Faculty from McMaster’s Mary Heersink School of Global Health and Social Medicine Visits Caribbean Partners

Faculty from Mary Heersink School of Global Health and Social Medicine spent a few days in the Caribbean meeting with research, community, and clinical partners working together on two funded research projects aimed at reducing chronic disease risk factors across the life-course together with health system strengthening. This program of research seeks to improve cardiovascular health and include partners from Jamaica, Guyana, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Dominica. A day was spent at The University of the West Indies (Cave Hill)  planning, discussing, reflecting, and actioning how to optimally harness the vision of this project into real-life implementation. The team also had chance to witness the opening of the Barbados Living Laboratory led by Dr. Juliet Daniel and Prof. Simon Anderson.