Ms. Sacha Wallace-Sankarsingh, MSc, MPH (International Public Health), is an independent health security laboratory consultant with over fifteen years’ practical experience focused on laboratory systems strengthening at institutional, national, regional and international levels.

Sacha has worked throughout the Caribbean Region in both public and private sectors, and with inter-governmental organizations CAREC/PAHO, CARICOM-CARPHA; the PAHO/WHO Office for the Eastern Caribbean Countries and most recently in civil society with the International Federation of Biosafety Associations as their Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Region Program Coordinator.

At the international level, Sacha is a member of the current WHO Technical Advisory Group on Biosafety (WHO TAG-B), a working group member for various initiatives including the Global Partnership’s Signature Initiative with the Africa CDC; The Sustainable Laboratories Initiative and has previously served as Chair of the GHSA APP3 on Biosafety and Biosecurity (2020-2021) and IFBA Board member (2020-2023). Sacha is dedicated to the development of the field as a recognized profession in LAC and is a Director and Pioneer of the Caribbean Society for Biosafety and Biosecurity (CSBB).