Position: Director & Senior Lecturer
Institution: University of the West Indies School of Nursing (UWISoN), St Augustine, Trinidad
Dr Oscar Noel Ocho started off his career as a Nursing Assistant Trainee, at San Fernando General Hospital in 1981. He is also a qualified RN and currently serves as the Director, University of the West Indies School of Nursing (UWISoN), St Augustine as well as Director, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre (Nursing Leadership and Policy). He was a public servant for 34 years prior to joining the Faculty at UWI. Dr Ocho is a Population Leadership Fellow, University of Washington and a Caribbean Health Leadership Institute Scholar.
His academic qualifications include a BScN (Education) UWI, Mona, Jamaica 1995; MPH (International Health) University of Washington, Seattle, USA 2005, MPhil in Sociology UWI, St. Augustine, Trinidad 2007 and the Doctorate in Public Health with an emphasis on Public Health and Policy, University of London, 2013. He is the Director of the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing and Midwifery (Leadership and Policy). Dr Ocho has 23 peer-reviewed publications, 4 book chapters and 143 citations. His research interests include health systems, leadership and gender and health.
He has been married for the past 35 years to Mrs Pauline Craigwell Ocho, a retired Nurse Educator.
