{"id":419,"date":"2020-01-15T11:31:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T15:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/purpose-objectives\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T10:08:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:08:49","slug":"purpose-objectives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/about-us\/purpose-objectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Purpose &#038; Objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container-fluid page-wrapper\">\n<section class=\"row\">\n<div id=\"dept_content\" class=\"pagecontent\">\n<div id=\"sub_content\" class=\"bodytext\">\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div editable=\"rich\">\n<h1 class=\"page-header\">Purpose &amp; Objectives<\/h1>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Supported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/research\/\">research<\/a> agenda, the Centre will also focus on the following five (5) areas:<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lc-block\" editable=\"rich\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li class=\"userway-s7-active\" data-userway-s7-styled=\"true\"><strong class=\"userway-s7-active\" data-userway-s7-styled=\"true\">Training: <\/strong>through professional development workshops, seminars and certificate courses and degree programmes,<\/li>\n<li class=\"userway-s7-active\" data-userway-s7-styled=\"true\"><strong class=\"userway-s7-active\" data-userway-s7-styled=\"true\">Community Awareness<\/strong>: through community engagement activities including sensitizing school children to possible careers in biosecurity,<\/li>\n<li class=\"userway-s7-active\" data-userway-s7-styled=\"true\"><strong class=\"userway-s7-active\" data-userway-s7-styled=\"true\">Consultant Research<\/strong>: generating data, providing analysis and guidance to key stakeholders,<\/li>\n<li class=\"userway-s7-active\" data-userway-s7-styled=\"true\"><strong class=\"userway-s7-active\" data-userway-s7-styled=\"true\">Policy Advocacy<\/strong>: provide policy advice and analysis; and engage with leaders on national policy, laws, rules and regulations and their enforcement,<\/li>\n<li class=\"userway-s7-active\" data-userway-s7-styled=\"true\"><strong class=\"userway-s7-active\" data-userway-s7-styled=\"true\">Stakeholder Collaboration:<\/strong> bring the varied stakeholders of biosecurity governance together through events that will facilitate cooperation and successful implementation of biosecurity plans.<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Inaugural Lecture Series 2020 (St. Kitts &amp; Nevis)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/About-Us\/Optimized-DSC_5639v2.jpg\" title=\"Optimized-DSC_5639v2.jpg\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose &amp; Objectives Supported by the research agenda, the Centre will also focus on the following five (5) areas: &nbsp; Training: through professional development workshops, seminars and certificate courses and degree programmes, Community Awareness: through community engagement activities including sensitizing school children to possible careers in biosecurity, Consultant Research: generating data, providing analysis and guidance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":389,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/about-with-side-menu.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"Purpose & Objectives - Centre for Biosecurity Studies - The University of the West Indies at Cave Hill","description":"Purpose &amp; Objectives Supported by the research agenda, the Centre will also focus on the following five (5) areas: &nbsp; Training: through professional dev"},"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-419","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/419\/revisions\/830"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}