Desiree Cox

Dr. Desiree Cox (Born 1964) is a Bahamian doctor. She became the first Rhodes Scholar from the Bahamas in 1987 when she obtained a scholarship to Pembroke College, Oxford. Cox studied medicine at Oxford and later philosophy at Cambridge before practising as a psychiatrist. She served as a consultant and special advisor on urban renewal to the Prime Minister of the Bahamas from 2004 to 2007. In 2009, she became the Director of Community Clinical Education at the Grand Bahama campus of Ross University.