Late OID president remembered for dedication to enhancing women’s health services

BRONX, NY:

Hundreds gathered at the Butler United Methodist Church, 3920 Paulding Avenue, Bronx, on Saturday, November 30, to say farewell to Dr Michelle Malcolm James, who was president of the Organisation for International Development (OID), up to the time of her death in October.

Malcolm James, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, who left Manchester, Jamaica for the USA in 1979, served the registered, healthcare-centred organisation for some 26 years in a number of capacities. She will be best remembered for spearheading the mobile mammography initiative, aimed at providing breast and cervical cancer screening for women in rural, urban and remote areas in Jamaica, annually. The gesture reflected her lifelong commitment to enhancing women’s health services, especially in under-served communities.

Malcolm James was employed as the wellness clinical manager for Con Edison at the Orange & Rockland County Utilities.

Her homegoing service was conducted by the Rev Dr Allen Pinckney, Jr, with Rev Noel Chin saying a prayer of comfort. There were outpourings of tributes by family and friends, including – brother Shaun Malcolm, Dr Roy Streete, OID founder/chairman, and Denise Soares, OID secretary and her friend.

A proclamation from the office of NY State Senator Jamaal T. Bailey, citing her years of dedication to the youth and medical communities, was presented to the family.

She is survived by her parents, Babia Lewin and Desmond Malcolm, her husband Andre, daughters Ashley and Anika, brother Shaun, sisters Detha and Danielle, and other relatives.

She was interred at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.