Ocho to head nursing school
The UWI St. Augustine Campus has appointed Dr. Oscar Noel Ocho as the Director of The UWI School of Nursing (UWISoN).
Dr. Oscar Noel Ocho is a qualified Registered Nurse (RN) and has served in a number of departments within the Ministry of Health encompassing Registered Nurse, Nursing Educator, Health Education Officer, Director and until recently the Acting Chief Nursing Officer.
Dr. Ocho is a Packard/Gates Population Leadership Fellow from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA as well as one of the first cohort of professionals who participated in the Caribbean Health Leadership Institute scholarship programme for health leaders in the Caribbean 2007/2008.
His academic qualifications include a BScN (Education) from The UWI, Mona, Jamaica (1995); MPH (International Health) University of Washington, Seattle, USA 2005 and MPhil in Sociology from The UWI, St. Augustine (2007) and a Doctorate in Public Health with an emphasis on Public Health and Policy since 2013 from the London School of hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Dr. Ocho has served as a motivational speaker to youth in the Caribbean including Trinidad and Tobago as well as Grenada, St. Vincent, Barbados and Guyana. He has also served as Vice President of the Nursing Council of Trinidad and Tobago as well as Chairman for Casa de Corazon; a home for abused children in Trinidad and Tobago. |
