Dr. Syndie Saint-Hilaire was born in Haiti, earned her medical degree, and a certificate in pediatrics from the State University of Haiti. She specialized in children living with HIV while ensuring that their care encompassed all recommended immunizations, check-ups, and other procedures recommended for all children. Frustrated with her inability to support more than just one child at a time, she studied public health in France.

She has worked at CMMB since then. She has been involved with virtually all CMMB programs, including our prosthetics and orthotics training program for amputees, an ongoing project with lepers, a GFGF/PMI-funded malaria program, and a CDC-funded SIDALE program, but over the last few years, she has supported the MOH to respond to the COVID-19 and then the CHOLERA outbreak.

She has been involved in starting up the Haiti site of CMMB’s holistic, self-funded CHAMPS program; this program address the social determinants of health via a health education and economic empowerment program (supported by ASCPs and an agronomist) as well as deficiencies in local facilities— she has helped build a hospital in the CHAMPS area (Côtes-de-Fer) and Dr. Saint-Hilaire has coordinated the upgrading of the hospital to MSPP standards.