Professor Michael Taylor

Department of Physics 

Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR)

Dr Paul Maragh
Professor Tara Dasgupta (and collaborators)
Department of Chemistry
Article:“Kinetic and Density Functional Theory (DFT) Studies of In Vitro Reactions of Acrylamide with the Thiols: Captopril, L-cysteine, and Glutathione”

Mr Robert Kinlocke
Department of Geography & Geology
Article:“We are not all the same!: Comparative Climate Change Vulnerabilities among Fishers in Old Harbour Bay, Jamaica”

Dr David Picking
Dr Rupika Delgoda
Dr Sylvia Mitchell
Dr Novie Younger
Natural Products Institute │Biotechnology Centre │TMRI - Epidemiology Unit
Article:“TRAMIL Ethnomedicinal Survey in Jamaica”

Dr Clinton Hutton

Department of Government

"Colour for Colour, Skin for Skin, Marching with the Ancestral Spirits in War Oh at Morant Bay | Leonard Percival Howell and the Genesis of Rastafari"

Dr Heather Ricketts
Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work
Article: “Unlimited Unskilled Labour and the Sex Segregation of Occupations in Jamaica”

Dr Suzette Haughton
Department of Government
Article: “The 2009 Jamaica-USA Extradition Affair: A "Securitized" Response to Jamaica's Drug Problem”

Dr Orville Taylor
Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work
Book: Broken Promises, Hearts and Pockets: A Century of Betrayal of the Jamaican Working Class

Dr Saran Stewart

School of Education

Articles: A mixed-method study of extra lessons in Jamaica: Methodological experiences and reflections | Advancing a critical and inclusive praxis: pedagogical and curriculum innovations for social change in the Caribbean | An alternative approach to standardized testing: a model that promotes racial equity and college access | Speaking from the margins: the experiences of a special educator’s praxis with culturally and linguistically diverse students | Predictors of student retention at the University of the West Indies | Schooling and Coloniality: Conditions underlying “extra lessons’ in Jamaica

Dr Dave Gosse
Department of History and Archaeology

Book: “Abolition and Plantation Management in Jamaica: 1807-1838”

Mrs Phyllis Coard
Dr Caroline Dyche
Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy

Article: “Integrating Psychological and Sociocultural Dimensions into the Teaching of English to UWI Students Who Speak Jamaican Creole:A Case Study”

Dr Loraine Cook
School of Education

Article: “Teacher Locus of Control: Identifying Differences in Classroom Practices”

Dr Livingston White,
CARIMAC
Ms Lovette Byfield,
UWI HARP (and collaborators)

Article: “Pinch, Leave an Inch and Roll: Applying the Communication-for-Behavioural-Impact (Combi) Approach to the Promotion of Proper Male Condom Use”

Dr Kathleen Monteith
Department of History and Archaeology

Article: “Boom and Bust in Jamaica’s Coffee Industry: 1790-1835”

Dr Dave Gosse
Department of History and Archaeology

Book:“Abolition and Plantation Management in Jamaica: 1807-1838”

Mrs Joan Spencer-Ernandez

Dr Deon Edwards-Kerr

School of Education

Project: “School of Education Centre for the Assessment and Treatment of Exceptionalities (Socate) Early Childhood Education Enhancement Project”

Professor Stephen Vasciannie

For producing three publications: "Arguments and Facts: Caribbean Public Law, Governance, Economy and Society” | "The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Reform and the Question of Universality" | "Constitutional Renewal in Jamaica: Republicanism?"

