Colonel Christine Moody, born 1914
(Daughter of Harold Moody)
Doctor, member of Royal Army Medical Corps, Medical Officer with the Ministry of Health in Ghana, a pioneer in the early years of the United Nations, World Health Organisation, health advisor to the Philippines, advisor to the World Bank, Chief Medical Officer for Public Health in Jamaica.
After qualifying as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1938 she joined her father’s GP practices in south London.
Christine Moody became an officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps early in the Second World War, shortly after her brother Charles had become the first Black officer in the British Army. In 1944 she was put in charge of the British Military Hospital in Ambala in the Punjab. After the War, she spent ten years in Ghana as Senior Medical Officer with the Ministry of Health developing maternity, paediatrics and public health projects throughout the country.
She went on to act as consultant in the World Health Organisation and the World Bank, as an health advisor to the Philippines and as Chief Medical Officer for Public Health in Jamaica. The Jamaican government awarded her the Commander of the Order of Distinction in 1988.