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Lucy Telfar-Barnard PhD
Senior Research Fellow; He Kainga Oranga – Housing and Health Research Programme, HEIRU 

Contact details

Tel +64 4 832 3576
Email lucy.telfar-barnard@otago.ac.nz

Research interests and activities

Lucy's research interests cover seasonal and cold-temperature related morbidity and mortality; respiratory disease epidemiology; housing quality; tenancy law; and implementation of the WHO Healthy Housing Guidelines.

She produces the biennial Impact of Respiratory Disease report for the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation, and is currently on the Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Board. Lucy also co-ordinates He Kāinga Oranga’s WHO Collaborating Centre on Housing and wellbeing.

Publications

Yasbek, P., & Telfar-Barnard, L. (2025). Good firearms law needs multiple defensive layers: The Swiss cheese model. The Briefing, (13 February). Retrieved from https://www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/good-firearms-law-needs-multiple-defensive-layers-swiss-cheese-model Journal - Research Other

Dohig, R. K., O'Sullivan, K. C., Telfar-Barnard, L., & Howden-Chapman, P. (2024). ‘I think life changed for everybody from the first lockdown’: Public housing tenants’ experiences of COVID-19 public health and social measures in Aotearoa New Zealand. International Journal of Housing Policy. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/19491247.2024.2438294 Journal - Research Article

Telfar Barnard, L., Eagles, A., Grimes, A., Howden-Chapman, P., Phipps, R., & Viggers, H. (2024). New Zealand's hard-won improvements to our Building Code must be retained: Here's why. The Briefing, (29 July). Retrieved from https://www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/new-zealands-hard-won-improvements-our-building-code-must-be-retained-heres-why Journal - Research Other

Telfar-Barnard, L., Baker, M., Howden-Chapman, P., & Wilson, N. (2024). Surviving winter: NZ's journey through 145 years of seasonal survival: New study. The Briefing, (9 May). Retrieved from https://www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/surviving-winter-nzs-journey-through-145-years-seasonal-survival-new-study Journal - Research Other

Fraser, B., Aspinall, C., Chisholm, E., Ombler, J., Bierre, S., Telfar-Barnard, L., Johnson, E., & Howden-Chapman, P. (2024). A snapshot of a fragmented landscape: Homelessness law and policy in Aotearoa New Zealand. In C. Bevan (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of global perspectives on homelessness, law & policy. (pp. 500-516). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003274056-35 Chapter in Book - Research

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