Mrs Suzanne Ffolkes-Goldson

Book: “Company Law in Jamaica” Professor Gilbert Kodilinye (and collaborator) Book:
“Commonwealth Caribbean Contract Law”

Mrs Suzanne Ffolkes-Goldson
For producing one book titled, “Commonwealth Caribbean Corporate Governance” and two chapters, ‘Duties and Responsibilities of Directors and Officers’ and ‘The Protection and Empowerment of Shareholders and other Stakeholders’

Dr Shazeeda Ali
For producing one book titled, “The Ethical Lawyer: A Caribbean Perspective” and two chapters, “Taking the Straight and Narrow Path” and “Good Lawyer, Bad Money: The Money Laundering Risk”

Dr Monika Asnani

Caribbean Institute for Health Research (CaIHR) 

For producing: “The Clinical Care Guidelines of the Sickle Cell Unit.” | “Pain, Sexual Activity and Partner Support in Jamaicans with Sickle Cell Disease.” | “Exploring Antecedents of Quality of Life of Sickle Cell Patients Using a Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Process Model based Framework.” | “Predictors of renal function progression in adults with homozygous sickle cell disease.” British Journal of Haematology | “Increased rates of body dissatisfaction, depressive symptoms and suicide attempts in Jamaican teens with sickle cell disease” | “Utility of paediatric quality of life and revised illness perception questionnaires in adolescents with sickle cell disease”

Dr Chuckwemeka Nwokocha

Department of Basic Medical Sciences

Inhibition of cytochrome P450 1 enzymes by apocynin and other Jamaican natural products: Assessing potential for chemoprevention and drug-herb interactions. In-vitro Bioassays and Chromatographic Analyses used to screen natural Products from Jamaica in the 21st century | Bioactive Plant Molecules, Sources and Mechanism of Action in the Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease | Hydroalcoholic extract and pure compounds from Senecio nutans Sch. Bip (Compositae) induce vasodilation in rat aorta through endothelium-dependent and independent mechanisms | Treatment of Rats with Apocynin has Considerable Inhibitory Effects on Arylamine N-Acetyltransferase Activity in the Liver | Hypotensive and antihypertensive effects of a hydroalcoholic extract from Senecio nutans Sch. Bip.  (Compositae) in mice: Chronotropic and negative | Synchronization in the Heart Rate and the Vasomotion in Rat Aorta: Effect of Arsenic Trioxide. Cardiovascular Toxicology | Single Adult human Equivalent Dose of Intramuscular Chloroquine did not Lower Blood Glucose Level in Fasted Wistar Rats | Effect of Vitamin C Supplementation on Platelet Aggregation and Serum Electrolytes Levels in Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetes Mellitus in Rats

Dr Angela Rankine-Mullings

Professor Marvin  Reid

Dr Deanne Soares

Mrs Karen Aldred

Caribbean Institute for Health Research (CaIHR) 

“Prevention of conversion to abnormal transcranial Doppler with hydroxyurea in sickle cell anemia: A Phase III international randomized clinical trial.”

Dr Helen Baker-Henningham
Professor Susan Walker (and collaborators)
Tropical Medicine Research Institute

Article: “Reducing child conduct problems and promoting social skills in a middle-income country: cluster randomised controlled trial”

Dr Carron Gordon,
Department of Basic Medical Sciences
– School of Physical Therapy
Professor Rainford Wilks,
Tropical Medicine Research Institute
Professor Affette McCaw-Binns,
Department of Community Health & Psychiatry

Article: “The effect of aerobic exercise (walking) training on functional status and health-related quality of life in chronic stroke survivors

Dr Sharifa Frederick, The Hugh Wynter Fertility Management Unit
Professor Joseph Frederick, The Hugh Wynter Fertility Management Unit
Professor Horace Fletcher, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Professor Marvin Reid, Tropical Medicine Research Institute
Dr Wendy Gardner, Department of Surgery, Radiology, Anaesthesia & Intensive Care (SURRADIC)
Dr Milton Hardie, Department of Community Health & Psychiatry

