PRESS RELEASE (February 8, 2021): – The Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization announce a change in their Representative in The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands, following the retirement of Dr. Esther de Gourville who served in that capacity between November 2016 and January 2021.
Dr. Eldonna Boisson has been appointed as
the new PAHO/WHO Representative in The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands
effective 27 January 2021.
Dr Boisson has been employed with PAHO/WHO
since 1998 and is well known for her work at PAHO/WHO’s Caribbean Sub-Regional
office, where she implemented technical cooperation projects and programmes in
26 Caribbean countries in the areas of Antimicrobial Resistance, capacity
building for the International Health Regulations (IHR), communicable diseases
surveillance and established strategic partnerships and collaborations with
regional and international health institutions and stakeholders.
Since January 2020 she also a member of the
PAHO/WHO Incident Management System Team (IMST) for the COVID-19 response in
which capacity she supported the English and Dutch speaking Caribbean countries
and United Nations Agencies in the areas of surveillance and travel health
measures.
Dr. Boisson’s prior work included
collaborative projects with the United Kingdom’s Public Health Agency, United
States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, European Centre for Disease
Prevention and Control (ECDC) and Public Health Agency Canada.
Dr. Boisson also headed the Epidemiology
Unit at the former Caribbean Epidemiology Centre (CAREC/PAHO/WHO) in Trinidad
and Tobago.
PAHO/WHO wishes Dr. Eldonna Boisson success
in her new assignment and looks forward to continued technical cooperation for
health development with The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands.
