Dr Polly E Atatoa Carr

Associate Professor

Qualifications: MBChB, MSc, MPH, FNZCPHM

Public health physician specialising in improving population health and equity with expertise in:

Translational research to ensure that research findings inform the development of policy and programmes to improve population health and equity;
Longitudinal epidemiological analysis of the developmental pathways that lead to health and wellbeing and equity across the life course;
Vulnerable populations;
Ethnicity data collection, analysis and interpretation;
Māori and Pacific health and wellbeing;
The broader determinants of health;
Research ethics and the relationship between community and research practise.

Children; Health; Population Studies

Ly, K., Walker, C., Berry, S., Snell, R., Marks, E., Thayer, Z., . . . Morton, S. (2019). Telomere length in early childhood is associated with sex and ethnicity. Scientific Reports, 9(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-019-46338-x
Nathan, K., Robertson, O., Atatoa Carr, P., Howden-Chapman, P., & Pierse, N. (2019). Residential mobility and socioemotional and behavioural difficulties in a preschool population cohort of New Zealand children. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. doi:10.1136/jech-2019-212436
Hobbs, M. R., Atatoa Carr, P., Fa'alili-Fidow, J., Pillai, A., Morton, S. M. B., & Grant, C. C. (2019). How differing methods of ascribing ethnicity and socio-economic status affect risk estimates for hospitalisation with infectious disease. Epidemiology & Infection, 147, 1-9. doi:10.1017/S0950268818002935
Whitehead, J., Pearson, A. L., Lawrenson, R., & Atatoa-Carr, P. (2019). Spatial equity and realised access to healthcare - a geospatial analysis of general practitioner enrolments in Waikato, New Zealand. Rural and Remote Health, 19(4), 5349. doi:10.22605/RRH5349

Name		Extn.		Username		Room		Department
Atatoa Carr, AProf Polly		5040		patatoac		K.3.02		National Institute Demographic Economic

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