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.

Whitehead, J., Pearson, A. L., Lawrenson, R., & Atatoa-Carr, P. (2020). Defining general practitioner and population catchments for spatial equity studies using patient enrolment data in Waikato, New Zealand. Applied Geography, 115. doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2019.102137
Scott, N., Bennett, H., Masters-Awatere, B., Sarfati, D., Atatoa-Carr, P., & Harris, R. (2020). Indigenous Cancer Research: Reflections on Roles and Responsibilities. JCO Global Oncology, (6), 143-147. doi:10.1200/jgo.19.00124 Open Access version: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13415
Masters-Awatere, B., Graham, R., