Professor Michael Baker MNZM, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington has received the Callaghan Medal for science-informed commentary on the Covid-19 pandemic and other major public health issues in New Zealand. Professor Baker has been a leading public health researcher and practitioner for 30 years. During that time, he has been one of…

The OHA Symposium Organising Committee have released the preliminary programme for our 8th symposium taking place in Wellington and online on 6-7 December 2022. Full details, including the preliminary programme and registration for the symposium, can be found here.

We are delighted to announce that Dr Kristin Dyet has been appointed as the new One Health Aotearoa Co-director, joining Professor Iain Lamont at the helm of OHA. Kristin joined ESR in 2006 and is a Senior Scientist in the Health and Environment Group, based at ESR’s Kenepuru Science Centre in Wellington. She is a microbiologist who has skills…

Our latest newsletter announces that Dr Kristin Dyet is our new OHA Co-director and contains all the latest information about the 8th OHA Symposium to be held in Wellington in early December. View the OHA Spring 2022 newsletter.

A key initiative aimed at boosting Aotearoa New Zealand’s COVID‑19 response and preparing for future disease outbreaks has taken a significant step forward with the appointment of co‑directors to the newly formed Infectious Disease Research Platform (IDRP). The Platform, co‑hosted by the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) and the University of Otago, is…

University of Otago-led research has uncovered the strongest evidence yet that household overcrowding is a major risk factor for acute rheumatic fever and streptococcal infections of the skin. Their research is published in two companion articles in the international medical journal The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific. Lead researcher Professor Michael Baker of the…

Our latest newsletter announces our new Co-director and Management Group members, includes the save the date information for our 8th annual symposium later this year and congratulates the recipient of the Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize 2022. View the OHA Autumn 2022 newsletter.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Iain Lamont has been appointed as the new One Health Aotearoa Co-director, joining Professor Nigel French at the helm of OHA. Iain is based in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Otago and has been a member of OHA since it was started in 2013. He…

Dr Jemma Geoghegan wants to “demolish the stereotype of what a scientist looks like”. Dr Geoghegan has today become just the second woman to win the Te Puiaki Kaipūtaiao Maea Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize. The University of Otago researcher is one of the scientists behind New Zealand’s COVID-19 genome sequencing programme and plans…

One Health Aotearoa investigators have been highly sought after as opinion leaders on the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to providing technical advice to various authorities, our investigators have featured prominently in the media in the effort to provide accurate and timely expert opinion on this developing situation and to keep New Zealand informed. A number…