Improving health care for children.
Our teaching and research excellence supports health professionals and policy-makers to improve care for children, youth, their families and whānau.
The Department of Paediatrics and Child Health (Dunedin) at the Otago Medical School has a long and proud tradition for teaching and research. Our department hosts a number of internationally-recognised experts in a wide range of fields, and hosts the New Zealand Child and Youth Epidemiology Service, the New Zealand Paediatric Surveillance Unit, and the National Mortality Review Data Group.
We welcome enquiries from students wishing to pursue postgraduate research.
We also offer postgraduate study in Master's and PhD topics covering a range of disciplines, for students of medical or non-medical academic backgrounds.