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Current PhD students
Clare Aspinall
The transfer and evolution of Housing First in New Zealand
Supervisors: Nevil Pierse, Philippa Howden-Chapman, Sarah Bierre
Isaac Bain
The impact of nitrate contamination on colorectal cancer: A case-control study
Supervisors: Simon Hales, Tim Chambers, Brian Cox
Keresi Rokorua Bako
Enhancing diabetes self-management in Fiji: A mixed method study with patients and health care providers
Supervisors: Louise Signal, Dianne Sika-Paotonu
Tom Bergen
Cost-effectiveness of interventions to improve physical activity participation in rangatahi.
Supervisors: Louise Signal, Alice Kim, Anja Mizdrak
Shashi Chandra
Enhancing diabetes self-management in South Asian (Indian) population in New Zealand: A mixed method study with patients and health care providers
Supervisors: Moira Smith, Louise Signal
Zhiting Chen
Summer indoor overheating in Aotearoa New Zealand public housing and its impacts on tenants’ health and well-being
Supervisors: Kim O’Sullivan, Nevil Pierse
Marcus Gurtner
Kids Online
Supervisors: Moira Smith, Louise Signal, Ryan Gage
Ellie Johnson
Housing as a Social Determinant of Health in New Zealand: Effect of the Healthy Homes Initiative
Supervisors: Nevil Pierse, Elinor Chisholm
Jonathan Kennedy
Integrating infectious diseases and long-term conditions to improve public health and primary care outcomes in Aotearoa New Zealand
Supervisors: Amanda Kvalsvig, Michael Baker, James Stanley
Lydia Le Gros
Housing tenure and inequality in Aotearoa New Zealand: A political economy approach.
Supervisors: Kim O’Sullivan, Nevil Pierse
William Leung
Cost effectiveness childhood influenza vaccination
Supervisors: Michael Baker, Michael Keall
Krishtika Mala
Interventions for Group A Streptococcal Skin Infections
Supervisors: Julie Bennett, Michael Baker
Negin Maroufi
Using the influenza disease pyramid to predict the coming flu season in New Zealand using machine learning techniques
Supervisors: Michael Baker, Gill Dobbie, Sue Huang, Lucy Telfar Barnard
Sharla McTavish
The Impact of Sepsis in Aotearoa New Zealand
Supervisors: Michael Baker, Amanda Kvalsvig, Alice Kim
Alice Miller
Understanding transport policymaking processes as a pathway to health
Supervisors: Caroline Shaw, Richard Edwards, Emma Osborne
Jennifer Ombler
Housing and Human Rights
Supervisors: Sarah Bierre, Kate Schick, Philippa Howden-Chapman
Courtney Steel
The Health gains, cost and cost effectiveness of dietary and physical activity interventions targeting children and adolescents
Supervisors: Louise Signal, Cristina Cleghorn, Tony Blakely
Sione Tu’itahi
Tufunga Fonua: Tongan Indigenous approaches to promoting planetary health and human wellbeing
Supervisors: Louise Signal, Melenaite Taumoefolau, Viliami Puloka
Completed PhD students
2024
Frances Graham
A study of Legionellosis epidemiology and alternative environmental risk factors for the disease in New Zealand
Supervisors: Simon Hales, Nevil Pierse, Paul White, Michael Baker
2023
Amanda D'Souza
Are children a priority in public policy? Lessons from case studies of Sweden, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand
Supervisors: Louise Signal, Richard Edwards
Eloise Pollard
He toki aronui haratua kia papa. Interrupting white business as usual: Applying the Health Equity Assessment Tool in health service and programme planning in Aotearoa
Supervisors: Louise Signal, Bridget Robson
Ed Randal
Fairer transport outcomes: Improving health, wellbeing and equity through transport policy
Supervisors: Michael Keall, Caroline Shaw, Alistair Woodward
Helen Viggers
Feeling the chill: New Zealanders and our cold homes
Supervisors: Michael Keall, Philippa Howden-Chapman, Kirstin Wickens, Malcolm Cunningham
2022
Amber Logan
Housing and Health for Whānau Māori
Supervisors: Philippa Howden-Chapman, Hera Cook, Keri Lawson-Te Aho
2021
Sherif Ammar
Human arbovirus diseases in New Zealand: Risk factors and outbreak scenarios
Supervisors: Simon Hales, Mary McIntyre, Michael Baker
Brodie Fraser
“We can’t find a safe or secure environment to be ourselves”: Takatāpui/LGBTIQ+ homelessness in Aotearoa New Zealand
Supervisors: Hera Cook, Nevil Pierse, Elinor Chisholm
Caroline Fyfe
From hearth to health: An investigation into the health impacts of the Warm Up New Zealand home insulation subsidy programme
Supervisors: Lucy Telfar-Barnard, Philippa Howden-Chapman, Jeroen Douwes
Paula King
Oranga Mokopuna. Ethical co-designing for the pluriverse
Supervisors: Donna Cormack, Richard Edwards
Christina McKerchar
Food availability for tamariki: a rights-based approach
Supervisors: Louise Signal, Cameron Lacey, Gillian Abel
Kim Nathan
Every move matters: Residential mobility and health and wellbeing outcomes in New Zealand children
Supervisors: Nevil Pierse, Philippa Howden-Chapman
Matthew Shaw
How the Stepping Stones programme prevented intimate partner violence in two West African communities. A critical realist extended case study
Supervisors: Louise Signal, Geoff Fougere
Andrea Teng
What is the impact of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes? A focus on the Pacific
Supervisors: Nick Wilson, Louise Signal, Murat Genç
2020
Lara Rangiwhetu (Rapson)
Social Housing upgrades effect on tenants' health, education, safety and social cohesion
Supervisors: Philippa Howden-Chapman, Nevil Pierse
Graciela Rivera-Munoz
Can evidence-based practice policy in health promotion answer the call of global health security?
