Marie-Marcelle Deschamps

Marie-Marcelle Deschamps (born c.1953 She trained under Anthony Fauci in the early 1980s 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. and she has worked there for over 40 years. 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. GHESKIO had established itself as an AIDS and women's health centre but it grew into a hospital.

She was one of four candidates at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington DC for the Women Building Peace Awards. The other three were Pétronille Vaweka of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenyan Hamisa Zaja and Abir Haj Ibrahim from Syria. Pétronille Vaweka became the 2023 Women Building Peace Award Laureate.