Healthier Lives is supporting a PhD project to examine how effective co-design is for developing a mobile health tool for Māori. Co-design is the partnership between researchers and end-users across the whole of the research activity. While there are a growing number of kaupapa Māori …
The Public Health Expert blog has recently released two articles that closely relate to Healthier Lives areas of research interest: The impact, risk, and opportunity with ‘big data’ in regard to health (including a study for Healthier Lives about cardiovascular disease impacts from earthquakes) Concerning …
A number of Healthier Lives team members and colleagues have had the strength of their research acknowledged with success in the latest Health Research Council of New Zealand funding round. We congratulate them all! We commend their research excellence and look forward to the benefits …
Healthier Lives Director, Professor Jim Mann, and colleague Professor Stewart Truswell (Sydney), celebrated the launch of the fifth edition of their Essentials of Human Nutrition textbook in Dunedin last week. While the book is intended for students of nutrition and dietetics, nutrition has a role …
‘Big Data’ is an increasingly important tool for health research worldwide, and can be an extremely cost-effective way of answering complex questions. In New Zealand we are fortunate to have some of the best national-level health and administrative data in the world but we are …
Healthier Lives National Science Challenge hosted a national research symposium on diabetes and obesity in Auckland on 17 March, 2017. Co-hosted with A Better Start National Science Challenge and Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research Centre, The Diabesity Crisis: how can we make a difference? symposium …
