Dr. Edith Wakida
Implementation
Dr. Edith Wakida PhD, MA, MRA has supported grants in many capacities, she is currently the deputy director on a U54 MUDSReH grant,…… has worked as a Research Manager in the Office of Research Administration at MUST. On the MURTI grant (D43TW010128), she was responsible for research administration, ethics compliance, and communication; provides mentoring in research administration to the MURTI Fellows; oversaw MURTI program monitoring and evaluation; and prepared annual reports to NIH/FIC. She was the research administrative contact for the MUREEP grant (R25TW010507; PI: Gertrude Kiwanuka). On the TUITAH program, Ms. Wakida was Co-investigator in-charge of program coordination across partner institutions (and key Program Faculty for Specific Aim 4); she worked with the TUITAH Principal Investigator Prof. Obua in providing oversight for overall program implementation and ensuring compliance to the proposed statement of work. In addition, she is the lead research administrative contact with NIH for the grant and provides mentoring to the partner institutions to ensure compliance.