of survival - Chevening leaders or influencers in their home country [2]

1.Leadership and influence

I strongly agree that influence is on of the best qualities of survival. Especially in this new social media platforms where several career are taken and elevated by the influence of media. Former American president Barack Obama who used the internet to orchestrate the unprecedented political campaign mainly using social media as prime example, As such ,I am well aware that influence and leadership intertwined ,where one cannot exist without another

In primary school , I had a role of main leadership as a prefect in Young Jai Primary School Dodoma, whereby being an environmental prefect helped to ensure cleanliness throughout our environment by ensuring that all people who littered paper in the school compound were placed as watchers for other not to.
At secondary school, I was a leader in our fellowship session which was held every Sunday. I used to organize various sessions with different pastors in our vicinity to facilitate learning ,I also shared some of the sermon to facilitate learning. It was a part of insight too as it opened a deeper relationship with God.

At university, I found myself a leadership role as the class representative in my Developmental Studies session in my second year studies whereby I always used to find the venue and organize various seminar and find immediate supervisor of each seminars. Also I was a group leader throughout my fifth year clinical rotations such as surgery ad orthopaedics whereby I coordinated various session and organised bedside timetables with my seniors so as to facilitate learning. I have also done research concerning effective of pain medication in alleviating pain caused by dysmenorrhea among of secondary school girls.

Within the community however is where I enjoy exerting my influence as a leader ,because it has helped me to contribute toward the betterment of my society in my own little way .As a mentor at Huruma girls Secondary school I was able to guide young people in terms of professional and academic knowledge and mentoring. Currently I am working with the Nungwe home for the elderly to support them by donating food, clothes and some financial support