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The Team The Alcohol & Public Health
Research Unit comprises a core research unit with support
staff, and a network of contract researchers,
interviewers and additional support staff who work on
particular short or long term projects in the alcohol,
drug, nutrition, health promotion and evaluation fields. The resarch
team includes:
| Director |
Professor Sally Casswell |
| Associate Directors: |
Helen Moewaka Barnes |
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Karen Witten |
| Statisticians: |
Dr Krishna
Dev Bhatta ,
Dr Megan Pledger,
Dug Yeo Han
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| Researchers |
Kim Conway,
Alison Greenaway |
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Dr
Tim McCreanor, Adrian Field,
Jeff Adams |
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Gayl Humphrey, Dr Chris
Wilkins,
Dr Paul Duignan, Taisia
Huckle, Maire Leadbetter, Sharon Milne, Pauline
Proud, Lanuola Asiasiga |
The administrative support
staff are:
| Administrator: |
Rachael
Lane |
| Project
Management |
Margaret
Woolgrove |
| Unit Secretary: |
Jan Sheeran |
| Librarian: |
Lisa Morice |
- Whariki the Maori research
group
- In 1994 Maori
researchers within the Alcohol & Public
Health Research Unit began to work as a team and
to develop their own autonomous areas of
expertise, under the the name Whariki. Its aim is
to provide high quality research by Maori for
Maori. Its focus is on health promotion, health
policy, injury prevention and health service
delivery.
The
Whariki research group consists of:
| Director |
Helen Moewaka Barnes, Ngati Wai / Ngäti Hine |
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Wendy Henwood, Te
Rarawa, Ngapuhi |
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Belinda
Borell, Ngati Ranginui, Ngai Te Rangi,
Whakatohea |
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Megan Tunks, Te Whanau-a-Apanui
Te Whakatohea |
- Qualifications
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- The Alcohol &
Public Health Research Unit's core and contract
staff have a wide range of formal qualifications
in health and research fields. As part of its
role as a training resource for research in
health promotion and the development of research
methodology, the Unit has among its researchers a
number of doctoral candidates and Health Research
Council training fellows.
The disciplines covered by
the team at present include:
Experimental,social and
community psychology, political science, sociology, He
Rangahau Maori, communications research, evaluation,
policy analysis, science, library and information
studies, business management, nursing, epidemiology, mathematical
statistics, market research, geography, and education.
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