She has received awards for her forty years leading the health facility that she helped found including the Legion of Merit.

[2] She trained under Anthony Fauci in the early 1980s[3] as she completed post-graduate studies at the National Institute of Health in Maryland (NIH) and the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.

Haiti has no president; its prime minister was exiled and the main hope of regaining order in 2024 was 300 Kenyan police officers who had arrived in 2024 to help a country subject to gang law and anarchy.

[3] The work focuses on supporting women heads of households and rape victims with both medicine, money and other assistance.

The other three were Pétronille Vaweka of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenyan Hamisa Zaja and Abir Haj Ibrahim from Syria.