Dr. Gaskin’s current research interests include body composition and its assessment, childhood obesity- its epidemiology and development, and energy expenditure and its relationship to weight gain. She is the principal investigator of a multipronged study among primary school children in Barbados, The Barbados Children's Health and Nutrition Study. Dr. Gaskin has presented at scientific meetings and has co-authored published papers in peer reviewed journals and authored a book chapter. She currently reviews for peer reviewed scientific journals. She is actively involved in lecturing for the Faculty and mentoring of postgraduate students.
Dr. Gaskin received a BSc in Biology, an Advanced Diploma (Nutrition) and a PhD (Nutrition) from the University of the West Indies.
Her past positions include: Science teacher; The National AIDS Programme Coordinator for Barbados; Research assistant where her focus was blood pressure and body composition in children, Supervisor and postdoctoral fellow at the Jamaica site of the International Collaborative Study of Hypertension in Blacks (ICSHIB).
She has served as Nutrition consultant to the Barbados National Cancer study, Chronic Disease Research Centre, UWI, as Quality Assurance Specialist-HIV/AIDS Service Provision Assessment in the Eastern Caribbean: AID INC 2005, as consultant to the Antigua Cancer Study, and the Caribbean Health Research Council (CHRC). She was an integral part of research skills workshops of the CHRC.
Dr. Gaskin is a member of The Obesity Society (The North American Association for the Study of Obesity). She has been an American International Visitor (1996) and has represented The Barbados Government to UNAIDS, WHO, 1995 & 1996. She is a past deputy chairperson of the Barbados Community College. She has also served on the Steering Committee of the University College of Barbados.
