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2010

26 March - Jorn Olsen. Reproductive failures related to prenatal exposures to PFOA and PFOS: Results from the Danish National Birth Cohort.
16 March - Lisa Lee. Ethics and public health surveillance: what should we be considering?
11 May - Geoff Simmons. The “Policy Prescription”.

2009

10 February - Steven T. Fleming. How to Adjust for Misclassification Bias Case Study: Smoking and Low Birth Weight Newborns.
03 March - Gail Garvey, Patricia Valery. Indigenous research program including recent initiatives in cancer and the outcomes of their research in the far north of Australia (Torres Strait) on asthma.
06 March - Mona Jeffreys. Socioeconomic inequalities in cancer survival in New Zealand.
31 March - Sebastian Morgan-Lynch. Getting to grips with health information privacy.
5 May - Neil Pearce. How to analyse a data set with many variables.
4 August - Allan Smith. Further findings on mortality in young adults following early life exposure to arsenic.
11 August - Bianca Claas. Self-reported oral health and access to dental care among pregnant women in Wellington.
25 August - Naomi Brewer. Does screening history explain the ethnic differences in stage at diagnosis of cervical cancer?
- Amanda Eng. Differences in Occupational Exposure Patterns;
- Marine Corbin. Occupation and Lung Cancer: Results from a New Zealand cancer registry-based case-control study.

28 August - Anthony D LaMontagne. Intervention research for the improvement of Occupational Health & Safety policy and practice .
7 September - Stephen Kunitz. Political culture, social capital, and mortality in America.
8 September - Sander Greenland. Investigator bias as a major problem in health research and justice in the United States.
22 September - Marine Corbin. Bayesian methods in epidemiology.
8 October – Jeroen Douwes. Prevention of allergies and asthma : lessons from the farm environment.
13 October - Bianca Claas. Self-reported oral health and access to dental care among pregnant women in Wellington.
27 October - Andrea t’Mannetje. Non-response and its effects in a National occupational exposure and health survey: 15 lessons from the Burden Study.
10 November - Collin Brooks. Innate immunity in asthma.
20 November - James McGlothlin. Video Exposure Monitoring: The development and application of an occupational hygiene exposure and risk assessment tool.
24 November - Nina Hermansen. Eyemother - Sampi birth stories.

2008

10 March - Wijnand Eduard. Fungi, MVOC and mycotoxins in indoor air.
11 March - Raymond Neutra. Ethical Guidelines for Risk Assessment.
14 March - Neil Pearce. Corporate influences on epidemiology.
22 April - Paul White. Coughs and sneezes spread diseases: how we'll know when you've got bird flu.
06 May - Andrea 't Mannetje. The New Zealand Job-Exposure-Matrix (NZJEM).
27 May - Dave McLean. Health outcomes in former New Zealand timber workers exposed to pentachlorophenol (PCP).
03 June - Andrea 't Mannetje, Dave McLean, Neil Pearce. Occupational cancer in adult New Zealanders: Case-control studies of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, leukemia and bladder cancer.
11 June - Fiona McKenzie. Breast cancer survival in New Zealand.
- Amanda Eng. Epidemiological studies of occupational exposures and health effects in the New Zealand workforce.

21 July - Colin Cryer. Occupational Injury Research at the IPRU.
22 July - Geoff Kira. Fitness and fatness: ethnic or economic?.
19 August - Naomi Brewer. Epidemiological studies of cervical cancer in New Zealand. - Collin Brooks. Innate immunity and asthma.
2 September - Steven T. Fleming. Cancer survival analysis: concepts and caveats.
4 November - Steven T. Fleming. Diabetes, Asthma, Cancer Screening, and "Medical Home" Attributes: Is there a Connection?
11 November - Sarah Hill. Maori/non-Maori disparities in colon cancer treatment and survival - results from a retrospective cohort study.
20 November - Andrea Forde. The Public Health Consequences of a Disaster: the Wenchuan Earthquake.
21 November - Henrik Moller. Cancer incidence, care and outcomes in ethnic groups in South East England.

