Senior Lecturer
Email c.hendry@otago.ac.nz
Chris has worked in a range of roles including a self-employed Nurse and Midwife Consultant for more than 20 years, working on projects for the Ministry of Health, District Health Boards and NGOs.
Chris has also held health national governance roles including:
- Board member on the NZ National Health IT Board 2007 – 2016
- Board member on the National InterRAI Governance Board 2015 – 2017
More recently Chris was Director of the New Zealand Institute of Community Health Care, managing a number of research and development projects focusing particularly on community-based health services and their interface with hospital services.
Teaching
With an interest in the application of complexity science to health system development, that arose out of her Doctoral studies, Chris is now paper convenor for the Nursing Leadership and Management papers offered by the Centre.
Chris also teaches in the Graduate Nursing Programme and a number of other Primary care and Public Health focused papers. She has also been involved in supporting the development of Health Informatics papers.
Research Interests
Chris has research interests in:
- Community health service access, particularly maternity services
- The strategic development of the health workforce, particularly nursing and midwifery
- Health service development and change management
- The strategic potential of Health IT