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Contact Details

Phone
+64 4 918 6184
Email
frederieke.petrovic-vanderdeen@otago.ac.nz

University Links

Position
Senior Research Fellow
Department
Department of Public Health (Wellington)
Qualifications
BSc, MSc, PhD

Research

Frederieke is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Otago, Wellington and is a member of the Māori Indigenous Health Institute, EleMent, and the Big Data Research Group.She is using the Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI) to do research in the areas of mental health and gastric cancer.

She completed her PhD with BODE3 in 2017 investigating the future smoking prevalence, population health, and cost impacts of novel and substantive tobacco control policies ('tobacco endgame strategies') for Māori and non-Māori in New Zealand. She completed her BSc and MSc in Health Sciences at the Wageningen University in the Netherlands. During the second year of her MSc programme, Frederieke worked with the Health Inequalities Research Programme using SoFIE data to investigate the relation between smoking behaviours and mental health.

Publications

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

Gibb, S., Petrović-van der Deen, F. S., & McLeod, M. (2025). Measuring ethnic disparities in lung cancer: The role of population and data sources. International Journal for Equity in Health, 24, 319. doi: 10.1186/s12939-025-02678-x Journal - Research Article

Malihi, A. Z., Milne, B., Petrović-van der Deen, F. S., Ameratunga, S., Exeter, D. J., McLay, J., … Marlowe, J. (2025). Utilisation of specialist mental health and addiction services in New Zealand: A comparative analysis of refugees with the general population. BMC Health Services Research, 25, 1308. doi: 10.1186/s12913-025-13151-4 Journal - Research Article

King, P. T., Petrović-van der Deen, F. S., Davies, C., Robson, B., Crengle, S., Baker, G., … Paki Paki, N., Pehi, T., Cole, M., Jones, B., Ingham, T., Stairmand, J., Tuari-Toma, B., … Cunningham, R. (2025). Health in justice or health injustice? Indigenous Māori experiences of primary care following release from New Zealand prisons: A national record study. Social Science & Medicine, 384, 118543. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118543 Journal - Research Article

King, P. T., Petrović-van der Deen, F. S., McLeod, M., Harris, R., Davies, C., Cormack, D., Ingham, T., Jones, B., Robson, B., … Tuari-Toma, B., Stairmand, J., Cole, M., Pehi, T., … Cunningham, R. (2025). The undercounting of Indigenous Māori imprisoned by the New Zealand carceral state: A national record study. Health & Justice, 13, 48. doi: 10.1186/s40352-025-00355-3 Journal - Research Article

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