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TD, ED, PhD, MB BCh, BAO, FAFOEM

Associate Professor McBride (Lt Col) is Director of the University of Otago's newly established Research Theme: 'Health of Veterans, Serving Personnel and their Families'.

He commissioned in the Territorial Army as a Troop Commander (RCT) in 1981. Since coming to New Zealand in 1995 he has served as CO of the Otago and Southland Regiment and has deployed as a medical officer to East Timor and Afghanistan.

Research interests

  • Occupational epidemiology
  • Mortality and morbidity from occupational disease
  • Chemical and physical exposures, including persistent organochlorine compounds
  • Noise and Vibration
  • Veterans' health

Publications

McBride, D. (2023, August). Occupational medicine: How does that work? University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Inaugural Professorial Lecture]. Other Research Output

McBride, D. I., Richardson, A., Gardner, D., Wyeth, E., Shepherd, D., Derrett, S., & Cameron, C. (2023). Multiple symptom illness in New Zealand contemporary veterans. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 136(1580), 62-67. Retrieved from https://journal.nzma.org.nz/ Journal - Research Article

Hall, A. L., Batchelor, T., Bogaert, L., Buckland, R., Cowieson, A. B., Drew, M., … McBride, D. I., … Taylor, K. (2023). International perspective on military exposure data sources, applications, and opportunities for collaboration. Frontiers in Public Health, 11, 1154595. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1154595 Journal - Research Other

Mitchell, C., Rolston, M., McBride, D., Emery, T., & Hamerton, H. (2022). When Ngāti Tūmatauenga come home: Stories from a couple of army vets about military to civilian transition in Aotearoa New Zealand. In J. L. Savage & S. Bodkin-Allen (Eds.), Proceedings of the New Zealand Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITP) Research Symposium. (pp. 69). Invercargill, New Zealand: Southern Institute of Technology / Te Pūkenga. [Abstract] Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Emery, T., McBride, D., Hamerton, H. R., Mitchell, C., & Rolston, M. (2022). Te Kai a te rangatira he Kōrero: Storytelling as a pathway to care for military veterans. In J. L. Savage & S. Bodkin-Allen (Eds.), Proceedings of the New Zealand Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITP) Research Symposium. (pp. 68). Invercargill, New Zealand: Southern Institute of Technology / Te Pūkenga. [Abstract] Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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