KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The College of the West Indies (UWI) has described the late former director of the Pan American Well being Group (PAHO), Dr. Carissa Etienne, as a “daughter of this noble establishment,” because it joined the area and the broader worldwide neighborhood in providing condolences on her “sudden passing” final Friday.
The Dominican-born Dr. Etienne died at a hospital in the USA on Friday after collapsing at her dwelling. She was 71 years previous.
In an announcement, UWI recalled that when she was elected as PAHO’s director in 2013, the area’s premier tertiary establishment hailed it as “a proud second for the Caribbean and our College.”
“Now, on this second of deep disappointment on her sudden passing, the College joins the worldwide neighborhood in memorializing this Caribbean nationwide who has been on the helm of the world’s oldest and foremost public well being group.”
It stated that Dr. Etienne, a graduate of the UWI, Mona Campus, Etienne started her directorship of PAHO in February 2013, following within the “illustrious footsteps of Chancellor Emeritus of the UWI, Sir George Alleyne of Barbados.
“Later in 2016, the Council and Senate of the College have been happy to advocate the honorary diploma of Physician of Science to her,” it stated, including that final 12 months, Dr. Etienne acquired the Chancellor’s Award that had been offered to PAHO.
The UWI stated that in her stint on the PAHO and the World Well being Group (WHO), she led the efforts to resume major well being care and strengthen well being programs based mostly on major well being care, selling integration and improved functioning of well being programs.
Notably, at PAHO, it added that she adeptly steered the area’s responses to the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic and the Zika and chikungunya epidemics.
“Carissa Etienne was not merely a buddy of this College. We claimed her as a daughter of this noble establishment and took pleasure in each step of her distinguished profession as a well being skilled.
“We, her household right here on the UWI, mourn her surprising transition, and that is her newest step, which takes her into the non secular dimension. We provide our most honest condolences on her passing,” stated UWI Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles.
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