Our people in the Burden of Disease Epidemiology, Equity & Cost-Effectiveness Programme (BODE³)

Staff

University of Otago, Wellington

From Left to right: Cristina Cleghorn, Anja Mizdrak, Kendra Telfer, Lani Teddy, Nick Wilson, Courtney Steele, Anna Davies, Amanda Jones, Muhammad Irfan (Photo in May 2019)
Insert: Tony Blakely, Nhung Nghiem (former member), June Atkinson

• Professor Nick Wilson; Programme Director
• Professor Tony Blakely;  Co Director (working on contract from Melbourne University)
• Dr Cristina Cleghorn; Senior Research Fellow, BODE³ Executive Team
• June Atkinson; Data Analyst
• Anna Davies; Research Fellow
• Dr Anja Mizdrak; Senior Research Fellow
• Dr Jennifer Summers; Senior Research Fellow
• Lani Teddy; Research Manager
• Dr Andrea Teng; Senior Research Fellow

Other organisations

• Professor Cliona Ni Mhurchu (BODE³ Executive Team)

Current Students

• Leilani Freeman (MPH student)
• Rex Liao (BMedSci student)
• Courtney Steele (PhD candidate)
• Dr Andrea Teng (PhD candidate)

Former students and post-docs

• Dr Frederieke Sanne Petrović-van der Deen (PhD with BODE³)
• Dr Melissa McLeod (PhD with BODE³)
• Dr Frank Pega (post-doc scholarship with BODE³ included modelling on falls prevention)
• Tal Sharrock (health economics related MPH with BODE³)
• Dr Eamonn Deverall (modelling related MPH with BODE³)
• Sian Ryan (literature search related MPH with BODE³ and contribution to modelling heart healthy bread)
• Jono Drew (greenhouse gas modelling related MPH with BODE³)

Collaborators

• Ministry of Health - Burden of Disease Study
• University of Melbourne (where Professor Blakely has a professorial position and there are shared interests in league table development; the Python platform for modelling; tobacco modelling; and cardiovascular disease modelling)
• University of Auckland – particularly with dietary interventions (Professor Cliona Ni Mhurchu is on the BODE³ Executive)
• ASPIRE 2025 who conduct research around NZ's Smokefree 2025 Goal (Prof Wilson is a member of ASPIRE)
• Oxford University, UK – for model comparisons, cardiovascular disease modelling and ongoing collaborations with Prof Philip Clarke, Associate Professor Pete Scarborough and Dr Linda Cobiac
• Hāpai te Hauora – particularly in terms of Hāpai's National Tobacco Control Advocacy Service (BODE³ has a MoU with Hāpai)
• DHBs with shared specific projects: Counties Manuka DHB, Waitemata DHB
• PHARMAC – given shared interest in diabetes modelling
• Cancer Council of New South Wales, Australia – with a shared interest in tobacco control modelling (via Professor Karen Canfell)
• University of Queensland, Australia – with a shared interest in e-cigarette modelling (via Associate Professor Coral Gartner)
• Associate Professor Haxby Abbott - University of Otago (for a joint HRC Project involving economic analyses of improved osteoarthritis management)

Programme Advisory Group Members

• Ashley Bloomfield
• John Childs
• Peter Crampton
• Bronwyn Croxson
• Richard Edwards
• Jackie Fawcett
• Peter Guthrie
• Kevin Moffatt
• Jan Pearson
• Bridie Richardson
• Bridget Robson
• Andrew Simpson
• Vladimir Stevanovic
• Ricarda Vandervorst
• Deborah Woodley