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

Whitehead, J., Pearson, A. L., Lawrenson, R., & Atatoa-Carr, P. (2018). Framework for examining the spatial equity and sustainability of general practitioner services. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 26(5), 336-341. doi:10.1111/ajr.12471
Hobbs, M. R., Atatoa Carr, P., Fa'alili-Fidow, J., Pillai, A., Morton, S. M. B., & Grant, C. C. (2018). How differing methods of ascribing ethnicity and socio-economic status affect risk estimates for hospitalisation with infectious disease. Epidemiology & Infection, 1-9. doi:10.1017/S0950268818002935
Schilling, C., Hedges, M. R., Atatoa Carr, P. E., & Morton, S. (2018). Transitions in smoking across a pregnancy: New information from the Growing Up in New Zealand Longitudinal Study. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 22(5), 660-669. doi:10.1007/s10995-018-2434-0
Hanson-Manful, P., Whitcombe, A. L., Young, P. G., Atatoa Carr, P. E., Bell, A., Didsbury, A., . . . Moreland, N. J. (2018). The novel Group A Streptococcus antigen SpnA combined with bead-based immunoassay technology improves streptococcal serology for the diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever. Journal of Infection, 76(4), 361-368. doi:10.1016/j.jinf.2017.12.008

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

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