Dr. Trevor Paul Noel, PhD, MPH, FRSPH
Associate Professor and Director of Field Studies in the Office of Research at St. George’s University (SGU)
Biography
Dr. Noel is an accomplished researcher, educator, and leader in global health, with extensive experience in microbiology, parasitology, and public health. He holds a BSc in Zoology and Statistics from University College Cork, Ireland, and earned both an MPH (Policy) and a PhD in Microbiology with a subspecialty in Parasitology from St. George’s University (SGU). Throughout his career, he has served as Principal Investigator and co-investigator on numerous NIH and independent research projects, contributing to over 18 peer-reviewed publications, including works in The Lancet and an upcoming article in Nature Geoscience.
As an educator, Dr. Noel has taught medical parasitology to over 700 students at SGU and Northumbria University, supervising more than 30 MSc, MPH, MScBR, and PhD students. He emphasizes experiential, interdisciplinary learning rooted in real-world challenges, fostering critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and cultural sensitivity—particularly in tackling zoonotic diseases, climate change, and public health disparities.
Dr. Noel has held key leadership roles at SGU, including Director of Field Studies in the Office of Research since 2017, where he coordinates research activities and serves as liaison between the university, government ministries of Grenada, and international grantors. His work has involved facilitating grants and collaborations with prestigious institutions such as NIH, WHO, Rockefeller University, Stanford University, the United Nations, FAO, the European Union, and more, securing over $15 million in research funding.
He has played a pivotal role in national health initiatives, leading three national disease control programs in Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and contributing significantly in a senior leadership role to Grenada’s COVID-19 National testing and vaccination response. His efforts extend to mitigating major public health threats such as obesity, chikungunya, Zika, dengue, neglected tropical diseases, and climate change resilience.
Recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health and an honorary member of the Gamma Kappa chapter of the Delta Omega Society, Dr. Noel is deeply committed to mentorship, research excellence, and impactful public health service. In 2025, in addition to his other roles he was appointed Assistant Provost for Research and Scholarly Activity at SGU, overseeing research reporting across all university schools and continuing to advance global health education and collaborative research worldwide
Contact Information
Areas of Interest
- Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Rheumatic Fever
- Rheumatic Heart Disease
- Genetic Correlates of Addictive Diseases
Affiliations
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health
- American Public Health Association
Selected Publications
- Noel, TP, J Zabriskie, CNL Macpherson, G Perrotte (2004). Beta hemolytic Streptococci in schoolchildren 5 - 15 years of age with an emphasis on rheumatic fever, in the tri island state of Grenada, West Indian Medical Journal, 53: Supplement 2, 60-61.
- Noel, TP, J Zabriskie, CNL Macpherson, G Perrotte (2005). Beta hemolytic Streptococci in schoolchildren 5 - 15 years of age with an emphasis on rheumatic fever, in the tri island state of Grenada, West Indian Medical Journal, 54: 22-27.
- CNL Macpherson, TP Noël, PJ Fields, D Jungkind, K Yearwood, M Simmons, S Widjaja, G Mitchell, D Noel, S Bidaisee, TE Myers, A.D LaBeaud (2016). Clinical and serological observations from a case series study during the Asian lineage chikungunya outbreak in Grenada during 2014. (The American Journal of Tropical Medicine Published online August 15, 2016 , doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.16-0122 Am J Trop Med Hyg 2016 16-0122)
- Kathryn E. Gibson Daniel M. Fitzpatrick Diana Stone Trevor P. Noël Calum N.L. Macpherson (2016). Vector-borne diseases in the Caribbean: History and current status. CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources. Published on 01 Jan 2016.
- Richard A. Scribner, Roger L. Radix, Aubrey E. Gilliland, Claudia Leonardi, Tekeda F. Ferguson, Trevor P. Noël, Rebecca G. Andall, Naomi R. Andall, Christal Radix, Rhoda Frank, Jonell Benjamin, Jenifer James, Romero Benjamin, Randall L. Waechter and Melinda S. Sothern (2018). Absence of Adolescent Obesity in Grenada: Is This a Generational Effect? Front. Public Health,03 August 2018 doi:10.3389/fpubh.2018.00204
- Brenciaglia M, Noël TP, Fields PJ, Bidaisee S, Myers TE, Nelson WM, Venkateswaran N, Venkateswaran K, Parameswaran N, Bahadoor A, Yearwood K, Mapp-Alexander V, Mitchell G, LaBeaud AD, Macpherson CNL (2018). Clinical, Serological, and Molecular Observations from a Case Series Study during the Asian Lineage Zika Virus Outbreak in Grenada during 2016. Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol. Feb 1;2018:4635647. doi: 10.1155/2018/4635647. eCollection 2018.
