Over 30 participants from around the Caribbean region, ranging from Trinidad in the south to the Turks and Caicos in the north, joined with St. George's University faculty and students in learning how to conduct systematic reviews and meta-analyses in order to answer important research questions. The course titled Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Course in the Food Safety and Public Health Sectors, facilitated by Saint Georges University's Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine targeted faculty and public health professionals in the CARICOM region.

This course was funded under the CAN$1.6 million dollar Teasdale-Corti grant. Dr. Martin Forde, faculty at the Department of Public Health and co-principal investigator on this prestigious grant, summed up his observations: "All in all, those who attended this course left with a better appreciation of how to do better searches of Over thirty particpants of the Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Course gather in Grenadathe literature in order to find answers to questions in a systematic and reproducible manner." Dr. Lisa Waddell from the Public Health Agency of Canada started off the 4-day course which ran from February 18th to 21st, by covering the mechanics of how to do a systematic review of literature in order to answer well-defined research questions. Dr. Javier Sanchez from the Animal Health Risk Assessment Unit of CFIA and member of CVER then covered the methodology of how to perform the statistical analyses required for doing a meta-analysis.