Professor Terrence Forrester is Chief Scientist for UWI SODECO (Solutions for Developing Countries) and Professor of Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies (UWI).

Professor Forrester is a clinical scientist with a longstanding interest in cardiovascular disease and was founding Director of the Tropical Medicine Research Institute. He has received several awards, including the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research at UWI (2003), the prestigious Anthony N. Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence (2006) and the Boehrigher Ingleheim Award for Hypertension Research in Developing Countries (2006). He was awarded National Honors, the Order of Jamaica, in 2012 for his sterling contribution to medical research in Jamaica.

He has served in an advisory capacity to several health organisations, including the Pan American Health Organization, the World Health Organization, Caribbean Community’s Caribbean Commission of Health and Development, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization. He is a Founding Fellow of the International Science Council, and Chair of the ISC Fellowship Council. Professor Forrester has held directorships in the National Commercial Bank, the National Health Fund and the Nuttall Memorial Hospital and joined the board of The Jamaica National Group Limited in September 2021.