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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 479 7745
Email
jennie.connor@otago.ac.nz
Position
Emeritus Professor
Department
Department of Preventive and Social Medicine
Qualifications
BSc MB ChB DipObst MPH PhD FAFPHM FNZCPHM
Research summary
Epidemiology and Public Health

Research

Jennie Connor is a public health physician and epidemiologist. She retired from the Chair in Preventive and Social Medicine in 2020.

For more than 20 years, Professor Connor has taught epidemiology and conducted public health research that has largely focused on injury prevention, sexual and reproductive health, and the health impacts of alcohol. She completed two assessments of the 'Alcohol-attributable burden of disease and injury in New Zealand' with international collaborators, including estimation of alcohol-attributable cancer. She is a medical spokesperson for Alcohol Action New Zealand, an incorporated society advocating for the adoption of evidence-based policy to reduce harm from alcohol.

Recent research collaborations include evaluation of NZ’s alcohol legislation, quantifying alcohol’s harm to others, impacts of driving cessation on older drivers and their families, epidemiology of chlamydia in NZ, and sexual and reproductive health in the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study.

Professor Connor is not available to supervise research students.

Casswell, S., Huckle, T., Romeo, J. S., Moewaka Barnes, H., Connor, J., & Rehm, J. (2024). Quantifying alcohol-attributable disability-adjusted life years to others than the drinker in Aotearoa/New Zealand: A modelling study based on administrative data. Addiction. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/add.16435 Journal - Research Article

Gage, R., Connor, J., Jackson, N., McKerchar, C., & Signal, L. (2024). Generating political priority for alcohol policy reform: A framework to guide advocacy and research. Drug & Alcohol Review, 43, 381-392. doi: 10.1111/dar.13782 Journal - Research Article

Connor, J. (2023, March). Planning for driving cessation. Verbal presentation at the New Zealand Prospective Older Adult Transport and Health Study (PATHS) Project Symposium, Wellington, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Romeo, J. S., Huckle, T., Casswell, S., Connor, J., Rehm, J., & McGinn, V. (2023). Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Aotearoa, New Zealand: Estimates of prevalence and indications of inequity. Drug & Alcohol Review. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/dar.13619 Journal - Research Article

Hodgson, R., Macmillan, A., Moore, A., Thompson, L., Connor, J., & Fitt, H. (2022). Voices of marginalised young people and implications for transport policy. Proceedings of the New Zealand Geographical Society (NZGS) Conference. (pp. 57-58). Retrieved from https://www.nzgsconference2022.co.nz/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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