The UWI Cave Hill Campus Annual Report to Council 2021/2022

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producing rapid weight-loss can reverse diabetes, allowing those people to come off medication. This is a most impor- tant demonstration project for Barbados with its high obesity, diabetes and hypertension prevalence. In July 2020, in collaboration with the University of Exeter, Dr Murphy organised a roundtable of Caribbean and inter- national researchers and led the subsequent discussions on food and nutrition security in the CARICOM. Dr Murphy received international recognition for her work in 2018 with the award for the ‘Best Rapid Fire Presentation in Global Health’ at the Society of Social Medicine and Population Health Annual Meeting in Glasgow. She presented her qualitative research findings on the burden of care experienced and perceived by persons living with the comorbidities, particularly HIV and diabetes in Trinidad and Barbados. She has also received recognition for her work during her time as a lecturer in Public Health in the FMS. She was a member of the FMS Public Health team led by Professor Alafia Samuels, which won The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Campus Award for “Most Internationally Successful Research” in 2014 and The UWI, Cave Hill, Campus Award for “Recognition of Researchers/Research Teams Who Have Won Significant Funding” in 2018. Dr Murphy has 31 publications of which 26 have been published since joining the UWI in 2011. She has 18 publi- cations since 2016 including 15 peer-reviewed journal articles, two commentaries and one book chapter. Her most recent publications on COVID-19 are some of the very first academic publications on COVID-19 produced by Caribbean researchers. Along with a team from the GA-CDRC and the FMS, four reports have been prepared for the Government of Barbados providing evidence and recommendations to guide decision making around COVID-19 regulations, particularly related to lockdown and reopening, and entry protocols for travellers based on COVID surveillance and modelling data. She has supervised research projects for MPH, PhD and DrPH students. As Deputy Dean Research and Graduate Studies with the FMS, she has increased student-faculty meetings and successfully lobbied for Campus Research Award funding for students in all postgraduate taught programmes which include the DM and MPH programmes.

Dr Nkemcho Ojeh

Dr Nkemcho Ojeh

Recognition in the Research category Dr Nkemcho Ojeh [ BSc Genetics (Wales), Masters Research in Biological Sciences (Manchester), PhD Cell, Molecular Biology and Tissue Engineering (London) ] is a Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Genetics with the Faculty of Medical Sciences, Voluntary Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Honorary Lecturer with the Centre for Cell Biology and Cutaneous Research of the Blizard Institute of Queen Mary University, London. Dr Ojeh moved to Barbados in 2008 to take up a post with the then brand new Faculty of Medical Sciences. Her current affiliations alone confirm that she has forged pres- tigious international collaborations and that her research has international recognition. Dr Ojeh has 32 papers published in refereed journals. Thirteen of these papers, along with two book chapters have been published from 2017 onwards. Her research focuses on wound healing and stem cells in relation to skin and skin disorders, and explores potential therapies for these disorders. She investigates the molecular pathogen- esis of chronic wounds and the role of novel prognostic and diagnostic biomarkers in diabetic wound healing and possible therapies for diabetic foot ulcers. She explores the role of stem cells, hair follicles and dermal substrates in

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