Professor Donald Simeon is Director, Caribbean Centre for Health Systems Research and Development and Professor of Biostatistics and Public Health at the Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago.
He is a Chartered Statistician as well as a Fellow and Council Member of the Royal Statistical Society, UK. He is also a Registered Public Health Nutritionist (Trinidad & Tobago and UK). He is a member of the Global Steering Group of the WHO Evidence-informed Policy Network (EVIPNet), Chair of the Caribbean Regional Hub of the Planetary Health Alliance as well as Chair or Member of various Research Ethics Committees. He is a Founding (and current) Executive Member of the Bioethics Society of the English-speaking Caribbean and was recently awarded by the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) for his significant contributions to health research in the Caribbean over the last three decades.
Professor Simeon’s professional interests include biostatistics, nutrition, research and data ethics, health policy and systems research, public health, and planetary health. He has published over 75 scientific papers in peerreviewed international journals with over 4300 citations, in addition to chapters in books/encyclopedia and other professional reports. He has also delivered over 80 presentations at scientific and professional meetings throughout the Americas, Africa and Europe, and was listed among the top 2% most impactful researchers (career-long) in the Stanford University Reports. His h-index is 35 and he has received over 7.8 million USD in academic grants.