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Global Achievement Award for Cave Hill Alumna by Camille Russell
Dr. Nadine Rogers
nearly 30 years of experience in management, health policy implementation, science administration, and education and communications across the private, public, and non-profit sectors. This United States (U.S.) national has deep Caribbean roots that span Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, and Anguilla where
Africa, Zambia, and the Caribbean. She currently serves as the Country Director for the U.S. Peace Corps in the Cooperative Republic of Guyana. Dr. Rogers shares credit for pioneering distance learning at the American Red Cross —an expertise that she recently tapped while working with school teachers in Guyana. In 2018, she received a Franklin Award from the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam for her efforts on behalf of drug
When Cave Hill alumna Nadine Rogers graduated from the then Faculty of Arts and General Studies in 1988, little did she know that her just completed journey would set her on the road to international recognition. T oday, the 2022 recipient of the Global Achievement Award from the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association credits The UWI, Cave Hill Campus with giving her a solid start, a thirst for knowledge, a place to be creative, and the chance to develop lifelong friendships. Twenty years prior to receiving her global award, she had earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Health Policy and Management from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health . In addition to earning an Upper Second Class Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from Cave Hill, and her doctoral degree in 2002, she accumulated
her family gathered during the August school breaks. Cave Hill contemporaries recall the published poet’s involvement in calypso under the sobriquet Spitfire and being President of the Creative Writers’ Association . She has served as Foreign Service Officer at the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Health Diplomacy , and for 10 years, worked at the U.S. National Institutes of Health handling scientific review of multimillion- dollar research grant applications focused on HIV/AIDS prevention and services in populations at risk for or addicted to drugs, both domestically and internationally. Her deployment across the globe on behalf of the U.S. Government includes places such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Uganda, Ethiopia, South
President of Guyana, His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali greets Dr. Nadine Rogers.
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