One Health Aotearoa Co-director Nigel French has been appointed distinguished professor, a title bestowed on up to 15 Massey University professors who have achieved outstanding international eminence in their fields. The appointment was confirmed by Massey University Vice-Chancellor Professor Jan Thomas last week. Formal presentations will be made next month. Distinguished Professor Nigel French, a…

Urgent and proactive action is needed to protect young people from the current mumps outbreak in New Zealand, says Dr Ayesha Verrall, an infectious diseases physician and researcher at the University of Otago, Wellington. New Zealand is in the grip of its worst mumps outbreak in decades. The outbreak started in Auckland early last year…

Our latest newsletter calls for expressions of interest to participate in our strategic retreat, re-caps our successful symposium held late last year and highlights the Risk, Response and Social Systems Group at ESR.   View the One Health Aotearoa Summer 2018 newsletter

Professor Iain Lamont from the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Otago is leading a project to unmask the genes in a superbug that make it resistant to antibiotic drugs used to treat and prevent bacterial infections. Lamont says that the rapid rise of superbugs – or bacteria that have become resistant to all…