Michael Campbell. PhD, MS, is recognized with this APA Citizen Psychologist Presidential Citation for his sustained service and leadership in psychology and a wide range of activities across organizations and countries throughout the Caribbean.
Campbell has served as chair of the University of the West Indies—Cave Hill/Barbados Ministry of Health IRB since 2006 and as vice-chair of the Research Ethics Committee of the Caribbean Public Health Association. Campbell has also chaired the UWI—Cave Hill HIV and AIDS Response Programme since 2010.
More broadly, he has served on the Caribbean Regional HIV Stigma and Discrimination Advisory Group, as vice-chair of the Governor’s Local Advisory Council for Southwest Florida, and as chair of the Technical Advisory for the Barbados National Heart and Stroke Registry. Beyond psychology, Campbell has been active in higher education through his service as secretary, treasurer and president of the New College of Florida Alumnae/i Association and as a trustee of New College Foundation.
Campbell has also provided pro bono clinical services to a wide variety of persons throughout his career. He served as a mental health member on the Sara-Mana Critical Incident Stress Management Team from 1998 to 2004, providing support to first responders and others in response to natural disaster, mass casualty and suicide. He has continued this work on a less formal basis in the Caribbean and has provided trauma response to groups in Barbados and St. Vincent in the Grenadines, working with government, military and church organizations, as well as privately. His endorsers also speak to his versatile, energetic style which makes a lasting positive impact on all with whom he works.
Campbell is a tenured lecturer in behavioural science/psychology and faculty member of medical sciences of the University of the West Indies–Cave Hill Campus. He also has appointments at Yale and New College of Florida. He earned his BA in psychology and Latin American studies from New College of Florida in 1991, his MS in geography at Florida State University in 1993, and his PhD in counseling psychology at the University of Florida in 1998. He is a licensed psychologist in Florida, a registered psychologist in Barbados, and a chartered psychologist in the United Kingdom.
Campbell has professional memberships in APA (divisions 30, 34, and 52), British Psychological Society, International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, World Federation of Mental Health and Sociedad Interamericana de Psicologia. He is a founding member of the Bioethics Society of the (English-speaking) Caribbean and a member of the Barbados Society of Psychology where he held a number of elected positions, including his recently completed term as resident (2015-17).