Completed Master of Public Health students

The following students have completed a Master of Public Health based in the Department of Public Health, Wellington.

2024

Erin Hildred - Examining Ethnic Inequities in the Management and Health Outcomes of H. pylori infection in New Zealand

Karin Henshaw - The comparative long-term outcomes for different tenure groups in the Housing New Zealand (HNZ) population

2023

Rachel Dohig - “It’s been a long road”: The Health and Wellbeing Impacts of the COVID-19 Public Health and Social Measures on Public Housing Tenants in Aotearoa New Zealand

2022

Zoe Kumbaroff - The impact of the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown on respiratory disease hospitalisation rates and inequity patterns in Aotearoa New Zealand

Thomas Worters - Profit over public health: Unhealthy commodity marketing in Aotearoa New Zealand

Abigail Dunlop - Optimising Stool Testing Among Pasifika Living in New Zealand

2021

Poonam Soma - The Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health and Sleep for People in New Zealand

Anne Russell - A gaping hole: Oral health care for dependent older people

Andrew Reynolds - The potential for environmental sustainability-driven dietary change to improve health: a systematic review with modelling analyses

2020

Hilary Day - Inequalities in sustainable transport use in Aotearoa New Zealand: Gender, intersectionality, and commuting using sustainable transport modes

Leilani Freeman - Sugar-sweetened Beverage Tax Pass-through Rates: A Systematic Review

Symaina Pandey - Optimising the Structure and Function of Public Health in New Zealand

2019

Rachel Dyer - Cancer Diagnosis and treatment in Pacific Island countries and territories

Sally Thomas - Group A Streptococcus skin infection in New Zealand and its association with Acute Rheumatic Fever: A descriptive epidemiological study

Loma Veatupu - Kids'Cam Tonga: Exploring the me'akai Tongan children eat in Ha'apai using wearable cameras

2018

Sarah Dallas - Reversing the decay of preschool oral health: a mixed methods approach to examining the influences on preschool oral health

Greg Evans - Exploring potential age inequity in cancer treatment received by patients with breast or colon cancer within the greater Auckland region of NZ

Tal Leigh Sharrock - The cost-effectiveness of fixed-dose combinations for preventive cardiovascular pharmacotherapy

Catherine Whitley - Improved access to long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) and the declining abortion rate

Mereana Wilson-Rooy - The Waikoura Framework: a bicultural systems model for management of Lake Rotorua

2017

Bronwen Chesterfield - Non-death in cancer patients and cancer suicide

Andrew Crowley - The effectiveness of targeted intervention to reduce inequalities in the determinants of health: Retrofit insulation, heating and health in New Zealand 2009-2016

Nadia Freeman - Grass Routes: An observational analysis of how children use green spaces

Ryan Gage - Skin cancer prevention in NZ school-children: a Markov cost-utility model using data from Kids'Cam automated cameras

Bernadette Jones - Achieving Equitable Asthma Services for Māori

Sharon Sime - Testing the feasibility of using automated cameras to identify the barriers and facilitators to self-management by people living with T2DM in New Zealand

Jeannine Stairmand - E te takuta, kei a koe to tikanga – A qualitative study of factors influencing treatment decision-making in cancer consultations with Maori patients and whanau

2016

Eamonn Deverall - Group and home based exercise programme to prevent falls among older adults in New Zealand

Marcus Gurtner - To examine and compare methods of researching the extent of exposure of children to smoking in 'private' places

Elinor Millar - 2+ Health Conditions Survey: Insights into Multimorbidity

2015

Georgia Deane -  The Epidemiology of Pertussis and Timeliness of Pertussis Immunisation in New Zealand

Luatupu Ioane-Cleverley - Telemedicine and Point of Care Testing Services in Samoa

Gabrielle Keating - Ethnic equity in the management of child asthma: developing and testing a primary care quality improvement tool

Joanne McMullan - It sits in your heart" A thematoc analysis of midwife lead maternity carers' experiences caring for women living with social disadvantage

Rowan Manhire-Heath - A critical discourse analysis of given explanations for existing health disparities by front office staff in general practice clinics

Ellie Moon - A comparison of Maternity Care Models and Their Relationship to Adverse Fetal and Neonatal Outcomes: A Retrospective Cohort Study Based in New Zealand

Peter Murray - Screening for Rheumatic Disease in New Zealand using Echocardiology

Rowan Pollock - Importance and Implementation of Consumer-Specific Reporting of Adverse Drug reactions in New Zealand

Julia Scott - Developing New Zealand's Pandemic Preparedness

2014

Sarah Paterson - Community action against alcohol harm: A case study of community action against alcohol harm – liquor licensing in Fantame Street, Porirua, 2011-2013

2013

Lucy Cotterill - "You just keep walking into the pen to get your next sheep…” An exploration of sheep shearer's experiences and responses to heat in the sheep shearing industry

Helen Topham - 'More than just a road?' A case study exploring implementation challenges in sustainable city redevelopment

2012

Clare Aspinall - Anyone can live in a boarding house, can't they?  The advantages and disadvantages of boarding houses

Zac Gerring - Health Outcomes and Costs of Referral for Elective Surgery: New Zealand 2003-2006

Andrew Waa - Understanding parental influences on smoking uptake among Māori children: A mixed methods investigation

2011

Gail Duncan - The Economic Benefits of Food Safety Regulation

Margaret Earle - Cultivating health: Community gardening as a public health intervention

Mary Duignan - Sun Protection in New Zealand Teacher-led Early Childhood Centres

2010

Kirsty Craig - Grant schemes as enablers of local action: the example of the Nutrition Fund

Brent Caldwell - Causal inference and the design of clinical trials in the community environment: a pilot study of allergen-reduction for the amelioration of childhood asthma

2009

Fathmath Jeehan Saleem - The Burden and Management of Water Related diseases in Maldives

Sarah Free - Does More Effective Home Heating Reduce School Absence for Children with Asthma?

Carly Woodham - Food desert or food swamp? An in-depth exploration of neighbourhood food environments in Eastern Porirua and Whitby

2008

Vera Keefe-Ormsby - Tihei Mauri Ora: The Human Stories of Whakatu

Kimberley Clare O'Sullivan - Gee my account is in credit!” Qualitative component of the Warm Homes Pilot Study

Keitha Small - The Talk of 'Food Tax

2007

Alison White - Chloropicrin Incident at Kohupatiki

2006

Cynthia Maling - How Public Health Policy influences Research; How public health research influences policy in New Zealand

Sarah Widmer - Household crowding in New Zealand in the 1990s: Was it driven by housing policy?

2005

Caroline Shaw - Socioeconomic Gradients in Child Mortality:  New Zealand 1981-1999

Mondy Jera - Housing, Health and Wellbeing: A Phenomenological Exploration of Life in Subsidised Housing