Dr Sachalee Campbell of Jamaica seeks to make her mark in public health, mentorship after UWI/Johns Hopkins University

Excerpt from the Jamaica Gleaner. Written by Cecelia Campbell-Livingston February 11, 2021

Dr Sachalee Campbell speaks of her

 journey as a public health specialist

It has been a long, hard road to get to where she is now – a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and working with the Johns Hopkins- International Injury Research Unit (JH-IIRU).

Dr Sachalee Campbell responsibilities include doing research projects on different types of injuries worldwide, which enables them to influence changes to prevent injuries and its associated morbidity and mortality.

“By changes, I mean that we are able to influence policy and legislative changes, as well as other interventions to decrease injuries in different countries,” she shared on what the job entails.

Dr. Sachalee Campbell at
Johns Hopkins University

Campbell, who graduated from The University of the West Indies, Mona in 2015, said one of the major challenges she encountered was that of limited financial resources.

In combating that, she applied for “all kinds of financial aids” she knew about, which included the Peace and Love Academic Scholarship (PALAS), founded by Ruel ‘Rula’ Brown, and other corporate sponsors such as NCB Foundation and other stakeholders. more