Richard Hector is interested in global health and vulnerable populations. He completed his PhD in health services research with an outcomes cognate at UC Los Angeles. With a Fulbright scholarship to Trinidad and Tobago, he was the first person to demonstrate the cross-cultural validity of the Quality of Well-being Scale. He a quantitative methodologist with a interest in cost-/comparative-effectiveness analysis of environments, treatments and behaviors that affect well-being. He works for CVS Health and is a part-time lecturer at the University of Trinidad and Tobago.