A postgraduate research opportunity at the University of Otago.
Details
- Close date
- Friday, 1 June 2018
- Academic background
- Sciences, Health Sciences, Business
- Host campus
- Wellington
- Qualifications
- Postgraduate Diploma, Master’s
- Department
- Public Health (Wellington)
- Supervisor
- Professor Nick Wilson
Overview
CVD is still a major killer in New Zealand, and a large contributor to health inequalities—and yet it is highly preventable. We are planning to study a range of preventive interventions to reduce CVD risk, and so your thesis (master's or PhD) could be on one or more of these:
- Dietary interventions
- Physical activity interventions
- Tobacco control
- Pharmacotherapy (from polypills to low-dose aspirin)
But as New Zealand is very good at calculating absolute CVD risk in primary care settings, we aim to determine how much health gain, and how better value-for-money can be achieved if these preventive interventions are well targeted to those who need them most. We can also compare such targeting with population-wide interventions (like raising tobacco tax).
