New chief medical officer appointed
DR Sheila Campbell-Forrester has been appointed chief medical officer, filling the vacancy left last September by the death of Dr Barry Wint.
Dr Campbell-Forerster, who has more than 30 years of experience in local and international public health, had been acting as chief medical officer up to the announcement of her appointment by the Ministry of Health yesterday.
Between 1978 and 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 served as technical advisor to the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organisation (WHO). She also served as a member of the Technical Steering Committee on Child and Adolescent Health at the World Health Organisation and pioneered the first Adolescent Health Programme for St James in 1984.
Dr Campbell-Forrester is a graduate of the University of the West Indies with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) and a Diploma in Public Health.
