Karere
Tuesday 16 August 2022
Te Ohu Rata o Aotearoa - Māori Medical Practitioners Association’s (Te ORA) membership have gathered online to celebrate the significant achievements of tākuta Māori (Maori doctors) and Māori medical students.
Monday 15 August 2022
The Otago University Postgraduate Association of Wellington is working hard to improve parity for students, improve communication and foster a sense of community.
Thursday 11 August 2022
Professor Patricia Priest is the Acting Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Division of Health Sciences - Te Wāhanga Matua Mātau and Professor Neil Gemmell has filled the newly created Acting Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor role.
Tuesday 9 August 2022
Health professional students who attended a five-week interprofessional education programme in Tairāwhiti run by the University of Otago several times each year developed better teamwork skills and more positive attitudes to working collaboratively with others, a study has found.
Monday 8 August 2022
The fourth year Bachelor of Surveying student won both the University of Otago’s Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship, and the Keystone Trust Study Award Scholarship, in 2019.
Friday 5 August 2022
Psychiatrists are concerned young people in Aotearoa New Zealand are missing out on specialist mental health care with potentially life-long repercussions, according to new research from the Universities of Otago and Auckland.
Friday 5 August 2022
A joint project by the Universities of Otago and Waikato to reclassify what is considered rural in a health context will provide more accurate data of differences in health outcomes between rural and urban areas.
Friday 5 August 2022
New research has revealed the “shameful” extent of child poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Friday 5 August 2022
Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu recently appointed three wāhine Māori from the University of Otago to their newly established Iwi-Māori Partnership Board, Te Tauraki.
Thursday 4 August 2022
Three Otago researchers have received Health Delivery Research Activation Grants from the Health Research Council of New Zealand.
Wednesday 3 August 2022
A supportive family and the knowledge that her research would be of value helped Gill Stotter (65) overcome the challenges of returning to academic study later in life while working as a practising physiotherapist and running her own practice in Wellington.
Tuesday 2 August 2022
A Community Awareness Week run by Te Whare Tāwharau will feature key speakers, stalls and training on looking after each other.
Monday 1 August 2022
Cook Islanders have called Dunedin home since the 1960s, but their presence is not well-documented.
Thursday 28 July 2022
Vice-Chancellor Professor David Murdoch says the University of Otago is in robust shape as it negotiates internal change and external pressures.
Wednesday 27 July 2022
Researchers from the University of Otago’s ASPIRE 2025 Research Centre, which carries out research to support the Smokefree 2025 goal, welcome the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Bill that Associate Health Minister Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall introduced to Parliament today.
Tuesday 26 July 2022
Acknowledging and apologising for the past at a hokomaurahiri (repatriation ceremony) of Kōimi T’chakat Moriori (Moriori skeletal remains) was an important part of the healing process, the University of Otago’s representative at the ceremony says.
Tuesday 26 July 2022
Help us celebrate the achievements of Otago’s youngest alumni by nominating graduates from your department or communities for our 20Twenties Young Alumni Awards.
Wednesday 20 July 2022
Having emergency services work together to attend mental health emergencies reduces the likelihood of the person in crisis ending up in hospital, a University of Otago study has found.
Tuesday 19 July 2022
Otago medical alumna Maple Goh has received a prestigious William Georgetti Scholarship and will be travelling to the United States in the fall term to take up her studies at Harvard University.
Tuesday 19 July 2022
As a full-time student and a frontline health worker, Annie Geda has a piece of simple but life-saving advice for other students.
Monday 18 July 2022
Professor Jim Mann talked to Newsroom about BMI and how it can be a useful tool for identifying excess body fatness, if used appropriately.
Friday 15 July 2022
The authors of a ground-breaking University of Otago, Christchurch study are calling for immediate changes to Aotearoa New Zealand’s suicide prevention strategy and the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act, due to figures showing more than 26 per cent of all suicide deaths in this country involve acute alcohol use.
Thursday 14 July 2022
Results from a University of Otago, Christchurch trial suggest fresh hope for the estimated one-in-twelve people worldwide suffering from a fear of flying, needles, heights, spiders and dogs.
Thursday 14 July 2022
Vice-Chancellor Professor David Murdoch and Chancellor Stephen Higgs were formally welcomed at a pōwhiri at Ōtākou Marae and a ceremony on the Dunedin campus.
Tuesday 12 July 2022
The University’s annual creative writing competition for students and staff is open – and this year for the first time also welcomes entries from alumni.
Wednesday 6 July 2022
University of Otago-led research has uncovered the strongest evidence yet that household overcrowding is a major risk factor for acute rheumatic fever and streptococcal infections of the skin.
Tuesday 5 July 2022
When the COVID-19 pandemic closed the door to placements overseas for students in their final year of medical school, it opened another door for Dr Aqeeda Singh, who made the most of the chance to pursue her love of research.
Thursday 30 June 2022
Life improved for young people experiencing homelessness once they were housed through the Government’s Housing First programme, with fewer admissions to hospital and visits to emergency departments, although their incomes remained stubbornly low, research has found.
Thursday 30 June 2022
A group of New Zealand health practitioners is calling on the Government to change its approach to the way it cares for people with osteoarthritis, and to do so urgently.
Thursday 30 June 2022
Improving the health and wellbeing of Māori who re-enter society from prisons, alongside their whānau and communities, is the aim of a University of Otago project which received Health Research Council of New Zealand funding today.
