List of recent presentations and seminars, Department of Public Health

Note many, but not all, of these seminars are available as a web recording. Recorded seminars can be accessed from here

2019

• Caroline Shaw & Amanda D'Souza – Never Say Lecture Again – 13 December
• Helen Lockett – Improving the Effectiveness of Evidence-Based Practices: A case study example to improve the labour force participation of people experiencing mental health and addiction issues – 6 December
• Justin Richards – Physical activity and mental health: Taking a peek underneath the blanket – 15 November
• Diana Sarfati & Alec Ekeroma – Cancer control in the small island states of the Pacific – 8 November
• Geoff Bertram – Electricity Prices, Profits, and Productivity – 4 October
• Vince Galvin – The Construction of the 2018 Census File – 27 September
• Tina Ngata, Tāwhana Chadwick, Emalani Case – Deconstructing the Doctrine of Discovery – 23 September
• Natalia Kanem – Unfinished business: The pursuit of rights and choices for all – 17 September
• Liz Craig – From Child Health Advocacy to Politics: Reflections on Working for Social Change – 13 September
• Les Toop – Direct To Consumer Advertising of prescription medicines: for health or for profit? – 6 September
• Teresa Goza & Eve Rongo – Deconstructing power and privilege across the cancer continuum; an update on the cancer claim Wai 2647 – 30 August
• Sheree Gibb, Andrea Teng, Nevil Pierse – Integrated Data for Public Health Research – 23 August
• Mike Bedford & Susan Bates – He mokopuna, he taonga? The reality of a broken childcare and ECE system – and a potential fix – 9 August
• Deborah Woodley – The future for public health at the Ministry of Health – 19 July
• Joreintje Mackenbach – Social and physical environments – what's in it for public health? – 9 July
• Esther Woodbury & Carey-Ann Morrison – Spaces of Belonging: disability, belonging and wellbeing – 5 July
• Hera Cook & Marie Russell – Gun policy in New Zealand after the Christchurch massacre – 28 June
• James Renwick – Climate change, climate action, and links to public health in New Zealand – 21 June
• Julia Milne – Common Unity Project Aotearoa – 14 June
• Judith Katzenellenbogen – Linked data to quantify rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in Australia: challenges and methods – 11 June
• Heather McLeod – Trajectories of Care at the End of Life in New Zealand – 24 May
• Kate Prickett – American Family Firearm Ownership, Policy, and Fatalities among Young Children – 10 May
• Kirsten Lovelock – The Hard Worker, Class, and the Material and Symbolic Significance of OccupationalHealth Outcomes – 12 April
• Janet Smylie – Decolonizing Indigenous Health Information Systems in Canada – Moving Beyond Patchwork Solutions – 5 April
• Elizabeth Kerekere – Pride, ILGA, the World and Beyond – 15 March
• Diana Sarfati & Ellie Wernham – The story of an “inconvenient” maternity study – 8 March
• Jim Thomas – Harnessing the Power of Networks – 5 March
• Eric Costen – Canada has been there: what NZ can learn from their cannabis legalisation process – 26 February
• Nathalie Röbbel – Health, environment and climate change - a global health approach – 25 February
• Ichiro Kawachi – Disaster resilience in an aging society: Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami – 15 February
• Dr Jennifer Nichols -The Science of Storytelling: Engaging the Public Will for Social Change - 11 February
• Victoria Metcalf – Power & Justice in Citizen Science – 15 February

2018

• Richard Reid - Using urban design to meet public health aims: A masterplan for Three Kings, Auckland - 7 December
• Dalice Sim - Adolescent smoking in New Zealand's Pasifika: differences by ethnicity - 23 November
• Nick Wilson - 100 years ago this month: Public health reflections on the influenza pandemic and World War One - 16 November
• Peter Crampton - A comparison of the NZDep index of socioeconomic deprivation and the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) - 15 November
• Robert Tauxe - Learning from catastrophe: How better foodborne outbreak investigations can make food safer - 2 November
• Amanda Jones - Sugary drinks and the obesity epidemic in Canada: Beverage intake, interventions, and simulated taxes - 26 October
• Ricci Harris, Donna Cormack and Sarah-Jane Paine - Racism as a health determinant - 12 October
• Suzy Morrissey - The Treasury's Living Standards Framework and its application – 5 October
• Jeannine Stairmand, Cheryl Davies and Louise Signal - Cancer care journeys and clinical decision-making: An exemplar of Māori-centred research - 28 September
• Ashley Bloomfield - Successes, challenges and opportunities for public health in New Zealand - 21 September
• Joanne Baxter - Māori Health Workforce Development: transforming the landscape - 31 August
• Jude Ball - Sex, drugs, smokes & booze: What's driving teen trends? - 24 August
• Lucy Telfar-Barnard - The Rental Housing 'Warrant of Fitness': from evidence to policy - 17 August
• Tim Chambers - The extent and nature of children's real-time exposure to alcohol marketing - 10 August
• John D. Potter - Diet, human health, and planetary health - 27 July
• Hera Cook -What challenges does the growth of Female Cosmetic Genital Surgery present for the medical profession? - 20 July
• Siouxsie Wiles - The end of modern medicine? - 6 July
• Janet Hoek - Capsule cigarettes: How could product innovation undermine the 2025 goal? - 29 June
• Philippa Howden-Chapman & Nevil Pierse - How housing affects well-being: examples from a recent stocktake and public health practice and policy - 22 June
• Mike Bedford - Early Childhood Education in New Zealand: A hazard to child and teacher health? - 8 June
• Panel Group - Behind the scenes in qualitative research - 1 June
• Ben Shrader - Crisis? What crisis? An overview of the National-led Government's housing policies 2008 – 2017 - 25 May
• Jason Gurney - A limb lost every thirty seconds: Diabetes and lower-limb amputation - 18 May
• Tony Blakely - How much of Māori: European differences in mortality are due to socioeconomic position and smoking? - 4 May
• Barbara Israel - Community-Based Participatory Research: A partnership approach to promoting health equity in Detroit, Michigan - 20 Apr
• Mark Southcombe - Cohousing - Creating Collective Urban Housing - 18 Apr
• Richard Edwards, Louise Thornley - Endgames for smoking – what is happening internationally, and how does Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 compare?
  Powerpoint slides 13 Apr
• Angela Bowen - Maternal Mental Health: The landscape in Canada and beyond…. - 6 Apr
• Louise Delany - Ensuring a public health lens on proposed legislation: why submissions are needed and how to prepare them - 16 Mar
• Keri Lawson Te-Aho - Māori and Indigenous suicide prevention: Global thinking, local action - 9 Mar
• Tim Moore - A Child's First Thousand Days: An update on the latest research developments - 2 Mar
• Pat Dudgeon - Improving mental health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders: Sharing the Evidence of Effective Interventions - 26 Feb
• David Collingridge - Getting published in a high impact journal: insights from an Editor - 20 Feb
  Powerpoint slides
• Freddie Bray - Development and diversity: assessing the future burden of cancer worldwide 19 Feb
• Geoffrey Rice - Why do we still need to know about the 1918 influenza pandemic? 7 Feb