Patrece Charles-Freeman is a Jamaican public and environmental health consultant, as well as a political candidate with the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).
Her work faced significant opposition from industry, with Jamalco threatening to cut off the water supplies of study participants, while other government-linked companies refused to disclose their monitoring data to her.
Later that year, she founded the Phoenix Counselling Centre, an organisation which aims to improve the physical, emotional, psychological, and social well-being of inner-city families; her work there includes play therapy with disadvantaged children.
[4] Under Charles-Freeman's tenure, JADCO implemented programmes to combat doping in sport as mandated by the World Anti-Doping Agency, focusing particularly on education of junior athletes.
Ferguson credited Charles-Freeman's strong performance to efforts at improving turnout among erstwhile JLP voters who had not cast ballots in a long time.