Prospects and Challenges for Caribbean Societies in and Beyond COVID-19

Camille Huggins is a lecturer in the Social Work unit in the Department of Behavioural Sciences at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus in Trinidad and Tobago since 2015. Dr. Huggins is a social work practitioner and researcher with over twenty years of direct practice experience in New York City as a medical social worker.  Her practice experience included working with the homeless population, victims of sexual assault and child abuse and older adults.   Dr. Huggins’s research interests are the traumatic experiences of minoritized women and death and grief experiences and rituals. Dr. Huggins has co-authored and/or co-edited three books, including Gender and Domestic Violence in the Caribbean (2021) and Domestic Violence in the Anglophone Caribbean (2022). Talia Esnard, PhD in Sociology, is a Senior Lecturer and current Head/Chair of the Department of Behavioural Sciences at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus, Trinidad and Tobago.  Her work  focuses on issues of women, work, and organizations; particularly within entrepreneurial and educational spheres. Her work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Motherhood Initiative; Women, Gender, and Families of Color; Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership; Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning; and NASPA Journal about Women in Higher Education.  She is the published co-edited, co-authored and sole authored books in the area of the tenure process, mentoring, equity, diversity, mothering and entrepreneurship. She also serves on an associate editor for the (i) Gender, Work, and Organization, (ii) Journal of Organizational Sociology, and (iii) Caribbean Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies. She was a recipient of Taiwan Research Fellowship (2012) and Canada-CARICOM Faculty Leadership Program (2015 at Brock University & 2018 at Ryerson University).   Dr. Wendell C. Wallace is a lecturer in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Unit at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. Dr. Wallace is also a Barrister who has been called to the Bar in both England and Wales and Trinidad and Tobago as well as a certified mediator with the Mediation Board of Trinidad and Tobago. Much of his work focuses on policing, gangs, violence (domestic and school), criminal justice reform and the tourism/crime nexus. He has completed several research projects on gangs in Trinidad and Tobago and is currently working on a project on policing in the Caribbean. Dr. Wallace is an active member of the Accreditation Council of Trinidad and Tobago, The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn, London, the Caribbean Studies Association, and the Caribbean Child Research Conference Network. Dr. Christine Descartes is a lecturer in Psychology in the Department of Behavioural Sciences at The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Campus. With specialization in Developmental Psychology, her research focuses on behavioral and psychosocial development in children and adolescents. In particular, she is currently involved in national and regional research that centers on child maltreatment and trauma, as well as the development of aggression and other behavioural problems in children and adolescents. She is keen to much needed interdisciplinary research that will promote children’s rights, and advance policies that can positively impact the psychosocial well-being of children and their families. Her scholarly work has been published in both regional and international peer reviewed journals. She is presently a member of the UWI Press Editorial Committee and an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma. Dr. Descartes served as a member on the Board of Management of Children’s Authority of Trinidad and Tobago from 2017-2020.Dr. Shelene Gomes teaches courses in Social Anthropology and the Sociology of Culture at TheUniversity of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus. With research interests in migration, mobilities, cosmopolitan thought and action, postcolonial religion, and spirituality as well as the politics of race, class and gender, her monograph Cosmopolitanism from the Global South (2021), traces the linkages between African diasporic imaginings and Caribbean cosmopolitan sensibilities based on ethnographic fieldwork in urban Ethiopia. Her current interdisciplinary research centers the political economy of family and kinship with voluntary women return migrants’ doing unwaged care work in Trinidad.

• Chapter 1. Deconstructing the New Normal: Prospects and Challenges for Caribbean Societies in and beyond COVID-19.- Chapter 2. Improving Health in the Caribbean Region: Challenges and Opportunities.- Chapter 3. Phillip’s curve re-evaluation: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago Pre- and Post-COVID-19 Pandemi.- Chapter 4. Rethinking teaching and learning in higher education: Preparing for the 'New Normal'.- Chapter 5. Legislating Public Health: A Perspective on Mandatory Vaccinations in The Caribbean.- Chapter 6. Addressing Dissatisfaction and Building Trust in the Virtual Classroom: An Exploratory Approach.- Chapter 7. Vaccine Uptake in the Caribbean: Structural and Psychosocial Considerations.- Chapter 8. Psychosocial Aspects of Dealing with the Covid-19 Pandemic: Reflections on the Experiences and Implications for Nursing Personnel.- Chapter 9. Implications of COVID-19 on emergency care physicians in Trinidad: Considerations for the Future.- Chapter 10. No Child Left Behind: A Rapid Review Contextualising Mental Health Models for the Pandemic.- Chapter 11. How Much Do You Know: Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices toward COVID-19 among Tertiary Students in Trinidad and Tobago.- Chapter 12. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of families.- Chapter 13. Changes in Crime Victimization During The Covid-19 Pandemic In Guyana And St Lucia: A Social Solidarity Explanation.- Chapter 14. Reconsidering the Immigration and Crime Nexus: Exploring the Relationship Between Venezuelans’ Involvement in Small Arms Trafficking and Trinidad And Tobago’s Security.- Chapter 15. Creating a Safety Plan for Victims of Domestic Violence in the Caribbean.- Chapter 16. Social innovation in constructing Caribbean practice in communities during COVID-19: Lessons learnt.- Chapter 17. Equity in the Cuban policy response against the pandemic.- Chapter 18. A View from a Jamaican Foreign Service Officer During and Post COVID-19.- Chapter 19. Harnessing Prospects to Reduce Post-COVID-19 Challenges.