Dr. Sheila Campbell-Forrester Appointed Chief Medical Officer of Jamaica

The Ministry of Health wishes to announce the appointment of Dr. Sheila Campbell-Forrester as the Chief Medical Officer of Jamaica.

Dr. Campbell-Forrester assumes the position of Acting Chief Medical Officer in September 2006 following the untimely passing of Dr. Barry Wint, Chief Medical Officer of Jamaica.

To the position Dr. Campbell-Forrester brings over thrity years of experience in the local and international public health.

Over the period 1978 through to 1997, Dr. Campbell Forrester served as Medical Officer of Health for a number of parishes and Senior Medical Officer of Health for the Western Area Health Administration of Jamaica.

She was appointed Regional Director of the Western Regional Health Authority in 1998, following studies at the Rollins School of Public Health, Department of International Health, Emory University in Atlanta.

She is an Adolescent Health Specialist and has served as Technical Advisor to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), United Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization (WHO). She served as a member of the Technical Steering Committee on Child and Adolescent Health at the World Health Organization and pioneered the first Adolescent Health Programme for St. James in 1984.

She is an adjunct lecturer for Adolescent Health at the University of the West Indies, and Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the Public Health Nursing Programme at the University of Technology (UTECH). Dr. Campbell-Forrester has also presented and co-authored several papers relating to adolescent health and other public health issues.

Dr. Campbell Forrester is also a graduate of the University of the West Indies with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) and a Diploma in Public Health.