OIHRN research activities

COLLEAGUE

PROJECT and LOCATION

Preventive and Social Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago

Rick Audas

• Determinants of childhood morbidity (Cameroon, 2006-); with David Fielding

Brian Cox

• Cancer survival in different ethnic groups (New Zealand, 2007-)
• Management of lung cancer by ethnicity (New Zealand, 2007-)
• Cancer in Pacific Island People (New Zealand, 2006); with Namomo Schaff
• Worldwide Prevention and Control of Cancer (International, 2006-)

John Crump

• The impact and social ecology of bacterial zoonoses in northern Tanzania (Tanzania, 2011-15)
• Multi-country typhoid fever surveillance program in sub-Saharan Africa (Tanzania and other sites, 2011-)
• Globral burden of invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella infections (2011-)

Nigel Dickson

• Annual report on the Global AIDS epidemic (Global, 2000-)

Robin Gauld

• Comparative health systems in developed Asia (Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, 2004-)
• Health system decentralisation (2004-5)
• Primary Care in Indonesia (2003-4)
• East Timor’s health system (East Timor, 2000)

Peter Herbison

• Intervention against anaemia and micronutrient deficiencies through fortification and education (Cambodia, 2008-); Linked to nutrition - PhD (Susan Jack)

Philip Hill

• Pneumococcal surveillance system to accompany introduction of PCV in Africa (The Gambia, 2007-)
• Studies of defaulting from TB treatment (The Gambia, 2006-2008)
• Case Control study of Access to Healthcare in relation to under 5 death (The Gambia, 2006)
• Biomarkers of protective immunity against tuberculosis in Africa (Multiple African sites, 2005-)
• Tuberculosis case contact studies (The Gambia, 2002)

Phillip Hill,
Merrin Rutherford

• Longitudinal Evaluation of Risk Factors for Anti-TB Treatment Default and Non-Adherence Bandung, Indonesia (Indonesia, 2010-2012)
• Comparison of 9 months INH and 4 months RIF as therapy for latent TB infection (phase 3) (Indonesia, 2010-2016)
• Evaluation of a Quantiferon commercial test for Mycobacterium TB infection and disease in Bandung, Indonesia (Indonesia, 2009-2010)

Sophia Leon de la Barra

• A case study of the National Health and Medical Research Council - the evolution and impact of policy and capacity building strategies for Indigenous health research over a decade. (Australia, 1996 – 2006)

David Skegg

• International Collaboration of Epidemiological Studies of Cervical Cancer (Multiple countries, 2003)

Tamasailau Suaalii-Sauni

• Exploration of Pacific perspectives of Pacific models of mental health service delivery in NZ
• Who says yes? Collective and individual framing of Pacific children’s consent to and participation in research in NZ.
• Course Convenor for a postgraduate health research Otago University course taught in Samoa: Applied Social and Health Research in the Pacific (Samoa, 2010-2012)

Women's & Children's Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago

Barry Taylor

• Infant & child mortality studies (International inc - Ongoing)
• Diploma of Child Health (China, India, Fiji - 1990s)

Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine & Health Science, University of Otago

Peter Crampton

• Health seeking behaviour in relation to Diabetes (Tanzania, 2006-); PhD student with Richard Edwards
• Evidence-based tool for assessment of performance indicators in primary health care (New Zealand, 2005-07)

Richard Edwards

• Influences on health seeking behaviour in patients with diabetes (Tanzania, 2006-)
• Burden of Diabetes in Cameroon (Cameroon, 2003-2008)

Simon Hales

• Air pollution and climate exposure modelling and impacts (New Zealand, Europe, 2003-07, 2008-09)
• Effects of global environmental change (Global, 2000-07)

Michael Baker

• Ethnic & socioeconomic differences in pandemic influenza infection in NZ (New Zealand, 2010-2011)
• Studies of influenza history and risk in New Zealand and the Pacific (New Zealand/Pacific, 2006-08)
• Tuberculosis burden in the Pacific (Pacific, 2004-)

Nick Wilson

• Research work for IARC on second-hand smoke (International, 2008-)
• Influenza control in Pacific Island countries (Pacific, 2008)
• Studies on homicide of media workers (Mainly developing countries, 2007-)
• Immunisation – policy and planning research (Viet Nam/Mongolia, 2003/2007)
• Effectiveness of HiB vaccine in Fiji (Fiji/Pacific, 2002/03 [complete])
• Hepatitis B vaccine and Pacific Island countries (Pacific, 1998-2000 [complete])

