Professor Hopeton Dunn

Ms Olivia Bravo 

Dr Maria Protz

CARIMAC 

Project:  “Energy Efficiency and Enhancement Project – Communication and Public Education Programme”

Most Outstanding Researcher
Professor Terrence Forrester
SODECO

For producing 13 articles for the period under review
Articles: “Daily activity patterns of 2316 men and women from five countries differing in socioeconomic development” │“Prevalence of behavioural risk factors for cardiovascular disease in adolescents in low-income and middle-income countries: an individual participant data meta-analysis” │ “Association of car ownership and physical activity across the spectrum of human development: Modeling the Epidemiologic Transition Study (METS)” │ “Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology” │“New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution” │ “Reply to T Weishaar. Am J Clin Nutr” │ “Biological interpretation of genome-wide association studies using predicted gene functions” │ “Under-reporting of dietary energy intake in five populations of the African diaspora” │ “Elevated hypertension risk for African-origin populations in biracial societies: modeling the Epidemiologic Transition Study” │ “Distribution of metals exposure and associations with cardiometabolic risk factors in the "Modeling the Epidemiologic Transition Study” │ “Richer but fatter: the unintended consequences of microcredit financing on household health and expenditure in Jamaica” │ “Association between smoking and total energy expenditure in a multi-country study” │ “Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height”

Dr Collette Cunningham-Myrie
Department of Community Health and Psychiatry
For publishing five (5) articles for the period of high quality and with impact factors ranging from 2.302 – 3.790

Articles:WHO/ISH total risk approach for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease shows greater decrease in costs for women but not the elderly in Jamaica ” │ “Hydroxyurea use in prevention of stroke recurrence in children with sickle cell Disease in a Developing Country: A Cost Effectiveness Analysis │ “Associations between Neighbourhood Effects and Physical Activity, Obesity and Diabetes: The Jamaica Health and Lifestyle Survey 2008” │ “Richer but fatter: the unintended consequences of microcredit financing on household health and expenditure in Jamaica” │“Impact of a comprehensive sickle cell center on early childhood mortality in a developing country: the Jamaican experience”

Most Outstanding Research Activity
Professor Maureen Samms-Vaughan
Department of Child & Adolescent Health
Activity:For publishing 10 papers during the period under review; seven (7) of which focused on spectrum disorder, genetic, and environmental factors associated with autism, which has had two main areas of focus: Genes, the environment and their impact on autism and child development, and the use of birth cohort studies to identify factors impacting children’s early development and their adult health

Professor Jessica Byron
Department of Government
Articles: “Development Regionalism in Crisis? Rethinking CARICOM, Deepening Relations with Latin America” │ “CARICOM Foreign Policy since 2009: A Search for Coherence in National and Regional Agendas” │ “The "Slums of Empire" and Gordon K. Lewis: Reflections on Decolonization and Sovereignty in the Caribbean” │ “A Caribbean Perspective on Regionalism: What Role for CELAC?" “Responses to the Sovereignty/ Vulnerability/Development Dilemmas: Small Territories and Regional Organizations in the Caribbean”