MBChB, MSc, MPH, FNZCPHMSenior Research Fellow; Virtual Health Information Network
Contact details
Email andrea.teng@otago.ac.nz
Research interests and activities
Andrea Teng is a public health physician and senior research fellow working as an epidemiologist in the Department of Public Health. Andrea's research focus is on prevention of non-communicable disease especially nutrition-related conditions, equity, public health in the Pacific, policy evaluation, and integrated data research. She is PI on these projects:
- Integrated data to address inequitable health outcomes, Healthier Lives National Science Challenge
- Impact of excise taxes in Tonga on the healthiness of food imports, University of Otago Research Grant
- Helicobacter pylori prevalence in Aotearoa New Zealand, sub project in SYMBIOTIC HRC programme
- Cross Government funding of the Virtual Health Information Network core activities
Research groups
- Integrated Data Research Group
- Health Promotion and Policy Research Unit (HePPRU)
- Cancer and Chronic Conditions (C3) research group