2007

23 February - Neil Pearce. What causes asthma?
06 March - Carlos Camargo. Body Mass Index (BMI) and asthma.
13 March - Neil Pearce. Why we should all be Bayesians (and often are without realising it).
30 March - Neil Pearce. Dioxin.
08 May - Carlos Carmargo. Developing the U.S. Dietary Guidelines: Science and politics.
05 June - Neil Pearce. The analysis of variance and the analysis of causes: Genetics, race, ethnicity, obesity, exercise, energy intake, and why you shouldn't use stepwise regression.
12 July - Naomi Brewer. Cervical cancer survival in New Zealand.
31 July - Christine van Dalen. Spirometric testing for airflow obstruction in young adult asthmatics.

21 August - Michelle Gray. What works for interviewing Maori;
- Amanda Eng. Childhood socioeconomic status and mortality from stroke and schaemic heart disease in New Zealand.
31 August - Mauricio Barreto. Social Change Asthma and Allergies in Latin America: An overview and preliminary results of a research programme in Brazil and Ecuador.

13 November - Nathaniel Marshall. Severe sleep apnea as an independent risk factor for all cause mortality: The Busselton Health Study Cohort

2006

24 January - Stuart Harrad. How clean is your home? The significance of indoor environments as a source of exposure to persistent organic pollutants. 28 February - Sunia Foliaki and Neil Pearce. The Tonga asthma self-management project.
22 March - Wendyl D'Souza. Epilepsy epidemiology: The Tasmanian Epilepsy Study ?a unique population-based cohort.
04 April - Allan Smith. Recent findings from the natural arsenic experiment in Chile.
11 April - Milena Maule. A Bayesian approach to spatial and temporal analyses of cancer incidence and mortality data.
30 May - Dave McLean. High dust and bacterial endotoxin exposures in poultry processing -a respiratory health risk?
13 June - Stefano Rosso. Case-control study on cutaneous malignant melanoma and melanins: a Bayesian approach.
25 July - Jeroen Douwes. Farm exposure in utero may protect against asthma, hay fever and eczema: A cross sectional study in New Zealand farmers' children and rural controls.
09 August - Neil Pearce. What causes asthma?
24 October - Neil Pearce. Using Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) to consider issues of confounding.
07 November - Karen Blakey. WHO Long Form reliability, validity and norms for New Zealand.

2005

22 February - Ate Moala. Tuberculosis among Pacific People.
08 March - Sara Arber. Negotiating sleep among couples across the life course. s
23 March - Mona Jeffreys. Weight patterns, diabetes and mortality.
12 April - Jeroen Douwes. How useful are measures of airway inflammation in epidemiological studies?
26 April - Paul White. A strategy for analysing population health impacts arising from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry's airborne spray eradication programme.
10 May - Stan Abbott. Roof-collected rainwater consumption and health.
07 June - Mona Jeffreys. The influence of recall errors in anthropometry on interpreting associations with cancer.
28 June - Sylvia Rumball. Research Ethics at Massey University.
12 July - Christine van Dalen. Does spirometry accurately assess asthma severity-control in adolescent asthmatics?
09 August - Rod Lea. Population genetics meets public health: Relevance to smoking and Maori.
30 August - Dave McLean. Formaldehyde exposure and respiratory symptoms in New Zealand plywood mill workers.
27 September - Mona Jeffreys. The burden of undiagnosed diabetes in New Zealand;
- Naomi Brewer. New Zealand linkage study examining the association between HbA1c concentration, mortality and hospital discharges;
- Noemie Travier. Association between glycosylated haemoglobin and cancer risk: a New Zealand linkage study.

11 October - Sarah-Jane Paine. Early Birds and Night Owls: a survey of morningness/eveningness in the general population.
25 October - Neil Pearce. Worldwide trends in the prevalence of asthma symptoms: Phase III of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC).
08 November - Andrea 't Mannetje. Bladder cancer risk in sales workers: artefact or cause for concern? A systematic review.
25 November - Dave Kennaway. Chronobiology - It is about time!
29 November - Philippa Gander. Sleep, safety and health: challenges for aviation.
13 December - Wijnand Eduard. A criteria document on fungal spores in the work environment.