Supervisors: Philippa Howden-Chapman, Vivienne Ivory
Stella Vickers
Exploring the relationships between smoking and quitting behaviors and mental health and perceived stress
Supervisors: Hera Cook, Richard Edwards
2019
Mike Bedford
Infectious disease risk for children and their families associated with early childhood education service environmental conditions
Supervisors: Lucy Telfar-Barnard, Julian Crane, Julie Bennett
John White
Commercial and health influences on food labelling policy in New Zealand and Australia: a case study
Supervisors: George Thomson, Louise Signal
Jude Ball
Describing & explaining trends in key adolescent risk behaviors in high income countries
Supervisors: Richard Edwards, Hera Cook, Dalice Sim
2018
Jane Oliver
Investigating potentially modifiable factors that increase the risk of children developing GAS pharyngitis and acute rheumatic fever
Supervisors: Michael Baker, Nevil Pierse
Losa Moata'ane
Inequalities and health in Pacific communities: Policy implications
Supervisors: Peter Crampton, Philippa Howden-Chapman
Melissa McLeod
Equity In Cost Effectiveness Analysis
Supervisors: Tony Blakely, Ricci Harris
Tim Chambers
Children's everyday exposure to alcohol advertising: An analysis using automated camera technology
Supervisors: Louise Signal, Moira Smith
Amanda Kvalsvig
Pre-hospital parenteral antibiotic treatment for meningococcal disease
Supervisors: Michael Baker, Tony Blakely
2017
Michelle Barr
Classification of food & beverage making: a comparison using available nutrient profiling models
Supervisors: Louise Signal, Moira Smith
Trang Khieu
Estimating the health burden of influenza in New Zealand
Supervisors: Michael Baker, Lucy Telfar-Barnard, Nevil Pierse
Sarah McKenzie
How should we be evaluating the New Zealand Suicide Prevention Strategy?
Supervisors: Sunny Collings, Gabrielle Jenkins
Inga O'Brien
Supported self-management: a novel cancer survivorship care pathway
Supervisors: Diana Sarfati, Louise Signal
Frederieke Van Der Deen
Using simulation modelling to estimate the future smoking prevalence, health, and cost impacts of tobacco endgame strategies
Supervisors: Nick Wilson, Tony Blakely
2016
Eli Chisholm
Movement for change: New Zealand renters and the conditions of their homes
Supervisors: Philippa Howden-Chapman, Geoff Fougere
Ruth Cunningham
Health outcomes for mental health service users - exploring the case of cancer
Supervisors: Sunny Collings, D.Peterson, Diana Sarfati
Rebecca Gray
Smoking as an "informed adult choice" among young New Zealanders
Supervisors: Richard Edwards, Janet Hoek
Caroline Shaw
Quantifying the health effects of climate change mitigation policies in New Zealand
Supervisors: Richard Edwards, Philippa Howden-Chapman, Simon Hales
Virginia Signal
Stomach cancer inequalities and the development of health care process and system interventions
Supervisors: Diana Sarfati, Jason Gurney, Jonathan Koea, Kevin Dew
Moira Smith
Attitudes of children and adults to the food environment in organised sport
Supervisors: Louise Signal, Richard Edwards
2015
Nicholas Preval
Statistical and econometric approaches to evaluating large-scale public health interventions
Supervisors: Michael Keall, A.Grimes
Mary-Ann Thompson
Settlement of Kiribati Families and the Impact of Climate Change
Supervisors: Philippa Howden-Chapman, Geoff Fougere
2014
Kate Amore
Counting for something: Conceptualising and counting homelessness in Aotearoa New Zealand
Supervisors: Philippa Howden-Chapman, Michael Baker
Mary-Ann Carter
Is Junk Food Promoted Through Sport?