Thursday 30 June 2022
Twenty-two Otago researchers have received a share of nearly $34 million in Health Research Council of New Zealand funding.
Wednesday 29 June 2022
New University of Otago research suggests the brain function of otherwise-healthy individuals exposed to event trauma has the ability to “bounce back” over time once the threat resolves.
Monday 27 June 2022
From being told as a young woman she was not cut out to make it as a doctor to losing her partner, and father to her children, in tragic circumstances Leigh Albert has dealt with more challenges than most.
Wednesday 22 June 2022
Construction of the University of Otago, Christchurch’s new campus building took an important, symbolic step forward last week with an official on-site blessing ceremony.
Wednesday 22 June 2022
A warm atmosphere bubbling with life kept the midwinter chill at bay as the University held its first Matariki Night Market.
Tuesday 21 June 2022
Investing in cycleways and walking paths has boosted the use of active travel in two North Island cities, particularly by Māori and people on low incomes, researchers have found.
Thursday 16 June 2022
New Zealand military veterans experience the same level of anxiety and depression as the general population, but have more problems with pain and mobility, new research shows.
Thursday 16 June 2022
Dr Branko Sijnja has been recognised with the Peter Snow Memorial Award for a lifetime of service to rural health as a GP and educator.
Wednesday 15 June 2022
New Zealand urgently needs to increase the diversity and quality of its housing stock if it is to meet its goal of reducing the country’s carbon emissions by 2030 and meet the needs of our diverse population, researchers at the University of Otago say.
Tuesday 14 June 2022
As the University of Otago Christchurch campus redevelopment prepares to rise from the ground, academics in Dunedin are cleaning the dirt from 150-year-old artefacts dug up from the site.
Friday 10 June 2022
New Zealand stroke survivors have told researchers a range of improvements to stroke care is needed, including better access for non-urban residents to specialist stroke care units, improved support and coordination of care after discharge from hospital, better communication, and a focus on providing culturally safe care to Māori.
Friday 10 June 2022
Professor Frank Frizelle of the Department of Surgery at the University of Otago, Christchurch, has been awarded an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit ONZM for services to health in this week’s Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Friday 10 June 2022
A University of Otago academic has collaborated with a New Zealand chef to create a new family cookbook.
Thursday 9 June 2022
A portrait of the late, internationally recognised leptospirosis researcher and survivor of both World Wars, Dr Leopold Kirschner, has been unveiled at the University of Otago’s Department of Microbiology and Immunology.
Wednesday 8 June 2022
The past two years have caused widespread disruption, anxiety, loss and grief worldwide – but a new University of Otago, Christchurch, study has identified a concerning link between ongoing COVID-19 disruption and worsening mental health for those most at risk.
Wednesday 8 June 2022
University of Otago alumni have been recognised for ground-breaking and inspirational service and commitment to a diverse range of communities, interests and professions in the Queen’s Birthday and Platinum Jubilee Honours 2022.
Wednesday 8 June 2022
Global issues have resulted in soaring food prices, with steep increases in the cost of fruits and vegetables. Choosing healthy food options is becoming increasingly difficult for many New Zealanders.
Thursday 2 June 2022
Spiritual care can be an important part of patients’ recovery but is often overlooked, a University of Otago researcher says.
Wednesday 1 June 2022
A Festschrift was held on the Wellington campus on 29 May 2022 to celebrate the career of Professor Dawn Elder, on the occasion of her retirement from her roles as Deputy Dean and Head of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Otago, Wellington.
Wednesday 1 June 2022
Seventeen early and mid-career researchers (EMCR) have received a boost from the Division of Health Sciences with an Accelerator Grant.
Tuesday 31 May 2022
Carol Khor, a student at Burnside High School, has been awarded the coveted Prime Minister’s Te Puiaki Kaipūtaiao Ānamata Future Scientist Prize for research, supervised by mentors at the University of Otago, Christchurch.
Tuesday 31 May 2022
Two University of Otago academics have received $500,000 for research projects to find new ways to treat gastric cancer.
Tuesday 31 May 2022
More than 2,300 people tuned into a day-long online symposium on Long COVID hosted by the University of Otago, Wellington.
Monday 30 May 2022
Two University of Otago research projects which aim to find new ways of treating gastric cancer have received almost $500,000 from the Health Research Council today.
Monday 30 May 2022
Erana Ikimau (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hine, Te Orewai) is the recipient of one of two scholarships for second year Māori pharmacy tauira.
Wednesday 25 May 2022
Fittingly, this year’s recipient of the Angela Allen Travelling Scholarship for top Bachelor of Radiation Therapy graduate, Emily Younger, is a “keen and avid” traveller.
Wednesday 25 May 2022
Funding will got towards research on endometrial cancer and heart attacks, as well as travel to present research in France.
Monday 23 May 2022
A study by the University of Otago, Christchurch has found that every single Pasifika participant in a new Pegasus Health lifestyle and cooking programme lost body fat – with the majority trialled also improving key health and wellbeing measures such as lower cholesterol and greater social connection.
Saturday 21 May 2022
Rachel Pongi credits her mother with getting her back into study and on to a path she finds challenging and exciting. She often asks her mum, “Please don’t ever stop nagging me.”
Wednesday 18 May 2022
As someone who researches the importance of sleep to diet, Silke Morrison is quick to highlight that she prioritised maintaining a normal sleeping pattern during her PhD.