2004

10 February - Jeroen Douwes. Asthma in farmers' children and their parents
02 March - Sunia Foliaki. Asthma in the Pacific
08 March - Iain Martin. Upper gastrointestinal cancer in Maori
29 March - Nancy Krieger. Geocoding and monitoring US socioeconomic
inequalities in health: does choice of area-based measure & geographic level matter? The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project

31 March - Alex Scott-Samuel. Health inequalities and health politics
06 April - Rowena Cave. An overview of the development and implementation of evidence-based guidelines
20 April - Tom Jeavons. The effect of reduction of indoor moulds on asthma outcomes: a pilot Australian study
27 April - Andrea 't Mannetje. Dioxin and cancer: A cohort study in New Zealand workers
25 May - Diana Martin. New Zealand's meningococcal epidemic - the
science behind vaccine control

08 June - Christine van Dalen. Development of biomarkers in Asthma
15 June - Anouk Niesink. The influence of farming on asthma in children: initial results
20 July - Mona Jeffreys. Ethnic differences in cancer survival in New Zealand
27 July - Jeff Fowles, Rod Lea, David Phillips. Exploring mechanisms of addiction to and toxicity of tobacco
03 August - Neil Pearce. Socio-economic factors, income inequality, social capital and health
07 September - Allanah Ryan. Competing Models of Social Justice for Reducing Health Inequalities: A Matter of Redistribution and/or Recognition
21 September - Debbie Ryan, Karen Blakey. The Pacific Health Chartbook 2004
07 October - Heather Purnell. Safety implications of work patterns among junior doctors; Nat Marshall. Continuous positive airway pressure reduces sleepiness in mild-moderate obstructive sleep apnea: Meta analysis
08 October - Harvey Checkoway. Occupational Exposures and Cancer Risks among Women Textile Workers in Shanghai
18 October - Hans Kromhout. Quantitative estimation of exposure to welding fumes in an international general population study on asthma; Wijnand Eduard. Respiratory diseases and work-related symptoms in Norwegian farmers and associations with bioaerosol exposure
17 November - Bengt Bjorksten. Microbial exposure and infections early in life as modifiers of allergy/asthma development
23 November - Neil Pearce, Andrea 't Mannetje. The burden of occupational disease and injury in New Zealand

2003

18 March - Leigh Signal, Philippa Gander. Is your pilot awake? Auckland to London non-stop
25 March - Neil Pearce. Don't kill the cat! Why asthma is more complicated than you think
04 April - Neil Pearce, Dave McLean. Cancer in agricultural workers
08 April - Nat Marshall. Sleep and the reaper: connections between abnormal sleep and death
13 June - Catherine Cohet. Polymorphisms in the AGT gene and lung cancer risk in non-smokers exposed to second-hand smoke
02 July - Evan Dryson. The OSH Occupational Cancer Project
08 July - Ian Laird. Occupational health research at Massey University
15 July - Mona Jeffreys. Life-course epidemiology and breast cancer
22 July - Dave McLean. Cancer in meatworkers
19 August
- Andrea 't Mannetje. Exposure to metal compounds and lung cancer: Results from an IARC case-control study in Central and Eastern Europe
26 August- Sarah-Jane Paine. Insomnia: a problem of poverty? An epidemiological study of insomnia in New Zealand
16 September - Allan Smith. Lung cancer and chronic respiratory disease from drinking arsenic in water

30 September - Christine Stephens. Social capital: does social connectedness work to benefit all?
07 October - Elana Curtis and Craig Wright. The epidemiology of breast cancer in Maori women: implications for screening
14 October - Chin Moi Chow. Exercise and sleep in poor sleepers
04 November - Philippa Gander. Sleep problems: who has them and why it matters
11 November - Tony Blakely. Decades of disparity: ethnic mortality trends in New Zealand 1980-1999

2002

26 March - Lucy Carpenter. Associations between occupation and cancer using a novel approach to routinely collected data: England and Wales, 1971-1990
17 September - Josee Lavoie. Doing it right? Preliminary reflections on models of PHC transfer to indigenous communities
16 December - Matthew Shaw. Changes in gender, power and identity in villages in Gambia

 

 

 

 

 

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