News and events

Chances are you don’t give much thought to what’s going on in your gut, unless you have an upset tummy. But the gut – and the population of bacteria that live there – is the new frontier in health research. The microbiome, as it’s known, …

A Healthier Lives National Science Challenge study using New Zealand linked datasets reveals the impact of residential housing damage from the 2010/11 Canterbury earthquakes on hospital admissions for cardiovascular disease. The research found that people living in areas with more severely damaged homes in the …

Imagine going to your doctor and coming away not with a prescription for pharmaceuticals – but for an app to download to your phone. This is a scenario that’s in the not-too-distant future, in particular for our Māori and Pacific communities, if a new project …

Diabetes NZ Inc and the Healthier Lives National Science Challenge have signed a Statement of Collaboration. They aim to work together to raise the profile of diabetes research and issues in New Zealand, and to ensure that Challenge research is relevant to people with diabetes. …

Healthier Lives Director Professor Jim Mann is delighted with today’s announcement of $2.3 million for two new research projects, one that focuses on interventions for prediabetes in Pacific communities, and the other on integrated healthcare for people with multiple chronic conditions. The Healthier Lives National …

Healthier Lives Deputy Director Cliona Ni Mhurchu is the lead researcher in a new study examining the influence of the Health Star Rating (HSR) system on packaged food products. It appears that the star ratings are encouraging revisions of formulations of some products. The study found about …

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 …