Caribbean Institute For Health Research

20/06/2025

CAIHR GOOD READS - Articles that capture our views

THE EDITOR, Madam: On June 18, KFC Jamaica marked its 50th anniversary with ‘Buy one, get one free’ promotion. Long lines formed outside outlets across the island many filled with schoolchildren still in their uniforms, and families eagerly...

30/01/2025

CAIHR in the News!
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20250130/food-fright

Dr Suzanne Soares-Wynter, a clinical nutritionist at the Caribbean Institute for Health Research, has described as “frightening” the findings of a recent United Nations report, which revealed that more than half of Jamaicans experienced moderate to...

10/01/2025

Celebrating 25 Years of Excellence!!
https://uwi.edu/caihr/media/pg-caihrcelebrates25.php

31/01/2024

Professor Marshall Tulloch-Reid and members of the LIFE project team will be on the "Too Live Crew" segment on RJR today, Wednesday, January 31, 2024 from 2:30 pm to 3:00 pm to talk about Heart disease and give updates about the Life Project.

Join us at 2:30 pm on 94 FM and invite friends, neighbors, relatives and other participants to learn more about cardiovascular disease and the project.

https://uwi.edu/caihr/media/pg-bringingncds.php

14/06/2023

📽️Happening Right Now: CAIHR's Dissemination Meeting sharing important findings from their two year COVID-19 Metabolic Health Study. Click the link below to Join us now.

CAIHR Dissemination Meeting 2023

12/06/2023

Mark your calendars! in collaboration with the Caribbean Centre for Health Systems Research and Development invites you to join us online this WED morning, for the public sessions of an insightful dissemination meeting.

Our investigators will share the preliminary findings and lessons learned from our Covid-19 Metabolic Health study conducted in Jamaica, Trinidad and Barbados: "The Impact of COVID-19 Control Measures on NCD Risk Factors and Metabolic Health: A comparison of 3 Caribbean Countries."

Don't miss this opportunity to learn more about this major study in the region!
Join us on our page and on our Youtube () page:

📅 This WED, June 14th
🕘 9:00AM (JA) / 10:00AM (T&T and Barbados),

Check out our summary here: https://bit.ly/CAIHRMeeting_PublicInvitation

17/05/2023

As part of CAIHR's contribution to the UWI's 75th anniversary celebrations three Inaugural Professorial Lectures will be delivered during 2023, the first by Prof. Marshall Tulloch Reid. Excellence.

17/03/2023

https://youtu.be/qXmWspqk4M4

The Regional Centre for SIDS is a collaboration between the University College London's Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change and the Caribbean Insti...

09/02/2023

CAIHR supports protecting our children.
’sInOurFood?

29/11/2022

Our Right to Know.
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20221129/andres-constantin-caricoms-front-package-labelling-conundrum

It has been four years since the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) began discussions on the adoption of a front-of-package labelling system to protect population health in the region. As a public- and global-health lawyer, I can confidently...

15/11/2022

Applications now open || Postgraduate Diploma in Health Research & Epidemiology.

Programme Details at https://uwi.edu/caihr/training/pg-dipepidemiology.php

Brochure https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LKNTFHJ9Fq1BEuoPrd3VcwtKGAkoUzcw/view