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Senior Lecturer
Undergraduate Programme Leader and 4th Year Module Convenor

Background and Interests

Jonathan Kennedy imageDr Jonathan Kennedy is a general practitioner in Newtown, Wellington, and an academic lecturer in the Department of Primary Health Care (Wellington).

He has a special interest in the primary health care needs of refugee and migrant arrivals to New Zealand. This dates back to field experience with the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières, in South Sudan and Sri Lanka and to previous medical experience in Solomon Islands. He graduated with an MBChB (Otago) in 1997 and subsequently completed postgraduate diplomas in Obstetrics, Paediatrics and Public Health. He has been a fellow of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners since 2007. Jonathan is also the Postgraduate Primary Health Care Lead within the Department of Primary Health Care & General Practice.

Teaching Activities

Jonathan has enjoyed clinical teaching for University of Otago students through his working career, and has been tutoring medical students at the University of Otago Wellington since 2008. He co-convenes the MBChB 4th-year Primary Health Care & General Practice module and teaches across the undergraduate curriculum. He is co-convenor of the biennial distance-taught postgraduate paper: GENA720 Refugee and Migrant Health.

Research Activities

Jonathan has research interests focussed at the interface between primary health care and public health, and on refugee and migrant primary health care. He is involved in a range of research projects based in the Department of Primary Health Care (Wellington), and in collaboration with other departments and institutions.

Publications

Officer, T. N., McDonald, J., Smiler, K., Russell, L., Kennedy, J., McKinlay, E., … Morris, C. (2025). Developing integrated extended pharmacist roles and services for equitable access and outcomes in primary healthcare: A realist evaluation. International Journal of Health Policy & Management, 14, 9127. doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.9127 Journal - Research Article

Randerson, J., Imlach, F., Kennedy, J., & Garrett, S. (2025). Primary care clinicians' perspectives on migraine management in Aotearoa New Zealand: A qualitative study. Journal of Primary Health Care. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1071/HC25078 Journal - Research Article

Petrović-van der Deen, F., Kennedy, J., Stanley, J., Malihi, A., Gibb, S., & Cunningham, R. (2024). Health service utilization by quota, family-sponsored and convention refugees in their first five years in New Zealand. Proceedings of the 13th Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand (HSRAANZ) Conference. 490. Retrieved from https://www.hsraanz.org/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

McDonald, J., Officer, T., Parore, N., Fa'asalele Tanuvasa, A., Smiler, K., Churchward, M., … McKinlay, E., Kennedy, J., … Morris, C. (2024). Extended pharmacist services: The service user viewpoint. Proceedings of the 13th Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand (HSRAANZ) Conference. 227. Retrieved from https://www.hsraanz.org/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Officer, T., McDonald, J., Jeffreys, M., Cumming, J., Russell, L., McKinlay, E., Kennedy, J., Fa'asalele Tanuvasa, A., & Morris, C. (2024). Changes in provision of extended community pharmacy services in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2018 to 2022. BMC Health Services Research, 24, 1571. doi: 10.1186/s12913-024-11948-3 Journal - Research Article

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