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

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
Reese, E., Keegan, P., McNaughton, S., Kingi, T., Atatoa Carr, P., Schmidt, J., . . . Morton, S. (2017). Te Reo Māori: indigenous language acquisition in the context of New Zealand English. Journal of Child Language, 1-28. doi:10.1017/S0305000917000241
Berry, S. D., Walker, C. G., Ly, K., Snell, R. G., Carr, P. E. A., Bandara, D., . . . Grant, C. C. (2017). Widespread prevalence of a CREBRF variant amongst Māori and Pacific children is associated with weight and height in early childhood. International Journal of Obesity, 42(4), 603-607. doi:10.1038/ijo.2017.230
Lai, H. K., Berry, S. D., Verbiest, M. E. A., Tricker, P. J., Atatoa Carr, P. E., Morton, S. M. B., & Grant, C. C. (2017). Emergency department visits of young children and long-term exposure to neighbourhood smoke from household heating – The Growing Up in New Zealand child cohort study. Environmental Pollution, 231, 533-540. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2017.08.035

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

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