Climate Change and Health Leaders Fellowship Training Program

Linnees Green-Baker is an Environmental Health Specialist, with responsibility for Institutional Health within the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Jamaica. Ms. Green-Baker maintains an MPH in Health Promotion and Education, a BSc in Environmental Studies, and Diplomas in Meats and Other Foods Inspections, and Public Health Community Sanitation from the Northern Caribbean University, the University of Technology (UTECH), Jamaica, and the West Indies School of Public Health, respectively.  Her technical capabilities include Public Health Inspection, Public Health Regulatory Compliance, Health Promotion, and Protection, Health Management and Leadership, and network mobilization.

Before her role as Environmental Health Specialist at the national level, Ms. Green-Baker functioned for six years as the Chief Public Health Inspector (CPHI) and two years as Deputy Chief Public Health Inspector of the parish of Clarendon, developing, administering, and managing environmental public health and sanitation programmes including community sanitation, outbreak investigations, port health and quarantine, vector control, food safety, veterinary public health, institutional health, water, and wastewater programmes. Within her tenure as CPHI, she served as a member of the Local Parish Council’s Public Health and Sanitation, Town and Country Planning and Development, and Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management Committees. 

Ms. Green-Baker has over twenty years of distinguished service in Public Health, of which she served twelve years as a junior field officer coordinating and implementing food safety and community sanitation programmes through monitoring and surveillance, community mobilization, and inter-sectoral collaboration.

In addition to her public health engagements, Mrs. Green-Baker currently serves as a part-time local tutor at the UWI, Mona (Open Campus), a member of the Academic Advisory Board for UTECH, Jamaica, and a Board of Visitors Member for the Child Development Agency.

 Mrs. Green-Baker balances her professional life by being an actively involved mother, devoted wife, and practicing Christian. She enjoys having “a good laugh,” backyard farming.