Research Interest:

• Preeclampsia (PE). The role of genetic predisposition, dietary factors and oxidative stress. Investigation of several biochemical markers in the placenta of women who developed PE.
• Cervical cancer. The role of lifestyle and sexual practices, genetic predisposition and oxidative stress in this sexually transmitted infection. Prevalence of Human papillomavirus infection.
• Diabetes. Assessment of knowledge of the disease and glycaemic (sugar) control in men and women with diabetes attending the Diabetic Clinic at the UHWI.
• Nutrition. Levels and types of phytoestrogens in some common Jamaican foods.
• Immunology. Investigation of the use of bacterial Ig receptors in immunological assay techniques and of the development of antibodies with the potential to serve as therapeutic vaccines in microbial infections.

Selected Publications:

• Duff, Edith M., N. M. Anderson and E. S. Copper. Plasma insulin-like growth factor -1, Type 1 Procollagen and serum tumor necrosis factor alpha in children recovering from Trichuris Dysentery Syndrome. Peadiatrics 103.5 (1999): 69
• Mbanya, J. C., J. Kennedy Cruickshank, Terrence E. Forrester, B. Balkau, J. Y. Ngogang, Lisa K. Riste, A. Forhan, N. M. Anderson, Franklyn I. Bennett and rainford J. Wilks. Standardized comparison of glucose intolerance in West African-Origin populations of rural and urban Cameroon, Jamaican and caribbean migrants to Britain. Diabetes Care. 22.3 (1999): 434-40.
• Eulalia K Kahwa., Lincoln A. Sargeant, Norma McFarlane-Anderson, Monica Smikle, Terrence Forrester and Rainford J Wilks. Anticardiolipin antibodies and risk of thromboembolic disease in young Jamaican women. Journal of Cardiovascular Risk. 8. (2001): 349-54.
• J. K Cruickshank, J. C. Mbanya, R. Wilks, B. Balkau, N mcFarlane-Anderson and T Forrester. Sick genes, sick individuals or sick populations with chronic disease? The emergence of diabetes and high blood pressure in African-origin populations. Internationsal Journal of Epidemiology. 30. (2001): 111-17.

Graduate students

• A JustizVaillant
• R Hunt
• N Levy
• G Simon
• P Bazuaye
• S Howell
• D Garwood