T. Alafia Samuels
T. Alafia Samuels is the director of the George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre at the Caribbean Institute for Health Research in the University of the West Indies in Barbados. She is a medical doctor, trained at UWI Mona, and holds a master’s in public health and a PhD in chronic disease epidemiology. She is a member of the Barbados National NCD Commission and was the principal investigator for the formal evaluation of the CARICOM Heads of Government2007 Port of Spain NCD Summit Declaration.She is a board member of Defeat NCDs and of NCD Child, and a commissioner for the global Lancet One Health Commission.
