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24 Jan 2025

Overwhelming support for smokefree policies among smokers, ex smokers


New Zealanders who smoke and those who have recently quit smoking have expressed high levels of support for the creation...

ASPIRE staff Professor Richard Edwards (front, left), Lani Teddy (back row, third from right) and Associate Professor Andrew Waa (front, centre) and partner Wendy Barry on his left with Indigenous and Pacific tobacco control advocates and researchers from Aotearoa, including: Te Rōpū Tupeka Kore chair Whaea Sue Taylor (centre, right), former Te Reo Marama Director Shane Bradbrook (second from right, front row), leading tobacco-resistance Australian academic Raglan Maddox (front, right),

11 Nov 2024

Plaudits for tobacco control researchers


Researchers from the Wellington campus’s ASPIRE Aotearoa centre have been recognised for their contributions to tobacco...

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07 Nov 2024

Major Marsden Fund grants awarded to UOC researchers


Four University of Otago Christchurch, Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka Ōtautahi researchers involved in cancer, pneumonia and cardi...

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24 Oct 2024

Otago PhD Student Wins Early Career Researcher Award


Otago neuroscience doctoral candidate Shivankar Nair’s research into improving recovery from stroke has been internation...

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10 Nov 2023

Treatment of heart attacks at rural and urban hospitals


Patients who go to urban hospitals after having a heart attack receive more timely care than those at rural and urban no...

08 Jun 2023

Smoking and weight can impact daily vitamin C requirements


People who smoke need to consume twice as much vitamin C per day as non-smokers, new research shows.

02 May 2023

University of Otago scientist wins Prime Minister’s Science Communication Prize


Associate Professor Dianne Sika-Paotonu from the University of Otago has won the 2022 Prime Minister’s Science Communica...

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19 Dec 2022

Turning up the heat


Dr Kate Thomas is researching cardiovascular and cerebrovascular responses to exercise and environmental stressors such...

14 Dec 2022

Wednesday 14 December 2022, New smokefree policy will improve Aotearoa health: Otago experts


University of Otago experts welcome a new smokefree legislation which they say will bring profound health benefits to Ao...

14 Dec 2022

Youth support for smokefree generation policy


Young people have shown strong support for the Government’s proposal to introduce a smokefree generation, a study by res...

14 Oct 2022

Dr Charlotte King discusses research significance ahead of Anatomy Day


The University of Otago’s Dr Charlotte King shares why research in the field of Anatomy is important ahead of World Anat...

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11 Oct 2022

Heart project wins Translational Research Grant competition


A University of Otago, Christchurch, team led by Professor Chris Pemberton and Ms Sarah Raudsepp has won this year’s $50...

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