Supervisors: Louise Signal, Janet Hoek, Richard Edwards
Carolyn Hooper
Belongingness: How neighbourhood gets under the skin
Supervisors: Vivienne Ivory, Geoff Fougere, Sunny Collings
Aparna Lal
Ecological change, water quality and diarrhoeal illness in New Zealand
Supervisors: Simon Hales, Michael Baker
Ramona Tiatia
Family central heating at home
Supervisors: Philippa Howden-Chapman, S.Dean
Diana Sarfati
Developing new comorbidity indices for cancer populations using administrative data
Supervisors: Peter Crampton, Nevil Pearse
Matthew Soeberg
Ethnic and socioeconomic trends in cancer survival, New Zealand, 1991-2004
Supervisors: Tony Blakely, Diana Sarfati, Geoff Fougere
2013
Keri Lawson-TeAho
Whaia Te Mauriora. In Pursuit of Healing. Theorising connections between soul healing, tribal self-determination and Maori suicide prevention in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Supervisors:
Judy Li
The effectiveness of graphic warnings on cigarette packs in improving knowledge of harms of smoking and encouraging quitting
Supervisors: Richard Edwards, Janet Hoek, James Stanley
Kim O'Sullivan
Power and Control: A multiphase mixed methods investigation of prepayment metering and fuel poverty in New Zealand
Supervisors: Philippa Howden-Chapaman, Geoff Fougere
Frank Pega
The effect of anti-poverty and in-work tax credits for families on self-rated health in parents in New Zealand: A cohort study of 6,900 participants of the Survey of Family, Income and Employment
Supervisors: Kristie Carter, Tony Blakely, Peter Davis
2012
Johanna Reidy
Working Together: Governance at the interface between primary care and public health
Supervisors: Peter Crampton, Pat Neuwelt
Marie Russell
Travel time use on public transport: what passengers do and how it affects their wellbeing
Supervisors: Louise Signal, Jackie Cumming, James Stanley
Jennifer Summers
The Burden and Risk Factors for Death from the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic amongst the New Zealand Military Forces of World War One
Supervisors: Nick Wilson, Michael Baker
Esther Woodbury
Auto-mobile: Disabled Drivers in New Zealand
Supervisors: Sunny Collings, Philippa Howden-Chapman, William Levack
Juliet Rumball-Smith
Inequality in quality? The selection and use of quality indicators to investigate ethnic disparities in the quality of hospital care, Aotearoa New Zealand
Supervisors: Tony Blakely, Diana Sarfati, Phil Hider and Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll
2011
Mavis J Duncanson
Unintentional domestic injury from fire and flame in Aotearoa New Zealand
Supervisors: Alistair Woodward, Clare Salmond, John Langley, Kevin Dew, Michael Bates
Nicole Hermanson
New Zealand social service community organisations as advocates for health: Not just "social justice heroes always on the periphery"
Supervisors: Louise Signal, Peter King
Nevil Pierse
Statistical causality in participant unblinded randomised community trial
Supervisors: Michael Keall, Richard Arnold
Sharon Ponniah
Addressing Smoking Among Young People in New Zealand - A Study of Youth Smoking and Smoking Cessation
Supervisors: Nick Wilson, Richard Edwards
2010
Fiona Imlach Gunasekara
Rich and well, poor and sick? The relationship between income and self-rated health from the New Zealand household panel Survey of Family, Income and Employment (SoFIE)
Supervisors: Tony Blakely, Kristie Carter, Ivy Liu
Lucy Nguma
Health seeking and health related behaviour for type 2 diabetes mellitus among adults in an urban community in Tanzania
Supervisors: Richard Edwards, Peter Crampton
Christina Severinsen
Marginally grounded: Camping ground residence in New Zealand
Supervisors: Philippa Howden-Chapman, Kevin Dew
Lucy Telfar Barnard
Home truths and cool admissions: New Zealand housing attributes and excess winter hospitalisation
Supervisors: Michael Baker, Philippa Howden-Chapman
Mathew Walton
Promoting childhood nutrition through primary schools: A complex analysis of policy options
Supervisors: Louise Signal, George Thomson
2004
George Thomson
A Divided State: Bureaucratic and Corporate Influences on Tobacco Control Policy-making in New Zealand 1984-2001 [Abstract].