- Heath, C.J., Lowther J., Noël T.P., Mark-George, I., Boothroyd D.B., Mitchell, G., MD, Macpherson C.N.L., A. Desiree LaBeaud, A.D. (2018) The Identification of Risk Factors for Chronic Chikungunya Arthralgia in Grenada, West Indies: A Cross Sectional Cohort Study. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2018 Jan 3;5(1):ofx234. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofx234. eCollection 2018 Jan.
- Waechter, R., Ingraham, E., Evans, R., Cudjoe, N., Krystosik, A., Isaac, R., Watts, A., Noël, T., Landon, B., Fernandes, M., Mapp-Alexander, V., Suresh, P., Mitchell, G., Macpherson, C., Gérardin, P., & LaBeaud, D. (2020). Pre and Postnatal exposure to Chikungunya virus does not affect child neurodevelopmental outcomes at two years of age. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 14(10), e0008546.
- Blackmon, K., Waechter, R., Landon, B., Noël, T., Macpherson, C., Donald, T., Cudjoe, N., Evans, R., Burgen, K., Jayatilake, P., Oyegunle, V., Pedraza, O., Baki, S., Thesen, T., Dlugos, D., Chari, G., Patel, A. A., Grossi-Soyster, E. N., Krystosik, A. R., LaBeaud, A. D.). Epilepsy surveillance in normocephalic children with and without prenatal Zika virus exposure.
- Wilder-Smith, Annelies, Wei, Yinghui, Velho Barreto de Araújo, Turchi Martelli, Turchi, Marília Dalva,Tami, Adriana,Souza, João, Sousa, Patricia, Soriano-Arandes, Antoni, Reveiz, L, Prata-Barbosa, Arnaldo, Pomar, Léo, Pelá Rosado, Luiza Emylce, Perez, Freddy, Passos, Saulo,Nogueira, Mauricio, Noël, Trevor P., Moura da Silva , Antônio, Moreira , Maria Elisabeth, Miranda Montoya, Maria Consuelo, Miranda-Filho, Maxwell, Lauren, Macpherson, Calum, Low, Nicola, Lan, Zhiyi, LaBeaud, Angelle Desiree, Koopmans, M, Kim, Caron, João, Esaú, Jaenisch, Thomas, Hofer, C. B.,Gustafson, Paul, Gérardin, Patrick, Ganz, Jucelia S,Elias, Vanessa, Debray, Thomas, Cafferata, Maria Luisa, Buekens, Pierre, Broutet, Nathalie, Brickley, Elizabeth B., Brasil, Patrícia, Bethencourt, Sarah, Benedetti, Andrea,Arraes de Alencar Ximenes, Ricardo, Alves da Cunha, Antonio, Alger, Jackeline (2018). Understanding the relation between Zika virus infection during pregnancy and adverse fetal, infant, and child outcomes: a protocol for a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis of longitudinal studies of pregnant women and their infants and children. BMJ Open - Manuscript ID bmjopen-2018-026092
- Alger, J., Arraes de Alencar Ximenes, R., Benedetti, A., Bethencourt, S., Brasil, P., Brickley, E.B., Broutet, N., Buekens, P., Cafferata, M.L., Cunha, A.J., Debray, T.P.A., Ganz, J.S., Gérardin, P., Gustafson, P., Hofer, C., Jaenisch, T., João E., Kim, C., Koopmans, M., LaBeaud, A.D, Lan, Z., Alves Da Cunha, A.L., Low, N., Macpherson, C.N.L., Mayaud, P., Montoya, M.C.M., Miranda-Filho, D., Moreira, M.E., Noël, Trevor P., Nogueira, M., Passos, S., Rosado, L.E.P., Perez, F., Pomar, L., Prata-Barbosa, A., Reveiz, L., Clemente, N.S., Silva, A.A., Soriano-Arandes, A., Sousa, P., Souza, J.P., Tami, A., Turchi, M.D., Martelli, C.M.T., Kerkhove, M.V., Barreto de Araújo, T.V., Wei, Y., Wilder-Smith, A. (2018) The Zika Virus Individual Participant Data Consortium: a global initiative to understand the risk of congenital Zika syndrome. The Lancet Global Health
- M E Foeller, C Nosrat, A Krystosik, T Noël , P Gérardin, N Cudjoe, V Mapp-Alexander, G Mitchell, C Macpherson, R Waechter, A D LaBeaud.(2020) Chikungunya Infection in Pregnancy- Reassuring Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes: A Retrospective Cohort Study. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. BJOG. 2020 Oct 11. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.16562.
