My name is Altynshash Rakhat. I earned my MD from the Kazakh National Medical University named after S.D. Asfendiyarov and recently completed a Master of Public Health at the Nazarbayev University School of Medicine. I am currently pursuing a PhD in Global Health at Nazarbayev University, where my research focuses on cervical cancer screening, with a particular emphasis on the implementation of innovative self-sampling approaches to enhance early detection.