Research within this theme examines trends in wellbeing and mechanisms for advancing health equity. Demographic and epidemiologic analyses underpins research across a broad range of topics including: the broader determinants of population health; health services and their delivery; health and social inequalities; health and wellbeing policy and the research-policy interface; measuring and monitoring whānau ora and wellbeing, particularly through longitudinal and life course epidemiological analyses of the Growing Up in New Zealand study; child health equity in the context of families and communities; disease prevention; health promotion; and wellbeing advocacy.

Projects within this research theme include explorations of pathways into homelessness and opportunities to sustain healthy, secure and safe housing; a holistic whānau-based intervention to identify and address health determinants in the inpatient paediatric ward; wellbeing capacity building for the support of whānau engaged in the Oranga Tamariki Children's Team; Cook Island wellbeing, research ethics and capacity building; and access to identity as a determinant of wellbeing and health equity.

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Associate Professor Polly Atatoa Carr

Theme Convenor

Associate Professor Polly Atatoa Carr’s research and clinical practice focuses on the broader determinants of population health and wellbeing equity, particularly for tamariki and rangatahi/mapū within the context of whānau and community. Polly is passionate about developing robust evidence to support population health and policy translation, and is comm…