Contact Details
- Phone
- +64 4 385 5541
- amanda.kvalsvig@otago.ac.nz
- Position
- Research Associate Professor
- Department
- Department of Public Health (Wellington)
- Qualifications
- MB ChB(Cape Town) MSc(Lond) PhD(Otago) MRCPCH
- Research summary
- Children’s health
Research
Research Associate Professor Amanda Kvalsvig has a dual background in clinical paediatrics and epidemiology, and is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department. Her research activities currently have a strong focus on New Zealand’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic; she is the lead researcher of Co-Search, a COVID-19 research collaborative led by Professor Michael Baker. She is also lead researcher of SYMBIOTIC, a newly-funded HRC programme led by Michael Baker which aims to investigate the two-way relationships between infectious disease and long-term conditions.
Amanda’s other research interests are centred on the social determinants of health and wellbeing: topics include other infectious diseases (particularly meningococcal disease), breastfeeding, child poverty, and early child development. She supervises postgraduate students undertaking research on these topics, and also has a methodological interest in the challenges of analysing existing data to develop high-quality evidence for policy and practice.