Caribbean Centre for Health Systems Research and Development

Dr Shalini Pooransingh MBBCh, MPH (UK), DTM&H (UK), FFPH (UK)
Dr Shalini Pooransingh is Head, Department of Public Health and Primary Care and the Caribbean Centre for Health Systems Research and Development at the Faculty of Medical Sciences, The UWI, St. Augustine.

She is a medical doctor with certified public health specialist training from the UK. She is also a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians, UK. She has over 25 years' experience working in Public Health and has worked in the national health service in the UK and various WHO Regions where her work focussed on healthcare quality, communicable disease control and health security capacity building through implementation of the International Health Regulations in countries. At UWI St Augustine, she is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health where she teaches epidemiology, research methods, healthcare quality and empathy to undergraduate and postgraduate students. She coordinates the Master in Public Health programme.  She believes that everyone should have access to quality healthcare and upholds the principles of social justice.