The 2025 Public Health Summer School will offer 19 short courses (1–3 days long) presented by an outstanding faculty of public health academics and practitioners. Courses vary from small group computer lab classes to interactive workshops and multi-speaker symposiums.
Please note that in 2025, there will be 8 courses offered online by Zoom (not in-person). All other courses are held face-to face in Wellington.
You are invited to register in a single course or create a programme based on your interests. Read more about the courses below or register now using the link below.
A limited number of Māori and Pacific scholarships may be available. Please apply via the registration page.
* Denotes a new course
Research, epidemiology and statistical methods
- Introductory biostatistics for health researchers – 10–11 February
- VHIN Introduction to research in the IDI – 11 February
- Practical skills for IDI data analysis – 12–14 February *
- Introduction to R – 12 February
- How to write a paper – 18 February
- Literature review and basic meta-analysis skills – 19 February
- Intermediate biostatistics: Regression methods – 20–21 February (Online)
Qualitative methods
- Introduction to NVivo – 14 February
- Introduction to qualitative methods – 17 February
Healthcare systems and evidence
- Strengthen policy for wellbeing, health and equity through Health Impact Assessment – 13 February (Online)
- Introduction to the New Zealand health system – 13 February (Online)
Māori and Pacific health and cultural competencies
- Introduction to Pacific health: Approaches for action – 19 February
Healthy public policy
- Syndemics: Reducing harmful cycles of infectious and chronic disease in Aotearoa New Zealand – 11 February (Online) *
- The Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 goal: How can we get here now? – 12 February (Online) *
- Countering mis- and dis-information in public health – 14 February (Online)
- Strengthening democracy: A how to guide – 17 February (Online) *
- Māori wellbeing: Hauora and housing – 18 February *
- A cancer strategy for Aotearoa 2030: What should be prioritised and why? – 20 February (Online) *
Contact us
- Contact name
- Kerrie Harford
- Address
- Summer School Manager
Department of Public Health
University of Otago, Wellington
PO Box 7343
Wellington South 6242
New Zealand - Tel
- +64 4 832 3208
- kerrie.harford@otago.ac.nz
- admin.publichealth.uow@otago.ac.nz