George Thomson

• Effects of NZ trade on Pacific health, and the international law environment (Pacific)
• Studies on homicide of media workers (Mainly developing countries, 2007)
• Comparison of terrorism deaths with other causes (OECD plus, 2004-)
• Tobacco industry activity (Worldwide)

Mary McIntyre

• Peri-urban & rural flood plain mosquitoes (Chile, 2008)
• Green urban spaces and health (Brazil, 2007-08)
• Wetland EcoHealth (Chile & Iran, 2006-08)
• Peri-urban mosquitoes (Central Chile, 2006)

Pathology, Christchurch School of Medicine & Health Science, University of Otago

David Murdoch

• Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) ('Kenya, The Gambia, Mali, Zambia, South Africa, Bangladesh, Thailand, 2009-)
• Vaccine immunogenicity studies in children (Nepal, 2008-)
• Epidemiology of childhood infection in Kathmandu - (Nepal, 2005-)
• International Collaboration on Endocarditis (40 sites worldwide, 2001-)

Lance Jennings

• Influenza virus whole genome Sequencing (Multi-site, 2005-)
• HPV (Tokalau Is, 2005-)

Medicine, Christchurch School of Medicine & Health Science, University of Otago

Richard Troughton

• ASCEND multicentre acute heart failure study (North America, Europe, Asia, Pacific region, 2007-)

Geography, University of Otago

Tony Binns

• Connecting poor communities with the international market (South Africa, 2003-)
• Post-conflict development and reconstruction (Sierra Leone)
• Urban agriculture in Freetown (Sierra Leone)

Etienne Nel

• Urban Agriculture in Southern Africa (Zambia & South Africa, 2008-09)
• Economic Development in Samoa (Samoa, 2008-09)
• Local Economic Development/Small Town Development (South Africa, ongoing)

Human Nutrition (WHO collaborating Centre), University of Otago

Rosalind Gibson

• Enriching complementary foods with desiccated beef liver in Brazilian children (Brazil, 2010-)(WHO Collaborating Centre)
• Intervention against anaemia and micronutrient deficiencies through fortification and education (Cambodia, 2008-)
• Modification of complementary foods for infants in Zambia (Zambia, 2005-08)
• Observational and intervention studies of zinc and other micronutrients in humans in Ethiopia (Ethiopia, 2004-)

Tim Green and Murray Skeaff

• (TGonly) Weekly versus daily iron and folate supplementation program (Vietnam, 2006-)
• Assessment of vitamin D and B12  status in women of reproductive age (Fiji, 2006-)
• Folate and B12 Status of Women of Reproductive Age Living in Hanoi city and Hai Duong Province (Vietnam, 2005-)
• Vitamin D, PTH, and folate status of women of reproductive age (PRC, Malaysia, Indonesia, 2004-2007)

Bernard Venn

• Identification of nutritional deficiencies causing optic neuropathy in prisoners (Papua New Guinea, 2010-)

Edgar Centre for Diabetes Research, Human Nutrition, University of Otago

Emma Heydon,
Christine Thomson &
Jim Mann

• Iodine Status in a Sherpa community in the Khumbu region of Nepal (Nepal, 2007)

Jim Mann, Bernard Venn, Minako Kataoka and Kirsten Coppell

• Nutritional studies in Asian peoples with diabetes (Singapore, 2010-)

Sheila Skeaff, Christine Thomson

• Iodine status in women in India (India, 2006-)

Anthropology, University of Otago

Glenn Summerhayes

• Origins of Polynesians (Papua N Guinea, Ongoing)

Helen Leach

• Animal & Human domestication and its effects (Asia/Pacific, Completed)

Jacqui Leckie

• Gender and the Millenium Development Goals (Global, 2005-)
• History of psychiatry in the Pacific (Especially Fiji, 2002-)
• Indian Diaspora including health issues of migrants (Fiji, India, New Zealand, Ongoing)

