Sir Trevor Hassell

Sir Trevor Hassell is a medical doctor, former Adjunct Professor of Medicine, the University of the West Indies, and Consultant Physician and Cardiologist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Barbados.  He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, England. Sir Trevor was admitted to the Degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) by the University of the West Indies in October 2024.

Sir Trevor has held the positions of President of the Caribbean Cardiac Society, President of the Inter American Heart Foundation, Vice President of the World Heart Federation, and Chairman of the Barbados National Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases Commission. He is Founder, and Past President, of the Healthy Caribbean Coalition, a regional civil society alliance established to contribute to the prevention and control of NCDs.

Sir Trevor has been engaged for many years in all aspects of the response to NCDs in the Caribbean. In the past decade he contributed to the technical working paper for the Heads of Government of CARICOM Summit on NCDs, 2007; was an active contributing member of the Barbados Delegation to the UNHLM on NCDs, 2011, the UNGA NCD Review Meeting, 2014; and the 67th World Health Assembly. Over the past 8 years he has led the civil society effort in the Caribbean in advocacy, capacity building, and enhancement of communications applying initiatives that included hosting multi-stakeholder regional meetings to inform, consider and implement multi-sectoral approaches to NCDs.

In 2015 Sir Trevor was a member of the WHO GCM/NCD Working Group on how to realize governments’ commitments to engage with the private sector for the prevention and control of NCDs.

Sir Trevor has held positions of member of the World Cancer Research Foundation (WCRF) International Policy Advisory Group, a member of The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) Advisory Group on Advancing the NonCommunicable Diseases (NCD) Agenda in the Caribbean and a member of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) led Expert Advisory Group on Public Health Law in the Caribbean.

In 2013, Sir Trevor was appointed to the Order of Barbados as a Knight of St. Andrew in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the medical profession.