NCDs and Climate Change

The Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC) in partnership with the ROTARY District 7030 and the Caribbean Association of Nutritionists and Dieticians (CANDi) presented a joint special…

COVID-19 and Food Security – The time is now for a paradigm shift in the way we produce and consume healthy food in the Caribbean.…

Project: Neighbourhood-level Built Environment/Walkability and Non-Communicable Diseases in Barbados Supervisor: Professor Ian Hambleton; Dr. Christina Howitt Program: PhD Epidemiology (UWI Faculty of Medical Sciences and…

HCC OPEN LETTER TO CARICOM HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT CALLING FOR URGENT ACTION TO PROTECT THOSE LIVING WITH NCDs FROM COVID-19 March 27, 2020…

In August 2019, the HCC was invited to represent the Caribbean as one of the priority countries/regions of the Lancet Countdown over the period 2019-2023…

Arising out of a multisectoral regional meeting “Accelerating Nutrition Policies in the Caribbean: Creating Supportive Environments for Healthy Children”,1 17-18 September 20191 in Bridgetown, Barbados,…

Power, Progress, Change Women iver 2019, Miss. Ashley Foster-Estwick Women iver Young Leader and HCC Youth Advocate describes her experiences. Vancouver, Canada set the stage…

The 3rd UN High-level Meeting on NCDs was held on Thursday, 27th September 2018, during the high-level week of the UN General Assembly under the…

Of the four risk factors for NCDs, physical activity (PA) receives the least attention and programmes aimed at reducing inactivity are woefully insufficient or altogether…

In the first of a series of occasional papers on NCD prevention and control the HCC examines Climate Change, NCDs & SIDS. Climate Change, NCDs…