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  • The changing COVID-19 situation in Taiwan – what can NZ learn from Taiwan’s latest outbreak?

    … epidemic, Taiwan established the National Health Command centre (NHCC) in 2004 which works alongside the CDC in … to the test: COVID-19 in Taiwan. Journal of the Formosan Medical Association = Taiwan yi zhi, 2020. 119 (4): p. …
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  • Oral tobacco and nicotine products: Quitting aid or teen addiction risk?

    … Authors details 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 … Richard Edwards , Co-Director of ASPIRE Aotearoa Research Centre, and 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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  • Clean ups are not enough: Government policy incoherent on climate change

    … of Otago Wellington, and Public Health Communication Centre Prof Michael Baker , Department of Public Health, … of Otago Wellington, and Public Health Communication Centre Prof Simon Hales , Department of Public Health, … of Otago Wellington, and Public Health Communication Centre   Appendix  Examples of direct and indirect risks to …
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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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  • Smoking and vaping among 14 to 15 year olds: Government action urgently needed

    … 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 Assistant Research Fellow, Department of Public … Wellington Prof Philip Gendall , ASPIRE Aotearoa Research Centre and Senior Research Fellow, Department of Public …
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  • World moving forward on the smokefree generation - Aotearoa NZ goes backwards

    … Prof Janet Hoek , Co-Director of ASPIRE Aotearoa Research 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 … Wellington  Dr Fiona Sing , Research Fellow, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Population Health, University of …
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