- Blackmon, K., Evans, R., Fernandes, M., Landon, B., Noël, T., Macpherson, C., Cudjoe, N., Burgen, K. S., Punch, B., Krystosik, A. R., Grossi-Soyster, E. N., LaBeaud, A. D., & Waechter, R. (2021). Neurodevelopment in normocephalic children with and without prenatal Zika virus exposure. Archives of Childhood Diseases. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2020-321031.
- Waechter R, Burgen KS, Punch B, Evans R, Blackmon K, Noël T, Fernandes M, Landon B (2022). Improving neurodevelopment in Zika-exposed children: A randomized controlled trial PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2022 Mar 8;16(3):e0010263. 10.1371/journal.pntd.0010263.
- Noël, C., Khan, T., Ollivierre, T., Rush, K., Bogollagama, S., Sutton, L., Charles, M., Lyons, AA., Telesford-Charles, C., Noel, N., Cudjoe, N., Macpherson, CNL., Steele, N., Noël, T., Vaccine hesitancy: the Grenadian Experience. West Indian Medical Journal, 43-44. (2022).
- Matthew-Belmar, V., Noël, T., Sharma, B., Yearwood, K., Fields, P., Sylvester, W., Noel, N., Chitan, E., Cudjoe, N., Alexander, V., Oura, C., Macpherson, C., & Alhassan, A. (2025). Molecular Evidence of SARS-CoV-2 Virus in Dogs and Cats from Grenada. Veterinary sciences, 12(5), 455. https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci12050455
- Alger, J., Arraes de Alencar Ximenes, R., Benedetti, A., Bethencourt, S., Brasil, P., Brickley, E.B., Broutet, N., Buekens, P., Cafferata, M.L., Cunha, A.J., Debray, T.P.A., Ganz, J.S., Gérardin, P., Gustafson, P., Hofer, C., Jaenisch, T., João E., Kim, C., Koopmans, M., LaBeaud, A.D, Lan, Z., Alves Da Cunha, A.L., Low, N., Macpherson, C.N.L., Mayaud, P., Montoya, M.C.M., Miranda-Filho, D., Moreira, M.E., Noël, Trevor P., Nogueira, M., Passos, S., Rosado, L.E.P., Perez, F., Pomar, L., Prata-Barbosa, A., Reveiz, L., Clemente, N.S., Silva, A.A., Soriano-Arandes, A., Sousa, P., Souza, J.P., Tami, A., Turchi, M.D., Martelli, C.M.T., Kerkhove, M.V., Barreto de Araújo, T.V., Wei, Y., Wilder-Smith, A. ZIKV IPD Consortium, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization “Adverse fetal and perinatal outcomes associated with Zika virus infection during pregnancy: an individual participant data meta-analysis” Lancet (2025).
- Jonathan Jung, Nicolas N. Duprey, Alan D. Foreman, Juan Pablo D’Olivo, Carolin Pellio, Diego K. Kersting, Gabriel O. Cardoso, Tanja Wald, Baseerat Romshoo, Erin L. Murphy, François Fripiat, Carlos Jimenez, Eberhard Gischler, Paolo Montagna, Carlos Alonso-Hernández, Miguel Gomez–Batista, Christina Treinen-Crespo, José Carriquiry, Maria Rosabelle Ong, Nathalie F. Goodkin, Reia Guppy, Hedy Aardema1, Hans Slagter, Lena Heins, Isabella Hrabe de Angelis, Aaron L. Bieler, Maayan Yehudai, Trevor P. Noël, Kendon James, Yeongjun Ryu, Denis Scholz, Chuanmin Hu, Brian B. Barnes, Andrea Pozzer, Christopher Pöhlker, Jos Lelieveld, Ulrich Pöschl, Daniel M. Sigman, Hubert Vonhof, Gerald H. Haug, Ralf Schiebe, and Alfredo Martínez-García, "Equatorial upwelling of phosphorus drives Atlantic N2 fixation and Sargassum blooms" Nature Geoscience (2025). In press.
Selected Projects
- Sample-to-Answer Rapid, Multiplexed and PCR-Free Detection of Arboviral Fever Diseases in Resource Limited Settings.
- Safeguarding Telescope’s Coastline Using a Living Shoreline Approach.
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