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Contact Details

Phone
+64 4 806 1616
Email
andrea.teng@otago.ac.nz
Position
Senior Research Fellow
Department
Department of Public Health (Wellington)
Qualifications
MBChB, PhD, MPH, MSc, FNZCPHM
Research summary
Epidemiology and public health

Research

Andrea Teng is a Public Health Physician and epidemiologist in the Department of Public Health, Wellington. Andrea's research focus is on the prevention of non-communicable disease and addressing inequity. This includes H. pylori screen-and-treat research for preventing stomach cancer, and evaluation of fiscal policies for rebalancing the food environment. She has led several studies using linked administrative data, including from the Statistics New Zealand Integrated Data Infrastructure.

Andrea is principal investigator on these projects:

  • Taxes for a healthier diet? Impact of Tonga food excise taxes and tax subsidies introduced for non-communicable disease prevention, Marsden Project (2024 to 2027)
  • H. pylori screen-and-treat to prevent stomach cancer: getting the treatment right, Cancer Society Project (2025 to 2027)
  • Helicobacter pylori prevalence in Aotearoa New Zealand, sub project in SYMBIOTIC HRC programme

And these completed projects:

  • Integrated data to address inequitable health outcomes, Healthier Lives National Science Challenge (2020 to 2024)
  • Should ethnicity, deprivation and morbidity be used to target primary health care funding? University of Otago Research Grant (2024)
  • Impact of excise taxes in Tonga on the healthiness of food imports, University of Otago Research Grant (2023)

Publications

Teng, A., Stanley, J., & McLeod, M. (2026). Journey towards piloting Helicobacter pylori screen-and-treat to address health inequities in Aotearoa New Zealand. Helicobacter, 31(2), e70123. doi: 10.1111/hel.70123 Journal - Research Article

Satherley, N., de Graaf, B., Davie, G., Petrović-van der Deen, F. S., Gibb, S., Teng, A., & Sporle, A. (2026). Gastric cancer survival (in)equity from 2002 to 2021: Examining demographic and clinical characteristics among Māori and non-Māori. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 139(1632), 44-70. doi: 10.26635/6965.7181 Journal - Research Article

Teng, A., McLeod, M., & Crengle, S. (2026). Is ethnicity an independent predictor of health need? Linked cohort logistic regression analysis to predict amenable mortality. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 139(1628), 22-33. doi: 10.26635/6965.7002 Journal - Research Article

Park, J. Y., Lee, Y. C., Moayyedi, P., Lansdorp-Vogelaar, I., Camargo, M. C., Tepeš, B., … McLeod, M., … Teng, A., & Forman, D. (2026). Helicobacter pylori Screen-and-Treat programs for gastric cancer prevention: IARC Working Group Report. New England Journal of Medicine, 394(11), 1131-1137. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsb2515372 Journal - Research Other

Teng, A., Kim, A. H. M., Puloka, V., Tukunga, S., Mafi, F., Fukofuka, K., & Wilson, N. (2026). Do tax waivers reduce prices and increase imports of healthy foods? Interrupted time-series analyses from Tonga. BMJ Public Health, 4(1), e003508. doi: 10.1136/bmjph-2025-003508 Journal - Research Article

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