Professor of Public Health, University of Otago
Nick trained as a medical doctor and subsequently specialised as a public health physician. He has over 450 Medline-indexed publications in peer-reviewed journals. His research interests include:
- The health economics of primary prevention (see the BODE³ Programme).
- Tobacco use epidemiology and control (see the ITC project website and other tobacco control work).
- Infectious disease control (particularly pandemic influenza but also other infectious diseases).
- Climate change and air pollution.
100 days without COVID-19: how New Zealand got rid of a virus that keeps spreading across the world
Aug 09, 2020 22:45 pm UTC| Health
On Sunday, New Zealand marked 100 days without community transmission of COVID-19. From the first known case imported into New Zealand on February 26 to the last case of community transmission detected on May 1,...
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