Norah Matheka
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Norah’s background spans from Business Administration and Management, to Business Communication, Community Development, Management of Information Systems, Health and Safety, Basic First Aid as well as Nutrition. She currently serves as the program assistant in the Department of Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health in Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya. There are 2 NIH grants that she directly has supported and still supports. One grant (G11) was to mainly build research administration capacity for the administrators in Aga Khan University. The second grant (D43) is a training grant in the area of infectious diseases and HPV training for fellows and faculty at Aga Khan University which has now been extended to qualified applicants from organizations that Aga Khan University collaborates with in relation to research. One of the grants (G11) ended in March 2022.
She possesses great leadership skills with over 20 years’ experience in the field of administration, business management and accounting. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and management (Daystar University), cumulative GPA of 3.38/4.00. She received a higher diploma in Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS) - (Strathmore College/University).
Norah volunteered with an organization known as CAREFORCE in the United Kingdom specifically in London with All Souls Church where she assisted with the various programs. She worked with Sisilo Childcare Centre where she worked as a marketing officer, she then moved to African Inland Mission (AIM). At AIM she worked as payables officer, cashier and subsequently to Accounts Assistant. Thereafter she joined Light of Africa (LoA) as a bookkeeper/ administrator, a position that introduced her to the area of human resources.
Her first experience in the area of clinical research was with University of Washington – TREE program in 2012 as a program administrator. This position catapulted her to various facets of research administration from adhering to sponsors requirements regarding expenses, observation of study protocol by assisting study monitors when they visited the study as well as exposure to grant proposal submission.
My motivations are derived from spiritual, physical, mental and family/friends. Spiritual in that I am a born again Christian and depend a lot on God’s guidance through Jesus Christ, hope of a better tomorrow. In regard to physical I love running, walking and aerobics amongst other fitness activities. My mental motivation comes from within where I challenge myself that, “it others have done it, why not me”. Family and friends have been many times an anchor in my life, and I receive a lot of motivation from them. In this world you need family as well as friends you can count on.
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