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Miriam Mutebi: One Small Grant, One Big Difference
Aug 9, 2025, 17:05

Miriam Mutebi: One Small Grant, One Big Difference

Miriam Mutebi, Breast Surgical Oncologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Aga Khan University Hospital, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“One Small Grant, One Big Difference.

Imagine you’re a young oncologist in Nigeria or Tanzania. You see, patients drop out mid-treatment.

You have an idea why, but no funding to test it.

A microgrant grants you $1,000 – $5,000.

You use it to survey patients, to confirm the ‘hidden costs’ that push them to stop care. With the new data, you can develop actions to address the same in your institution.

You then compare and contrast. You find out whether the same is true in other local hospitals.

With colleagues, you pull together resources to identify whether the factors are the same and whether the strategies work. With this added data, you push for policy changes.

Next year, thousands more will stay on cancer treatment because of your work.

This is not hypothetical; this is what microgrants unlock. Simple, local, powerful.

This, my friends, is also how we close Africa’s research gap…, together.

More on the ‘how’ in future posts. Share if this strikes a chord.”

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