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Jason Gurney imageBSc(Hons), PhD
Research Associate Professor and Director, Cancer and Chronic Conditions (C3) Research Group

Contact details  

Email jason.gurney@otago.ac.nz

Research interests and activities  

Associate Professor Jason Gurney (Ngāpuhi) is an epidemiologist and Director of the Cancer and Chronic Conditions (C3) Research Group at the University of Otago.  Jason is currently leading multiple national-level projects on equity in health outcomes for Māori, with a focus on cancer.

Jason is currently a Health Research Council (HRC) Māori Emerging Leader Fellow, and Principal Investigator of several HRC-funded projects examining topics including post-operative mortality, the co-occurrence of cancer and diabetes, and equity of access to treatment for Māori with lung cancer.  He is also currently seconded two days per week to Te Aho o Te Kahu – Cancer Control Agency as their Senior Epidemiologist.

Jason is a member of the Public Health Advisory Committee (PHAC), which provides independent public health advice to the Minister of Health.  He also currently sits on the HRC Public Health Research Committee; Health Quality and Safety Commission (HQSC) Perioperative Mortality Review Committee; Hei Āhuru Mōwai (Māori Cancer Leadership Aotearoa); the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP) Cancer Intelligence and Data Infrastructure Network; the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand; and multiple Te Aho o Te Kahu working groups.  Jason is also co-Chair of an HRC Science Assessing Committee.

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Publications

Baade, P. D., Cameron, J. K., Cramb, S. M., Haroon, M., Gurney, J., & Dasgupta, P. (2024). Communicating cancer survival inequalities among Indigenous and Tribal peoples. In G. Garvey (Ed.), Indigenous and tribal peoples and cancer. (pp. 287-293). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-56806-0_61 Chapter in Book - Research

Jeon, M. H., Gurney, J., Garvey, G., & Diaz, A. (2024). Cancer and comorbidity in Indigenous populations. In G. Garvey (Ed.), Indigenous and tribal peoples and cancer. (pp. 233-236). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-56806-0_48 Chapter in Book - Research

Clough, S., Wheeler, M., Stanley, J., Signal, V., Ruka, M., Koea, J., & Gurney, J. (2024). Blood cancer incidence, mortality and survival for Māori in New Zealand. Cancer Epidemiology, 93, 102656. doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2024.102656 Journal - Research Article

Signal, V., Smith, M., Costello, S., Davies, A., Dawkins, P., Jackson, C. G. C. A., Koea, J., Whitehead, J., & Gurney, J. (2024). Indigenous access to clinical services along the lung cancer treatment pathway: A review of current evidence. Cancer Causes & Control. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s10552-024-01904-1 Journal - Research Other

Lawrenson, R., Lao, C., Stanley, J., Kuper-Hommel, M., Campbell, I., Krebs, J., Sika-Paotonu, D., … Stairmand, J., & Gurney, J. (2024). Does diabetes affect systematic treatments for breast cancer? Proceedings of the 47th New Zealand Society for the Study of Diabetes (NZSSD) Annual Scientific Meeting. P1. Retrieved from https://www.nzssd.org.nz/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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