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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 479 8459
Email
peter.crampton@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professor, Kōhatu - Centre for Hauora Māori
Department
Kōhatu – Centre for Hauora Māori (Dunedin)
Qualifications
MB ChB PhD(Otago) DipObst(Auck) NZCPHM MRNZCGP
Research summary
Public health medicine
Memberships
CNZM for services to education and health sciences

Research

Peter is Professor of Public Health in Kōhatu, the Centre for Hauora Māori at the University of Otago. He is a specialist in public health medicine. His research is focused on social indicators and social epidemiology, health care policy, and health care organisation and funding.

He has served on numerous advisory panels in a variety of policy areas related to public health, health services, and medical education, and has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses related to public health, health systems, and health services management.

Publications

Lacey, J. K., Salmond, C., Atkinson, J., Viggers, H., & Crampton, P. (2026). The distribution of socioeconomic deprivation within the Māori and European populations in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1991, 2001, and 2023. Kōtuitui, 21(1), e70007. doi: 10.1002/kot2.70007 Journal - Research Article

Loch, C., Brunton, P., Moffat, S., Aarts, J., Carrington, S., Lyons, K., Gray, A., … Williman, J., … Crampton, P. (2026). Sociodemographic characteristics of Aotearoa New Zealand oral health students: Do student cohorts reflect the society they will serve? Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 56, e70003. doi: 10.1002/snz2.70003 Journal - Research Article

Hague, K., Crampton, P., Cunningham, R., Gurney, J., Te Huia, B., McElnay, C., … the Public Health Advisory Committee (PHAC) Secretariat. (2025). We can determine our future health. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 138(1621), 9-12. doi: 10.26635/6965.E1621 Journal - Research Other

Fernando, I., & Crampton, P. (2025). A history of affirmative entry schemes at Otago Medical School. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 138(1615), 11-19. doi: 10.26635/6965.6708 Journal - Research Article

Crampton, P. (2025). Reflections on Otago Medical School in its 150th anniversary year. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 138(1616), 8-10. doi: 10.26635/6965.7026 Journal - Research Other

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