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Early Career Research Forum – Introducing Professor T. Alafia Samuels
May 11, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Early Career Research Forum
Introducing Professor T. Alafia Samuels
In this online ECR Forum Dr Feyi Wayas of the University of Cape Town will have a career journey talk with Professor T. Alafia Samuels of the University of the West Indies, followed by a Q & A session.
Date: Thursday 11 May 2023
Time: 15:00 GMT (10:00 JA, 11:00 HA & US/EST, 12:00 BR, 16:00 UK, NI & CR, 17:00 SA, 18:00 KY)
Join this Zoom event at: https://mrc-epid.zoom.us/j/98261132418?pwd=QzRsZ1AzMzlIUVRwaU1WTlFQc3Y2Zz09
Meeting ID: 982 6113 2418
Passcode: 225134
About Professor T. Alafia Samuels
T. Alafia Samuels is an honorary Professor at the Caribbean Institute for Health Research at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Jamaica, and was Director of the George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre, CAIHR, UWI in Barbados until her retirement in 2019.
She is a medical doctor and also holds a Masters in Public Health and a PhD in Chronic Disease Epidemiology, from Johns Hopkins University.
She was the co-Principal Investigator for the formal evaluation of the CARICOM Heads of Government 2007 Port of Spain NCD Summit Declaration and was the Principal Investigator for the follow-on project “Improving Household Nutrition Security and Public Health in CARICOM”. She is NCD Advisor to Healthy Caribbean Coalition, Chair of NCD Child, Lancet Commissioner for their One Health commission and a member of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group (STAG) on NCDs.
Her research interests include policy and practice in NCD prevention and control, clinical quality of care, evaluation of NCD programmes and translation of evidence into practice. She is a strident advocate and in 2016 a Lancet profile (read PDF) dubbed her “the fast food watchdog of the Caribbean”.