PhD candidates
Haider Al-Darraji
Comprehensive active tuberculosis case finding amongst HIV infected inmates upon entry into a Malaysian prison.
Supervisors: Professor Philip Hill, Associate Professor Katrina Sharples (Medicine)
Email aldha180@student.otago.ac.nz
Lika Apriani
Latent tuberculosis infection among Indonesian health care workers.
Supervisors: Professor Philip Hill, Dr Sue McAllister, Associate Professor Katrina Sharples (Medicine)
Email aprli894@student.otago.ac.nz
Sarah Donald
Prescription medicine use in pregnancy.
Supervisors: Dr Lianne Parkin, Dr Simon Horsburgh, Associate Professor Katrina Sharples (Medicine).
Email sarah.donald@otago.ac.nz
Rosee Hodgson
Shaping cities for youth: Transport and urban planning to improve young people's access to education, employment, and training.
Supervisors: Professor Jennie Connor, Dr Alex Macmillan, Associate Professor Tony Moore (Surveying), Christina McKerchar (Advisor, Population Health UOC)
Email nevro854@student.otago.ac.nz
Ms Win Thandar Oo
Role of Leptospira infection in severe febrile illness
Supervisors: Professor John Crump, Wah Win Htike, Dr James Ussher and Professor David Murdoch
Email win.thandar.oo.oo@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Michael Maze
The impact and social ecology of leptospirosis in northern Tanzania.
Supervisors: Professor John Crump, Associate Professor Katrina Sharples (Medicine).
Email mazmi604@student.otago.ac.nz
Tin Ohn Myat
Bacterial infections in Yangon, Myanmar.
Supervisors: Professor John Crump, Dr David Murdoch, Wah Win Htike
Email myati260@student.otago.ac.nz
Tony Zhang
Phenotypes of lung function and its growth and decline: A longitudinal analysis
Supervisors: Professor Bob Hancox, Andrew Gray
Email xhato394@student.otago.ac.nz
Faumuina Tai Sopoaga
Pacific students’ health, wellbeing and success in higher education.
Supervisors: Dr Jacques van der Meer (College of Education), Dr Richard Egan, Professor Tim Wilkinson (Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch)
Email tai.sopoaga@otago.ac.nz
Masters' students
Kay Berryman
Motivational interviewing as an oral health intervention for early childhood caries utilising a Kaupapa Maori methodology.
Supervisors: Professor John Broughton, Dr Richard Egan
Shawnee Brausch
Research project: To explore the stories of young Māori wāhine (women) and their relationships with alcohol.
Supervisors: Dr Emma Wyeth and Dr Richard Egan
Email shawnee.brausch@otago.ac.nz
Meredith Burgess
Abortions over the lifecourse – Incidence, reasons, and regrets.
Supervisors: Associate Professor Nigel Dickson, Professor Jennie Connor
Email burme809@student.otago.ac.nz
Judy Clarke
A study of health capability in a group of female health care assistants working in the aged-care residential sector.
Supervisors: Dr Trudy Sullivan, Dr Richard Egan
Email claju350@student.otago.ac.nz
Acelini Hakopa
Identifying barriers to mental health services utilisation among Pacific peoples.
Supervisors: Dr Rose Richards Hessell, Jesse Kokaua (PIRSSU)
Email senac255@student.otago.ac.nz
Sarah Harrison
Framing the health implications and opportunities of climate change in New Zealand’s online media.
Supervisor: Dr Alex Macmillan, Dr Chris Rudd (Politics)
Email: harsa817@student.otago.ac.nz
Hai Sue Kang
Socioeconomic risk factors for childhood pneumonia in Basse, rural The Gambia.
Supervisors: Professor Philip Hill, Associate Professor John Dockerty, Grant Mackenzies
Email kanha550@student.otago.ac.nz
Sarah Michell
A participatory system dynamics ecohealth approach to antimicrobial resistance in New Zealand
Supervisors: Professor Philip Hill, Associate Professor John Dockerty, Grant Mackenzies
Email sarah.michell@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Elizabeth Peterson
Health-related quality of life and disability outcomes for older people with chronic kidney disease.
Supervisors: Professor Sarah Derrett, Dr Emma Wyeth, Dr Ariyapala Samaranayaka, and Professor Rob Walker (Medicine)
Email petel497@student.otago.ac.nz
Sarah Wood
New Zealand health promotion planning and evaluation: A qualitative study.
Supervisors: Dr Richard Egan, Dr Rose Richards Hessell
Email sarah.wood@otago.ac.nz
Beau Xu
Investigating the cascade of care analysis for drug resistant tuberculosis using systematic reviews and original cohort data collection in Bandung, Indonesia
Supervisors: Professor Philip Hill, A.P. Katrina Sharples
Email xuxi3973@student.otago.ac.nz
Bachelor of Medical Science with Honours students
Mary Cane Demecillo
Otago medical students' perspectives on spirituality and its role in healthcare.
Supervisors: Dr Richard Egan and Hamish Wilson
