Ishtar Govia is a psychologist and a senior lecturer with the Jamaica-based Epidemiology Research Unit of the Caribbean Institute for Health Research, The University of the West Indies. During her time as a Visiting Research Fellow at the UCL’s IAS, she will be exploring equity-informed approaches to integrated management of multimorbidity in LMICs. Dr Govia’s research areas include: the social determinants of health; shared risk and protective factors; context-, lifespan-, and gender-sensitive holistic and integrated approaches for prevention and management of NCDs, especially mental and neurological conditions, dementia and cardiovascular disease. A variety of expertise includes qualitative; mixed methods; equitable co-production; design, development, evaluation of complex interventions. Central to Dr Govia’s work is the cultivation of partnerships and capacity building for health and social care research in the Caribbean, small island developing states, LMICs, and resource-constrained contexts in HICs. During her time as a Visiting Research Fellow at the UCL’s IAS, she will be exploring equity-informed approaches to integrated management of multimorbidity in LMICs.