Contact details
Room 2S2, Arts 1 (Burns) Building
Email claire.macindoe@otago.ac.nz
Academic qualifications
2021: PhD, University of Otago
2015: BA(Hons), University of Otago
Research interests
Claire specialises in the history of medicine and public health, with special focus on how health information has been communicated in New Zealand, the use of changing technologies to facilitate this, and histories of resistance and dissent to public health measures.
Claire currently co-leads the Marsden-funded project Kia Hauora Anō: Medical Aftercare of Māori Second World War Veterans with Professor Angela Wanhalla. She is also working on a book manuscript from her PhD thesis on Dr H B Turbott's 'Radio Doctor' health broadcasts (1943-1984), funded by the Judith Binney Trust and the Friends of the Turnbull Library.
Teaching
- HIST 231 Healers, Helpers, or Horrors? Medicine and Health in New Zealand
- HIST 353 Practicing History
Claire also contributes to the 3rd year medicine curriculum and the Pathways programme.
Publications
Macindoe, C., & Wanhalla, A. (2025). Impact of war on Māori veteran lifespan. BMJ Military Health. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1136/military-2025-003190 Journal - Research Other
Macindoe, C. (2025). [Review of the book Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand]. New Zealand Journal of History, 59(2), 137-138. [Book Review]. Journal - Research Other
Macindoe, C. (2025). [Review of the digital exhibition Our health journeys: New Zealand's e-museum of healthcare history]. New Zealand Journal of History, 59(1), 143-144. [Performance/Film/Composition Review]. Journal - Research Other
Wanhalla, A., Macindoe, C., Christie, S., Paterson, L., & Newman, E. (2025). Tracing lifelines through the archives: The health of wounded Māori Second World War veterans in the immediate postwar years. Health & History, 27(1), 1-24. doi: 10.1353/hah.2025.a971599 Journal - Research Article
Macindoe, C. (2021). Mothers need to know better: Radio, the Department of Health, and improving the nation. BackStory, 10, 7-26. Journal - Research Article