Dr Heather Harewood is a public health trained physician is Lecturer in Public Health and Epidemiology, Head, Public Health Group and Coordinator of the Master of Public Health programme and the UWI-PAHO postgraduate programmes in Health Policy and Health Systems, at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. Her qualifications include the DrPH (UWI, Mona) and the MPH (Birmingham). Heather’s research interests are health systems based. She uses mixed methods and lived experiences enquiry to examine maternal and child health matters, healthcare access and experiences, and the nexus of health and the environment including climate and food system components.