Short description: How to focus and build skills that will enable you to inform your research that will have both local and international impact. Guests: Fredros Okumu Soundbite: Marco Mello Episode description: Leonardo da Vinci’s quote “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” sets the stage for this week's episode. In this week's episode we discuss, how in spite of advances in technology and Hi-TECH methodologies that require high capital investments, answers can be found in the simplest of solutions. By focusing on local problems and ways to alleviate issues most immediately affecting the people around us we can focus our efforts on better health for everyone and achieve much better longer and more impactful benefit to the communities we live in.