07 Feb 2023
NZ one of few island nations with potential to produce enough food in a nuclear winter
New Zealand is one of only a few island nations that could continue to produce e...
02 Feb 2023
Locating for recovery: acute mental health units remain in the shadows
Acute mental health care units remain in the shadows, neither fully integrated i...
19 Dec 2022
Sovereign rights to health and wellbeing
A passion for upholding sovereign rights to health and wellbeing for tangata whe...
15 Dec 2022
Housing the homeless is the first step
Providing unconditional access to housing is the first step towards improving th...
14 Dec 2022
Wednesday 14 December 2022, New smokefree policy will improve Aotearoa health: Otago experts
University of Otago experts welcome a new smokefree legislation which they say w...
14 Dec 2022
Youth support for smokefree generation policy
Young people have shown strong support for the Government’s proposal to introduc...
29 Nov 2022
Two more prestigious awards for Otago researchers
Two of the University of Otago’s leading researchers have been honoured for thei...
28 Nov 2022
Otago researchers set to tackle health issues with Career Development Awards
From a global health crisis to Aotearoa’s health inequity – University of Otago...
23 Nov 2022
Two more prestigious awards for Otago researchers
Two of the University of Otago’s leading researchers have been honoured for thei...
28 Oct 2022
Local councils inadequately fluoridating water over past 30 years, researchers find
Local councils have only achieved fluoride targets for drinking water 54 per cen...
06 Oct 2022
Call to end harmful marketing after study reveals children’s exposure
An end to outdoor marketing of gambling, alcohol and junk food is urgently neede...
04 Oct 2022
Greater proportion of public housing in communities supports tenant health, researchers find
Arbitrarily limiting the proportion of public housing in new housing development...
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