Prof. T. Alafia Samuels
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Thelma Alafia Samuels was a professor at CAIHR. She was a Director of the George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre of CAIHR from 2015 until her retirement at the end July 2019.
Dr Samuels is a medically qualified Epidemiologist. Following medical school at the University of the West Indies (Mona) she went on to pursue a Masters in Public Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and a PhD in Chronic Disease Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University, both degrees awarded with honours.
Research & Teaching Interests
Her research interests include policy and practice in NCD prevention and control, clinical quality of care and evaluation of NCD programmes. She is a member of the Barbados National NCD Commission and the principal author of the Barbados Ministry of Health Strategic Plan of Action for NCDs 2015-2019, and the CARICOM/PAHO Strategic Plan of Action for the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases. She leads the Healthy Campus Initiative at UWI Cave Hill, a workplace wellness programme.
Publications
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Contact
Telephone
(246) 426-6416
alafiasam@gmail.com
