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Contact Details

Email
sue.bibby@otago.ac.nz

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Position
Senior Research Fellow
Department
Department of Primary Health Care (Wellington)

Research

Dr Sue Bibby is a postdoctoral researcher and general practitioner. She joined the Department of Primary Healthcare and General Practice in 2021, spending a year as a Senior Lecturer before moving to a Senior Research Fellow role to focus on her research interests, which primarily involve respiratory diseases.

Current projects include collaboration with the SHIVERS-V FluLab programme at University of Auckland on the impact of personal and society-wide measures on transmission and burden of various respiratory diseases in Aotearoa. She is a member of the Applied Research on Communication in Health (ARCH) Group.

Her previous research roles include Senior Research Fellow at the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand (where she also focused on respiratory diseases), and DPhil candidate at the department of Physiology, University of Oxford.

Dr Bibby also works clinically at Newtown Medical Centre. Outside of work she enjoys paddle boarding, sailing, mountain biking, and playing football, preferably with her whanau.

Publications

Dowell, A., Humphrey, G., Stubbe, M., Bibby, S., Cole, M., Dunlop, A., Hilder, J., Karteleva, L., … Zipfel, P. (2026). An overview of the impact of an embedded evaluation of the immunisation education, training and clinical support programme during the New Zealand COVID-19 pandemic. Cureus, 18(1), e101706. doi: 10.7759/cureus.101706 Journal - Research Article

Bibby, S., Marsh, S., Dowell, A., Sexton, A., Hilder, J., Turner, N., Castelino, L., & Stubbe, M. (2025). Respiratory multi-viral rapid-antigen point-of-care-tests in New Zealand primary care: A mixed-methods pilot. BJGP Open. Advance online publication. doi: 10.3399/bjgpo.2025.0108 Journal - Research Article

Stubbe, M., Sexton, A., Bibby, S., Marsh, S., Hilder, J., Aminisani, N., … Dowell, T. (2025). Community views on using public health and social measures to reduce transmission and severity of influenza, Covid-19 and other respiratory infections. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 31(4), 97. doi: 10.1071/PYv31n4abs Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Bibby, S., Marsh, S., Dowell, A., Sexton, A., Hilder, J., Turner, N., … Stubbe, M. (2024). Point-Of-Care Testing for respiratory illnesses improves diagnosis, management, and patient behaviours. Proceedings of the Communicable Diseases & Immunisation Conference: Protecting Communities: Empowering Health through Disease Control and Immunisation. 397. [Abstract] Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Sexton, A., Stubbe, M., & Bibby, S. (2023). Family views on the acceptability and use of public health and social measures to reduce transmission of respiratory disease: A qualitative scoping study. Proceedings of the New Zealand Primary Health Care, General Practice & Rural Health Research Symposium. (pp. 32). Retrieved from https://www.otago.ac.nz/wellington/departments/primaryhealthcaregeneralpractice Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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