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Dr. Geoffrey Frankson is a Belize National Scholar and a graduate of the University of the West Indies in medicine, with honours and a gold medal in Obstetrics. He studied Human Sciences at Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, followed by post-graduate research on concepts of health among diabetics.

He has lived and worked in Jamaica, The Bahamas, Barbados, and in Trinidad and Tobago, where he has variously been in general practice, a medical officer in the sugar industry, and co-managing director of Families In Action, an NGO largely involved in drug rehabilitation and Employee Assistance Programmes.

He has been a director of the Northwest Regional Health Authority; a member of the Vision 2020 sub-committee on health; a member of the Essential National Health Research Council, and a commissioner on the Commission of Inquiry into the Public Health Services.

He was a regular columnist in the press, a radio host, a part-time lecturer at the University of the West Indies and the Institute of Business, and a consultant on a Caricom project on poverty and health in the Caribbean. He has published books on sex education for children, a collection of medical and other essays, and numerous articles in various periodicals. His most recent publication, “Living Well”, is now in the bookstores.

He is a former national squash player and an avid golfer. In 2004, he won the Prime Minister’s Award for Innovation and Invention.