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Alice Kim imageSenior Research Fellow

Email alice.kim@otago.ac.nz

Alice joined the Biostatistics Group – Ratonga Tauanga Koiora, University of Otago, Wellington (UOW) | Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, Pōneke as a Research Fellow and Biostatistician in 2021.

Alice's research interests focus on the applications of Epidemiology and Statistics in Medicine, Psychology and Public Health. She studied Economics at the University of Auckland and Harvard University, and has an MSc in Statistics from the University of Auckland and a PhD in Health Sciences from the University of Canterbury.

In her current role at the UOW, she provides biostatistical and methodological input to various health research projects. Alice is a member of the WHO Thematic Platform for Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management Research Network and has lead and co-authored research methods chapters on natural experiment design and health disaster and emergency research data.

Prior to her academic role, she mainly worked in the private sector, in roles such as logistics accounts investigator for Fonterra Group and transfer pricing, international tax, consultant for EY NZ Limited.

Outside of work, Alice studies the body-mind connection through the practice of Bihar yoga, and is a member of a group working towards reducing the impact of child poverty.

Publications

Teng, A. M., Puloka, V., Kim, A. H. M., Tukunga, S., Mafi, F., Fukofuka, K., & Wilson, N. (2026). Impact of taxes in Tonga targeting foods high in fat, salt and sugar: Interrupted time series analyses. Public Health Nutrition, 29, e217. doi: 10.1017/s1368980026103553 Journal - Research Article

Hales, S., Chambers, T., Pourzand, F., Kim, A. H. M., & Baker, M. G. (2026). Heavy rainfall, dairy cattle, and Campylobacter in Aotearoa New Zealand 2015 to 2019: Space-time stratified case-crossover study. Environmental Health Perspectives, 134, 799-805. doi: 10.1021/EHP.6c00099 Journal - Research Article

Teng, A., Cleghorn, C., Kim, A., Puloka, V., & Wilson, N. (2026). Rebalancing NZ's unhealthy food environment: Lessons from Tonga and the UK. The Briefing, (21 October). Retrieved from https://www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/rebalancing-nzs-unhealthy-food-environment-lessons-tonga-and-uk Journal - Research Other

Every-Palmer, S., Nelson, R., Kim, A., Handley, S., James, C., Wells, L., Neill, A., & Flanagan, R. (2026). Clozapine and pulmonary embolism: An overlooked risk: A look at the pharmacovigilance data. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 60(2, Suppl. ), (pp. 223-224). doi: 10.1177/00048674261434785 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Kim, A. H. M., Stairmand, J., Pourzand, F., Bergen, T., Kokaua, J., McTavish, S., … Kvalsvig, A., … Atkinson, J., Zhang, J., Stanley, J., … Baker, M. G., & Hales, S. (2026). Denominator choice, age-standardization, and the epidemiology of enteric infection hospitalizations among Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand: Methodological implications for health equity research. Journal of Health Equity, 3(1), 2712533. doi: 10.1080/29944694.2026.2712533 Journal - Research Article

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