Article: “A trial comparing the use of rectal misoprostol plus perivascular vasopressin with perivascular vasopressin alone to decrease myometrial bleeding at the time of abdominal myomectomy.” Dr Belinda Morrison Professor Kathleen Coard Dr Richard Mayhew Dr William Aiken Department of Surgery, Radiology, Anaesthesia & Intensive Care (SURRADIC) & Department of Pathology Article: “Pathological outcome and biochemical recurrence-free survival following radical prostatectomy in African-American, Afro Caribbean (Jamaican) and Caucasian men: An international comparison”

Dr Belinda Morrison
Professor Kathleen Coard
Dr Richard Mayhew
Dr William Aiken
Department of Surgery, Radiology, Anaesthesia & Intensive Care (SURRADIC) & Department of Pathology

Article:“Pathological outcome and biochemical recurrence-free survival following radical prostatectomy in African-American, Afro Caribbean (Jamaican) and Caucasian men: An international comparison”

The Yam/Biotechnology Group:
Professor Helen Asemota
Dr Curtis Green
Dr Andrew Wheatley
Dr Lowell Dilworth
Dr Donovan McGrowder
Dr Dewayne Stennett
Dr Michael Gardner
Dr Dennis Bailey
Department of Basic Medical Sciences & Department of Pathology

For producing seven articles
Articles:     “Bioavailability of Essential Minerals from Staples Commonly Consumed in the Tropics”  | “Modulation of the antioxidant status of the hearts and brains of genetically modified hypercholesterolemic mice overproducing HDL cholesterol following acute bitter yam supplementation”  | “Effects of Dioscorea polygonoides (Jamaican Bitter Yam) supplementation in normocholesterolemic and genetically modified hypercholesterolemic mice species”  | “Effects of Acetylation on the Micromeritics of Yam (Dioscorea sp.) Starch Powder for Pharmaceutical Application”  | “Intestinal morphology assessments of rats fed phytic  acid extract from sweet potato(Ipomea batas) and IP6” | “Citrus peel polymethoxylated flavones extract modulates liver and heart function parameters in diet induced hypercholesterolemic rats”  | “Modulation of antioxidant enzymes activities and lipid peroxidation products in diet-induced  hypercholesterolemic rats fed Ortanique peel PMFs extract.”

Professor Marvin Reid
Tropical Medicine Research Institute
For 13 research publications

Articles:    “Determining glomerular filtration rate in homozygous sickle cell disease: utility of serum creatinine based estimating equations” | "Splenic enlargement in adults with homozygous sickle cell disease: the Jamaican experience" | Blood viscosity and the expression of inflammatory and adhesion markers in homozygous sickle cell disease subjects with chronic leg ulcers” | The effect of antenatal factors and postnatal growth on serum adiponectin levels in children" | Acute pyelonephritis in pregnancy: a retrospective descriptive hospital based study |Morinda citrifolia (Noni) as an Anti-flammatory treatment in women with primary Dysmenorrhoea: A Randomised Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial" | A trial comparing the use of rectal misoprostol plus perivascular vasopressin with perivascular vasopressin alone to decrease myometrial bleeding at the time of abdominal myomectomy"  | Locus of control, depression and quality of life among persons with sickle cell disease in Jamaica" | Mortality, asthma, smoking and acute chest syndrome in young adults with sickle cell disease” | Relationship between acute chest syndrome and the sympatho-vagal balance in adults with haemoglobin SS disease; a case control study” | A phase 1/2 trial of HQK-1001, an oral fetal globin inducer, in sickle cell disease" | "A dose-escalation phase IIa study of 2,2-dimethylbutyrate (HQK-1001), an oral fetal globin inducer in sickle cell disease” | Testosterone replacement therapy does not promote priapism in hypogonadal men with sickle cell disease: 12-month safety report"

Professor Celia Christie-Samuels,
Department of Child and Adolescent Health
Professor Russell Pierre,
Department of Child and Adolescent Health
Dr Orville Morgan,
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Dr Kevin Harvey,
Department of Medicine

Project: Elimination of Vertical (Mother-to-child) Transmission of HIV/AIDS and Congenital Syphilis in Jamaica