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Contact Details

Email
mavis.duncanson@otago.ac.nz

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Position
Senior Lecturer/ Clinical Epidemiologist
Department
Department of Paediatrics and Child Health (Dunedin)
Qualifications
MB ChB MPH PhD GCUT
Research summary
Children’s health

Research

Mavis Duncanson is a public health physician with interest and experience in child population health. In her current position as clinical epidemiologist with the New Zealand Child and Youth Epidemiology Service (NZCYES) she contributes to the provision of up to date and accurate information of the health of children and young people to each district health board in New Zealand as well as to the Ministry of Health. In collaboration between NZCYES and other organisations. Mavis also contributes to the annual Child Poverty Monitor. She has worked previously in the Office of the Children’s Commissioner providing evidence-based policy advice on issues of health and well-being, and while living in Sydney contributed to analysis of data for the New South Wales Child Death Review and facilitated consultation on a child injury prevention strategy for New South Wales.

Publications

Adams, J., Tustin, K., Wicken, A., McAnally, H., Duncanson, M., Taylor, B., & Turnbull, F. (2025). Mental health of children and young people in Aotearoa 2023. (pp. 1-109). Dunedin, New Zealand: New Zealand Child and Youth Epidemiology Service, University of Otago. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10523/45251 Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report

Tustin, K., Adams, J., McAnally, H., Duncanson, M., Wicken, A., Taylor, B., & Turnbull, F. (2024). Oral health of children and young people in Aotearoa 2023. (pp. 1-74). Dunedin, New Zealand: New Zealand Child and Youth Epidemiology Service, University of Otago. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10523/43181 Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report

Adams, J., Tustin, K., Duncanson, M., Wicken, A., McAnally, H., Taylor, B., & Turnbull, F. (2024). Rheumatological conditions in children and young people in Aotearoa 2023. (pp. 1-64). Dunedin, New Zealand: New Zealand Child and Youth Epidemiology Service, University of Otago. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10523/43205 Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report

McAnally, H., Adams, J., Tustin, K., Duncanson, M., Wicken, A., Taylor, B., & Turnbull, F. (2024). Intentional injuries of children and young people in Aotearoa 2023. (pp. 1-47). Dunedin, New Zealand: New Zealand Child and Youth Epidemiology Service, University of Otago. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10523/43201 Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report

Duncanson, M., Tustin, K., Wicken, A., McAnally, H., Adams, J., Taylor, B., & Turnbull, F. (2024). Selected determinants of health for children and young people in Aotearoa 2023. (pp. 1-27). Dunedin, New Zealand: New Zealand Child and Youth Epidemiology Service, University of Otago. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10523/43203 Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report

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