Alafia Samuels is currently Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University West Indies Cave Hill and CARICOM Consultant in Chronic Disease Prevention and Control.

She is a UWI medical graduate, with a Masters in Public Health and a PhD in Chronic Diseases Epidemiology, both graduate degrees awarded with honors, from Johns Hopkins University.

Previously, she served as Advisor in Chronic Diseases at PAHO/WHO, the Director of Outcomes at XL Health, a Disease Management company in Baltimore MD, and 20 years with the Ministry of Health Jamaica managing Primary Health Care Services.

She is currently a member of the Barbados National NCD Commission, appointed by the Hon. Minister of Health and is External Examiner for the MPH at the University of Technology Jamaica.

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