Joyce Earnestine Roache is the Principal Infection Prevention and Control Officer for the Ministry of Health in Samoa with 13-years’ experience in IPC, following 7-years of Nursing in the Paediatric Unit and 1-year in the Outpatient Department.
She obtained her Bachelor Degree of Nursing in 2006 from the National University of Samoa, and later went on to pursue a Graduate Diploma in Infection Prevention and Control from the Waiariki Institute of Technology, New Zealand in 2015.
She is a certified Hand Hygiene Gold Standard Auditor and is an active member of the Pacific Infection Prevention and Control Network (PICNet) and current chair for both PICNet and PICNet Technical Working Group.