Patricia Rodney

Patricia Rodney is a public health professional which she helped found in 2006 in memory of her husband. The foundation, which has its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, promotes education, health, and human development from a social justice perspective, and aims to improve lives and develop human resources through scholarship.

Personal life Before her life in advocacy, Rodney studied as a nurse. She married Guyanese scholar and social activist

Walter Rodney

Walter Rodney was a public speaker about the role of West Indians and other immigrants to England and their contributions to the United Kingdom. He campaigned for the working class rights and bottom-up community engagement, which he continued in Guyana, where he was denied a faculty position at the University of Guyana in 1974 on the intervention of the Guyana Government under the leadership of the Prime Minister Forbes Burnham. From 1974-1980 the family was harassed and under constant surveillance by police searches, extending to friends, relatives, and the children. Due to bomb threat Patricia and Walter were forced to stay at safe houses while their children stayed with relatives and friends. On 13 June 1980, a bomb exploded in Walter's car, killing him.

Independent career

Rodney's career has spanned more than 40 years across Africa, the Caribbean, and North America. She worked as an academic and mentor to international public health professionals,

She has been the CEO of Partners in Health, Education and Development (PHEAD) since 2011. As of 2019, she is an adjunct professor in the Department of Community Health & Preventive Medicine at the Morehouse School of Medicine.