Climate Change and Health Leaders Fellowship Training Program

Ayanna Alexander is a medical doctor with a MPH in public health. She spent 4 years in the public hospital system in Jamaica before branching off into public health. As a public health professional, Ayanna has a strong interest in communicable and non-communicable diseases and the social determinants of health in vulnerable communities.

A graduate of the George Washington University in Washington DC, United States of America,  and the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Ayanna is passionate about the Caribbean region and, a Trinidadian by birth, considers herself a child of the region. As such, together with a Jamaican colleague, she co-founded Transformational Research and Innovation (TRI) Ltd a full-service agency with a network of public health specialists and other professionals offering services directed toward the reform and improvement of the health of the people in the Caribbean Region.  As an individual, and through TRI, Ayanna has been conducting research in public health for the past 6 years. Among other areas she has conducted research in HIV, STIs, Maternal health and climate change in the Caribbean region.  She has and continues to work as a consultant with several regional and multi-national organisations.

Ayanna recognizes that optimal health encompasses the physical, mental, social and environmental well-being of persons and TRI provides services geared towards achieving this goal. Ayanna recognizes that climate change is the biggest threat to the health of all of us living in these Caribbean waters. Recognising that a healthy population is a resilient population this fellowship will give her the tools to work towards increasing the climate resilience of her fellow CARICOM nationals by creating facilitative environments that allow us in the region to not only survive but to thrive!