• The 22-member National COVID Recovery Task Force appointed in April 2020 included Chancellor Robert Bermudez; Professors of Practice Gerry Brooks (co-Chair) and Winston Dookeran along with Karl Theodore, Professor Emeritus and Director
model requires an initial capital investment in the sum of TT$11M and a requirement for the offset of the annual losses during the years that the plan is implemented and the school increases its income. Breakeven would occur in the fifth year. At that time, the total additional cash injection is estimated at TT$44.2M but the total additional income would be TT$46.9M. Profit in Year 7 is estimated at over TT$11M. On March 13, 2020 the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago announced that effective March 14, 2020 all educational institutions across Trinidad and Tobago would be closed for an initial period as the country recorded its first case of COVID-19. Two weeks later the Campus moved from 34% online courses to almost 100% with training provided for both staff and students. Examinations and other services and processes followed suit. The campus was all but deserted, save for security, ICT, bursary and other critical staff. AGILITY •
of the Centre for Health Economics; and other distinguished alumni and current and former adjunct members of staff. Five members of the Campus community were appointed to the UWI COVID-19 Task Force: Professor Christine Carrington – Molecular Genetics and Virology, Professor Christopher Oura – Veterinary Virology, Dr. Katija Khan – Clinical Psychology, Professor Terence Seemungal – Pulmonology, and Dr. Gabrielle Hosein – Gender.
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The Campus supported the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Health in several ways including: o Use of halls of residence and dormitories for quarantine and step-down facilities o Use of Couva Multi-Training Facility for COVID-19 patients o Medical analytical, testing, laboratory access, and public communications support o Engineering design of PPE and ventilators to offset international supply chain restrictions
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Recruiting of more than 100 nursing students in the District Health Visiting programme to conduct contact tracing for the Ministry of Health
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