Event

Professorial Inaugural Lecture by Professor Rohan Maharaj

Event Date(s): 01/02/2024

Location: Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC)


Join us on Thursday, February 1 at 6:00 p.m., for the Professorial Inaugural Lecture by Professor Rohan Maharaj on the topic Curing Curiosity: 25 years of Family and Community Health Research. This event will be held at the Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC).
 
Professor Maharaj's presentation will:
- Explore the remarkable evolution of Family Medicine in the English-speaking Caribbean over the past 4 decades. Professor Maharaj will guide you through the transformation of primary care and its impact on communities
 
- Highlight the pivotal role research played in addressing mental health concerns in Primary Care. Discover how the results have influenced the curriculum in Family Medicine, ultimately leading to improved healthcare outcomes
 
- Delve into the critical issue of alcohol's burden on households and populations in Trinidad and Tobago. Explore an innovative approach developed through research and advocacy, aimed at addressing alcohol-related challenges in the English-speaking Caribbean.
 
- Showcase insights into groundbreaking primary care research as we discuss the Yale and National Institutes of Health funded Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network (ECHORN Project). Discover how this initiative is reshaping healthcare and improving lives across the region
 

Interested persons can click here to register to attend.

More about the speaker
Dr. Rohan G. Maharaj is a graduate of the St Augustine (BSc (Hons)), Mona (MB BS) and Cave Hill (DM) campuses and a Family Physician in private practice since 1989. He also completed his Master of Health Sciences (Family Medicine) at the University of Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Caribbean College of Family Physicians. Dr Maharaj has worked at the St. Augustine campus to develop the MSc and DM in Family Medicine and the Master of Public Health. His work initially focused on depression and other mental health and psychosocial issues and in 2009 he published ‘Psychosocial Issues in West Indian Primary Health Care’. He has over 50 peer-reviewed publications. Currently he is the local PI for an on-going cohort trial, the Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network (www.ECHORN.org), which is funded by the NIH. In the last two decades Dr. Maharaj has trained more than 200 graduate students many of whom are current leaders in primary health care in Trinidad. In 2019, he was appointed as the first ever Professor of Family Medicine at The University of the West Indies.
Starting in 2013 he has focused his research on alcohol issues in Trinidad and the Caribbean, completing the National Alcohol Survey of Households in Trinidad and Tobago (NASHTT). Since 2015 he has been the Alcohol Policy Advisor to the Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC). As part of his work with the HCC and alcohol issues, Dr Maharaj has collaborated with Sir Trevor Hassell, President of HCC and Maisha Hutton, Executive Director of the HCC,  in initiating the Caribbean Alcohol Reduction Day, which is in 2022 celebrating its seventh year. This occasion is celebrated in November annually. He has also presented to CARICOM Ministers of Health, on the need to address the Harmful Use of Alcohol in Caribbean populations, and worked with PAHO and its Technical Advisory Group on alcohol.

 

 

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