On Dr. Carissa Etienne’s ascension as Director of the Pan American Well being Group (PAHO), in September 2021, her alma mater, The College of the West Indies (UWI) hailed it as “a proud second for the Caribbean and for our College.”
Now on this second of deep unhappiness on her sudden passing, the College joins with the worldwide neighborhood in memorializing this Caribbean nationwide who has been on the helm of the world’s oldest and foremost public well being organisation.
A graduate of The UWI, Mona Campus, Dr. Etienne started her directorship 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 suggest the award of the honorary diploma of Physician of Science to her, introduced on the commencement ceremony hosted at The UWI, Cave Hill Campus that 12 months.
Final 12 months, Dr. Etienne acquired the Chancellor’s Award introduced to PAHO on the thirteenth Annual UWI Toronto Profit Awards held on June 25, 2022, underneath the theme: “One Caribbean …. World Affect”.
Dr. Etienne acquired each her Bachelor of Medication and Bachelor of Surgical procedure from The UWI Mona Campus. She held senior positions at PAHO and the World Well being Organisation (WHO), and through her tenures, led the efforts to resume main well being care and to strengthen well being methods primarily based on main well being care, selling integration and improved functioning of well being methods. Notably, at PAHO she adeptly steered the area’s responses to the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic in addition to the Zika and chikungunya epidemics.
Providing heartfelt sympathies on behalf of the College, Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Hilary Beckles stated, “Carissa Etienne was not merely a pal 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 at The UWI, mourn her sudden transition, and this her newest step which takes her now into the religious dimension. We provide our most honest condolences on her passing.”
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