Dr Polly E Atatoa Carr
Associate Professor
Qualifications: MBChB, MSc, MPH, FNZCPHM
Research Interests
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.
Expertise
Children; Health; Population Studies
Recent Publications
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
Pierse, N., Ombler, J., White, M., Aspinall, C., McMinn, C., Atatoa-Carr, P., . . . Howden-Chapman, P. (2019). Service usage by a New Zealand Housing First cohort prior to being housed. SSM - Population Health, 8, 1-10. doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100432
Atatoa Carr, P., Reese, E., Bird, A. L., Bandara, D. K., Grant, C. C., & Morton, S. M. B. (2019). Caring for our infants: parents’ antenatal childcare intentions and nine-month reality. Early Years, 39(1), 17-35. doi:10.1080/09575146.2017.1323186
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
Papers I Teach
Contact Details
| Name | Extn. | Username | Room | Department | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atatoa Carr, AProf Polly | 5040 | patatoac | K.3.02 | National Institute Demographic Economic |
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