Greg Rawlings

• Oversight agencies in the Pacific (Samoa, 2006)
• Drivers of change in Vanuatu (Fiji/ Vanuatu, 2006)
• International finance and tax laws & off-shore financing (Singapore, 2002-05)
• Impact of a tax haven on rates of poverty & socio-economic inequality (Vanuatu, 1995-2006)

Politics, University of Otago

Philip Nel

• Politics of Global health – the Global Fund (Global, 2006-)
• Politics of Global health – New Zealand Foreign policy and health issues (Global, 2006-)

Te Tumu - School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies, University of Otago

Jenny Bryant-Tokalau

• Foreshore and Seabed legislation in relation to Fiji (Fiji, 2007-)
• Film on urban squatting issues  in Viti-Levu, Fiji (Fiji, 2006)
• Donor Aid to Poverty and Environment in the Pacific (Pacific, 2005-07)

Anatomy & Structural Biology, Otago School of Medical Sciences, University of Otago

Hallie Buckley

• Museum samples analyses (Philippines, 2007-)
• Excavation of skeletons from 3000 year old cemetery site (Vanuatu, 2005)

Nancy Tayles

• Biology, in particular health, of pre-historic people through skeletal & dental analyses (Thailand, Burma & Cambodia, 1995-)

Economics, University of Otago

David Fielding & Stephen Knowles

• Impact of AID on economic development and morbidity/mortality (Multi-site, Ongoing)
• Social capital in the S. Pacific (Fiji, 2008-)
• Determinants of childhood morbidity and relation to social capital and trust (Cameroon, 2006-)

Stephen Knowles & Dorian Owen

• Social capital and health differences across countries (International, 2008-)
• Gender differences in child mortality/health (International, 2006-)

Malcom Cone

• A honey industry platform (Fiji, 2002-)

Informaton Science, University of Otago

Alec Holt

• Digital health - ICTD directions, initiatives and resources (Developing Countries - UN)
• E-governance, E-health framework: a Pacific peoples approach (Fiji, 2008-10)
• Electronic Health systems (Pakistan, 2008-10)
• Health informatics in medical technology laboratories (Saudi Arabia, 2007-08)
• Convergence of communication: consumer empowerment in an e-health scenario (Zimbabwe/South Africa, 2006-09)

Microbiology & Immunology, Otago School of Medical Sciences, University of Otago

Andrew Mercer

• Orf-virus as a vaccine delivery system (New Zealand/China/to expand, 1993-)

Frank Griffin

• TB control in wildlife (South Africa, 1995-)

Gerald Tannock

• Lacto-bacilli isolated from fermented foods (Thailand, 2006-)
• Bifido-bacteria in Ghana (Ghana, 2004)

John Tagg

• Sword & Shield approach to prevention of Rheumatic fever (India, 2007-)

Merilyn Hibma

• HPV typing and monitoring in relation to HPV vaccine (New Zealand and international, 2006-)

Greg Cook

• New drugs for tuberculosis (New Zealand)
• Identifying genes that down regulate metabolism (New Zealand)

Department of Pathology, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago

Jim Faed

• Haematology/transfusion work in the Pacific (Pacific countries, Ongoing)

Bioethics Centre, Division of Health Sciences, University of Otago

Jing-Bao Nie

• Ideologies and ethics of China’s Birth Control Programme (Urban and rural China, 2007-)
• Japanese wartime medical atrocities in China (China, 2003-5)

Psychology, University of Otago

Elaine Reese

• Intervention trials in cognitve development across ethnic groups (New Zealand but to expand to Pacific, 2005-)

School of Pharmacy, University of Otago

Stephen Duffull

• Various – mostly relating to adjunctive treatment of severe complicated malaria (Indonesia, ongoing)

Pauline Norris

• Quality of Medicines (Samoa, 2008-ongoing)
• Monitoring anti-biotic resistance (Samoa, 2007)
• Extent of anti-biotic prescribing in Samoa (Samoa, 2005)
• Knowledge & use of anti-biotics in Samoans in New Zealand & Samoa (New Zealand and Soamoa, 2004-06)

Susan Heydon

• Modern medicine and international aid: Khunde Hospital, (doctoral research) (Nepal, 2002-2006 and ongoing)

National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago

Karen Brounéus

• Truth telling and psychological health in postconflict peacebuilding. (Rwanda, Solomon Islands, 2009-2011)