Ministry of Health: Public Health Scholarships
The Ministry of Health has announced that the application period for the Dr. Barbara Ball Public Health Scholarship will open on Mon April 12 and close on May 20, 2010.
Scholarships may be offered for study in a wide variety of health related disciplines including: nursing, occupational therapy, speech therapy, maternal care, dental hygiene, dentistry, psychiatry, drug counseling, social work, occupational safety and health, environmental health and medical studies.
The Ministry of Health launched the Scholarship in April 2008 to recognise Dr. Ball’s heroism in the medical profession and the labour movement of Bermuda. The late Minister of Health, Nelson Bascome described Dr. Ball as a hero of the Bermudian people and one who has blazed a trail in order to make life better for those who have come behind her.
Application forms for the Dr. Barbara Ball Health Scholarship are available at the Ministry of Health Headquarters and can be downloaded from the Bermuda Government website here.
Applicants must:
- Be a resident of Bermuda
- Possess Bermuda status or be the dependent of a Bermudian
- Be accepted for admission to an approved programme of study in an accredited institution
- Achieving the minimum academic requirements for their programme of study, if in an existing programme
About Dr. Ball:
Dr. Ball was born in Bermuda on 13 June 1924. She was highly respected and popular in the black community of Bermuda as a liberal, and an anomaly in the 50′s and 60′s, as a white, female doctor who strongly and publically supported the PLP and civil rights movement.
In 1962, Dr. Ball became the General Secretary of the Bermuda Industrial Union and despite the pressures of her labour career, she maintained a thriving medical practice, treating all races and ethnicities.
Dr. Ball served as a Progressive Labour Party [PLP] Opposition Member of Parliament for two successive terms in 1968 and 1972. She was also the first Member of Parliament to hold the position of Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee.
She was the first female doctor to practice medicine in Bermuda; the first female black-belt judo expert; the first medical practitioner to be suspended from the hospital; the first white person to hold an official post with the Bermuda Industrial Union; the first female to represent Bermuda’s workers before the United Nations; the first female official of the Bermuda Industrial Union to be elected to the House of Assembly and to date, the only female to appear before the Supreme Court on two occasions to answer charges relating to political and social activism.
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