Thelma Alafia Samuels MBBS, MPH, PhD

Thelma Alafia Samuels is the Director, Chronic Disease Research Centre of CAIHR, and the Deputy Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus Barbados. Dr Samuels is a medically qualified Epidemiologist. Following medical school at the University of the West Indies (Mona) she went on to pursue a Masters in Public Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and a PhD in Chronic Disease Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University, both degrees awarded with honours.

Dr Samuels joined CAIHR in December 2015 as Director of CDRC in Barbados, and is now the Principal Investigator of the IDRC (International Development Research Centre, Canada) funded evaluation of the CARICOM Heads of Government 2007 NCD Summit Declaration. She is a member of the Research group for the Barbados 2012 Health of the Nation Risk Factor survey conducted by the CDRC on behalf of the Ministry of Health in Barbados.