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June 2015
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CARPHA award for Prof ChadeeDave Chadee, Professor in the Department of Life Sciences at The UWI St. Augustine, will receive an award from the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) for his “Outstanding Contribution in the Area of Public Health including Vector Control.” The award will be presented at a banquet on June 26, 2015, where health research scientists are recognized for their work. Professor Gerard Hutchinson, Head of the Psychiatry Department at The UWI, in his capacity as a member of the CARPHA Research Advisory Committee, will deliver the citation to Professor Chadee. “Professor Dave Chadee has generated a very credible and outstanding international reputation because of his prodigious output of relevant research that has provided important insights across disciplines of entomology /epidemiology, medicine and public health,” said Professor Hutchinson. The awards ceremony is the highlight of the annual CARPHA Health Research Conference which is marking its 60th anniversary this year when researchers gather in Grenada. The theme of this year’s conference is Violence and Injuries Prevention: an Urgent Public Health and Development Issue. More than 170 oral and poster presentations are expected on a wide range of health issues, such as diabetes, obesity, breast-feeding, violence, nutrition, substance abuse, communicable diseases (like Ebola, Dengue, Chikungunya, HIV), mental health, cancers, health services, non-communicable diseases and environmental health, with many sub-sets of these. The delegates comprise researchers, doctors, health programme managers and policymakers including the Chief Medical Officers from the 24 CARPHA member states. The CARPHA Technical Advisory Committee and the regional Chief Medical Officers will meet beforehand. Please visit the conference website for more information: http://conference.carpha.org/ |
