Please see: http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/people/nigel-unwin/ and also the link for an overview of our global public health research: http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/research/global-public-health/

My research interests concern the prevention and control of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), particularly diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Current active research projects include: investigating the socio-economic distribution and determinants of NCDs in the Caribbean; evaluating and providing guidance on government policy measures to address NCDs, and in particular coordinating an evaluation of the 2007 CARICOM Heads of Government Declaration on NCDs; conducting a feasibility study in Barbados into the reversal of type 2 diabetes through a very low calorie diet; and completing the analysis and write up of a detailed population based survey of NCD risk factors, which included objective measures of physical activity and sodium intake. I continue to contribute to graduate public health training at the University of the West Indies through teaching on the Master in Public Health at Cave Hill, supervising PhD students in Public Health and Epidemiology, and supervising students on the Doctorate in Public Health.

I took up the post of Professor in Public Health and Epidemiology in August 2010. Major activities included the development, delivery and organisation of teaching (mainly on the Master in Public Health, but also to medical undergraduate courses), establishment of a PhD programme in Public Health, helping to lead the development of new research on the prevention and control of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and contributing to the work of National and Regional government and non-governmental organisations in their response to NCDs.

Lecturer then Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology, jointly appointed between the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology & Public Health