More than $1m secured in HRC funding to reduce burden of leptospirosis

Jackie Benschop

A Massey-led study has been awarded $1,199,841 from the latest Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) funding round to undertake a nationwide case-control study of the disease leptospirosis.  A common workplace hazard in New Zealand’s agricultural sector, leptospirosis can cause disease and death in animals. It can also transfer to humans through direct or…

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HRC funding for developing an optimal strategy for the rheumatic fever endgame

Professor Michael Baker

Public health researcher Professor Michael Baker from the University of Otago, Wellington has been awarded $1,196,974 to develop an optimal strategy for the rheumatic fever endgame. Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and its serious complication rheumatic heart disease (RHD) produce large ethnic health inequities and remain important causes of preventable suffering and death for Māori and…

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Otago researchers help unlock answers about leptospirosis in Africa

Michael Maze

University of Otago researchers are helping lead international studies which have discovered that exposure to cattle and rice farming are risk factors for the devastating disease leptospirosis in northern Tanzania. Dr Michael Maze from the University of Otago’s Centre for International Health, says the findings from two research papers, which have just been published in…

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