The Early Career Champions is a mentorship programme which brings together doctoral candidates and mentors from the universities of Helsinki and Nairobi.

As part of the strategic partnership between the University of Helsinki and the University of Nairobi, the One Health Early Career Champions program promotes career advancement and international networking of early career researchers from various disciplinary backgrounds, focusing on One Health.

The programme will be conducting a week long workshop at various places in the University of Nairobi including, KAVI-Institute of Clinical Research and the Centre of Epidemiological Modelling & Analysis (CEMA), Wangari Mathai Institute among others. The workshop will be from the 29th of January  - the 2nd of February 2024.

The ECC program covers a range of One Health research areas, including virology, anti-microbial resistance, food and nutrition. It welcomes applicants from all disciplinary backgrounds who can demonstrate an understanding of how their research fits into this theme