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  • What will the Government’s free vape starter kit programme achieve?

    … Calvin Cochran, Research Fellow, ASPIRE Aotearoa Research Centre, Department of Public Health, University of Otago Wellington.  Dr Jude Ball , ASPIRE Aotearoa Research Centre, and Senior Research Fellow, Department of Public … Prof Janet Hoek , Co-Director of ASPIRE Aotearoa Research Centre, and Department of Public Health, University of Otago …
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  • Earth Overshoot Day: Should Aotearoa New Zealand be more like Uruguay?

    … Prof Michael Baker , Director, Public Health Communication Centre, and Department of Public Health, Ōtākou Whakaihu … Dr John Kerr , Science Lead, Public Health Communication Centre, and Department of Public Health, Ōtākou Whakaihu … Simon Hales , Co-Director, Public Health Communication Centre, and Department of Public Health, Ōtākou Whakaihu …
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  • The case for a NZ-Australia Pandemic Cooperation Agreement

    … Nick Wilson , Co-Director, Public Health Communication Centre, and Department of Public Health, Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka | University of Otago Prof John D Potter , Centre of Public Health Research, Massey University | Te … Prof Michael Baker , Director, Public Health Communication Centre, and Department of Public Health, University of Otago …
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  • Air pollution in Aotearoa NZ: Five key ways to reduce the massive health and social costs

    … size is taken into account, Invercargill emerges as the centre where air pollution is having the greatest impact (an … deaths per 100,000 people aged 30+ years), followed by Christchurch City (206 per 100,000), and Waitaki District …
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  • Tighter controls on vape marketing due, but gaps remain

    … Prof Janet Hoek , Co-Director of ASPIRE Aotearoa Research Centre, and Department of Public Health, University of Otago Wellington Dr Jude Ball , ASPIRE Aotearoa Research Centre, and Senior Research Fellow, Department of Public … Calvin Cochran, Research Fellow, ASPIRE Aotearoa Research Centre, Department of Public Health, University of Otago …
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  • Using Rapid Antigen Tests to improve COVID-19 control in Aotearoa NZ

    … specifies that point of care test kits are regulated as medical devices. What are rapid antigen tests? RATs are an … Wellington. Assoc Prof James Ussher, is Director, Webster Centre for Infectious Diseases, University of Otago, Dunedin. …
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  • Long Covid: High economic burden justifies further preventive efforts

    … Dr John Kerr , Science Lead, Public Health Communication Centre, and Department of Public Health, University of Otago … Nick Wilson , Co-Director, Public Health Communication Centre, and Department of Public Health, University of Otago … Prof Michael Baker , Director, Public Health Communication Centre, and Department of Public Health, University of Otago …
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  • Has the time come for a register of AI systems used by government agencies?

    … idea in the recent  AI-in-healthcare report is that medical AI systems operating in NZ should be publicly … Dr John Kerr , Science Lead, Public Health Communication Centre, and Department of Public Health, University of Otago … Prof Michael Baker , Director, Public Health Communication Centre, and Department of Public Health, University of Otago …
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  • Counting what matters: Rethinking Aotearoa's population statistics without a census

    … of Waikato   Associate Professor Barry Milne - Director Centre of Methods and Policy Application in the Social … Professor Kate Prickett -  Director, Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children, Awhi Rito Te … University of Waikato Professor Peter Crampton - Kōhatu, Centre for Hauora Māori, University of Otago Appendix: The …
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  • COVID-19 in Aotearoa: what does public health do now?

    … response demands us to place saving Māori lives at the centre, however this is best achieved. The public health unit … Hauora Māori, Department of Māori Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland …
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