MAP Jamaica is building the region's first dedicated Parkinson's movement, wellness, and research community — in partnership with Jamaica, for the people the data has missed.
Across the Caribbean, Parkinson's disease rarely appears in the systems that track a nation's health. It's a structural classification gap — not anyone's failing — but the effect is the same: prevalence goes unmeasured, care needs go unseen, and research priorities are set without the region's people in the picture.
MAP Jamaica exists to make those lives visible — beginning with a Proof of Concept that gathers the first community data, and growing into lasting programs and a research base built with Jamaica, never about it.
When you're not in the data, you're not in the plan. We're putting Caribbean Parkinson's on the map.
Community exercise adapting established Parkinson's frameworks — LSVT BIG, PWR! Moves, and non-contact boxing — delivered under clinical oversight.
A farm program — aquaponics and locally grown, neuroprotective food — bringing wellness within reach of the community. Nourishment, not a treatment claim.
The founding data initiative — gathering the first community evidence and building toward an IRB-approved research base, with Caribbean institutions at the table.
Our founding initiative: community and clinician surveys gathering the first picture of Parkinson's in the region.
Building referral pathways, practitioner awareness, and movement programs with partners around the Caribbean.
A dedicated movement, wellness, and research home — the lasting base for the community we're building today.