Dr Madhuvanti (Maddy) Murphy is a Senior Lecturer in Qualitative Research Methods at the George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre of CAIHR, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies. Her research and publications over the past 15 years have focused on social and behavioural determinants of health; public health policy development, implementation and evaluation in Small Island Developing States, and; implementation and evaluation of interventions to increase food security and nutritious diets and reduce obesity throughout the CARICOM.