14 Jul 2025
Health-impaired world leaders raise nuclear war fears
Many former leaders of the world’s nine nuclear-armed nations were impaired by health conditions while in office, raisin...
04 Jul 2025
Achieving health equity focus of seminar
The cooling winds of Matariki brought 450 people together online and in person on the Pōneke campus in June to listen to...
03 Jul 2025
Many children suffering ongoing Covid symptoms
More than 20 per cent of children and young people in Aotearoa New Zealand are experiencing significant persistent healt...
19 Jun 2025
Youth offending drops with stable housing – study
Safe, stable housing is key to reducing youth offending, University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka-led research has fou...
10 Jun 2025
No one-size-fits-all for migraine treatments - survey
About half of people with migraine disease turn to non-medication treatments in an attempt to ease their symptoms, new O...
10 Apr 2025
Fulbright fellow focuses on underserved populations
We catch up with medical alumna Dr Sainimere Boladuadua who was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Science and Innovation G...
28 Mar 2025
NZ needs options to remove ill or infirm leaders – researchers
New Zealand needs to develop options for removing leaders when their decision-making abilities are impaired, the authors...
28 Mar 2025
‘Caring, passionate and dedicated’ teachers awarded
Five of Otago’s academic staff have received Excellence in Teaching awards for being ‘caring, passionate and dedicated t...
03 Mar 2025
Minimal health gains from star ratings on food, modelling estimates
Voluntary health star nutrition ratings on packaged foods introduced a decade ago have likely led to minimal health gain...
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...
05 Dec 2024
Young vapers feel judged, stigmatised, and blame themselves for addiction
Adolescents in Aotearoa New Zealand who struggle with vaping addiction feel judged by the adults in their lives, researc...
04 Dec 2024
Award for transformative work in Māori communities
A public health researcher on the Wellington campus, Cheryl Davies (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Wehiwehi, Ngāti Mutunga ki Te W...
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