Jenniffer Mabuka is a research scientist and program manager for H3Africa at the African Academy of Sciences in Nairobi, Kenya. Her portfolio includes the management and implementation of four projects within the H3Africa consortium and the development of an open access platform aimed at bringing together key stakeholders in the African clinical trials space. She is a 2018 Aspen New Voices Fellow. The opinions expressed here are personal and not that of H3Africa or AAS.