MRC Epidemiology Unit - Publications Database

A systematic scoping review evaluating sugar-sweetened beverage taxation from a systems perspective.

Alvarado M, Adams J, Penney T, Murphy MM, Abdool Karim S, Egan N, Rogers NT, Carters-White L, White M

Nature food. Oct 2023

(DOI : 10.1038/s43016-023-00856-0)

Understanding the links between human health, ecosystem health, and food systems in Small Island Developing States using stakeholder-informed causal loop diagrams.

Guariguata L, Hickey GM, Murphy MM, Guell C, Iese V, Morrissey K, Duvivier P, Herberg S, Kiran S, Unwin N

PLOS global public health. Sep 2023

(DOI : 10.1371/journal.pgph.0001988)

The Impact of Nutrition-Based Interventions on Nutritional Status and Metabolic Health in Small Island Developing States: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis.

Augustus E, Haynes E, Guell C, Morrissey K, Murphy MM, Halliday C, Jia L, Iese V, Anderson SG, Unwin N

Nutrients. Sep 2022

(DOI : 10.3390/nu14173529)

Evidence of a health risk 'signalling effect' following the introduction of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax.

Alvarado M, Penney TL, Unwin N, Murphy MM, Adams J

Food policy. Oct 2020

(DOI : 10.1016/j.foodpol.2021.102104)

Using Group Model Building to Describe the System Driving Unhealthy Eating and Identify Intervention Points: A Participatory, Stakeholder Engagement Approach in the Caribbean.

Guariguata L, Rouwette EA, Murphy MM, Saint Ville A, Dunn LL, Hickey GM, Jones W, Samuels TA, Unwin N

Nutrients. Dec 2019

(DOI : 10.3390/nu12020384)

Inducing remission of Type 2 diabetes in the Caribbean: findings from a mixed methods feasibility study of a low-calorie liquid diet-based intervention in Barbados.

Bynoe K, Unwin N, Taylor C, Murphy MM, Bartholomew L, Greenidge A, Abed M, Jeyaseelan S, Cobelli C, Dalla Man C, Taylor R

Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association. Jul 2019

(DOI : 10.1111/dme.14096)

Assessing the impact of the Barbados sugar-sweetened beverage tax on beverage sales: an observational study.

Alvarado M, Unwin N, Sharp SJ, Hambleton I, Murphy MM, Samuels TA, Suhrcke M, Adams J

The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity. Oct 2018

(DOI : 10.1186/s12966-019-0776-7)

Evaluating policy responses to noncommunicable diseases in seven Caribbean countries: challenges to addressing unhealthy diets and physical inactivity.

Murphy MM, Unwin N, Samuels TA, Hassel TA, Bishop L, Guell C

Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health. Apr 2018

(DOI : 10.26633/RPSP.2018.174)

Social determinants of prostate cancer in the Caribbean: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Brown CR, Hambleton I, Hercules SM, Unwin N, Murphy MM, Nigel Harris E, Wilks R, MacLeish M, Sullivan L, Sobers-Grannum N, U.S. Caribbean Alliance for Health Disparities Research Group (USCAHDR)

BMC Public Health. Apr 2018

(DOI : 10.1186/s12889-018-5696-y)

Barriers and facilitators to physical activity amongst overweight and obese women in an Afro-Caribbean population: A qualitative study.

Alvarado M, Murphy MM, Guell C

The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity. Jan 2015

(DOI : 10.1186/s12966-015-0258-5)

Female gender is a social determinant of diabetes in the Caribbean: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Sobers-Grannum N, Murphy MM, Nielsen A, Guell C, Samuels TA, Bishop L, Unwin N

PLoS ONE. Nov 2014

(DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0126799)