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Aldrie Henry-Lee

Aldrie Henry-Lee

Aldrie Henry-Lee is a senior research fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at The UWI, Mona. She is a sociologist by profession and has been involved in teaching and research in the areas of health, deviance, social protection and poverty in the Caribbean. Dr Henry-Lee has examined poverty in Jamaica, St Lucia, Grenada and Belize, focussing on the issues of measurement of poverty and evaluation of social protection programmes. In spite of her fascination with research, her first love is teaching. She has taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels at The UWI, linking her research work with her teaching. She is the recipient of the The UWI/Guardian Life Award for excellence in teaching, Mona Campus, Jamaica, 2010.