Overview
The Dunedin School of Medicine has a thriving research community, with active participation from all seven of our academic departments. Many of our staff are world leaders in their areas of clinical or laboratory research.
An integral part of our culture, research at Dunedin School of Medicine takes a variety of forms: from supervision of short-term projects and postgraduate degrees, to overseeing major international research projects and the prodigious Dunedin Study.
Research partnerships at the Dunedin School of Medicine
Much of our research is undertaken in partnership with other organisations—including the Southern District Health Board, Healthcare Otago Charitable Trust, and the Otago Medical Research Foundation—and is administered by Health Research South.
Health Research South
Health Research South is the research partnership between Dunedin School of Medicine and the Southern District Health Board. Situated next to the Dean's Department on the first floor of Dunedin Hospital, it's the first point-of-call for all researchers at Dunedin School of Medicine.
Health Research South assists researchers with research policies, approval processes, and funding opportunities.
On behalf of the Dunedin School of Medicine, Healthcare Otago Charitable Trust, and the Otago Medical Research Foundation, it also receives donations for medical research from individual and incorporated donors.
Visit the Health Research South website
Research areas at the Dunedin School of Medicine
General Practice and Rural Health
Medicine
- Department of Medicine
- Bone Health and Body Composition Research Group
- Cardiology Research Group
- Edgar National Centre for Diabetes Research
- Endocrinology Research Unit
- Gastroenterology Research Group – Gut Health Network
- Lithium Therapy Study
- Neurology Research Group
- New Zealand Falls Prevention Group
- Older Person's Health
- Oncology Research Group
- Ophthalmology
- Primary Cilia Group
- Radiology
- Renal Research Group – Otago Kidney Research
- Respiratory Research Group
- Rheumatology Research Group
- Sport and Exercise Medicine
Pathology
- Department of Pathology
- Cell Transformation Group
- Clinical Genetics Group
- Chromosome Structure and Development Group
- Developmental Genetics and Pathology Group
- Molecular Genetics Laboratory
- Molecular Pathology Group
Preventive and Social Medicine
- Department of Preventive and Social Medicine
- AIDS Epidemiology Group
- Biostatistical Group
- Cancer Society Social and Behavioural Research Unit
- Centre for Hauora Māori, Dunedin
- Centre for Health Systems
- Centre for International Health
- Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit
- Environmental Health
- Health Promotion
- Hugh Adam Cancer Epidemiology Unit
- Human Development
- Infectious Diseases
- Injury Prevention Research Unit
- National Poisons Centre
- New Zealand Pharmacovigilance Centre
- Ngāi Tahu Māori Health Research Unit
- Occupational Health
Psychological Medicine
- Department of Psychological Medicine
- Behavioural Science Unit
- Clinical Psychiatry Unit
Surgical Sciences
Women's and Children's Health
- Department of Women's and Children's Health
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Breast Screening
- Conservative Management of Urinary Incontinence
- Contraception
- Menopause
- Mirena Use in Adolescents
- Obesity and Weight Management in Pregnancy
- Placental Pathology
- Reproduction and Infertility
- Urogynaecology
- Violence and Abuse
- Workforce Issues
- Paediatrics and Child Health
- Child and Youth Policy Research Support Service (CYPRSS)
- Clinical Genetics Group
- Diabetes
- Kahungunu Infant Safe Sleep (KISS) Study
- Obesity
- Prevention of Overweight in Infancy (POI.nz) Study
- Sleep
- Rotavirus Study (RV3)
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Other research at the University of Otago
We recognise the value of an interdisciplinary approach to medical research. Many of our research groups and units therefore collaborate with other groups throughout the University of Otago.
Faculty of Medicine research page
Division of Health Sciences research page
University of Otago research page
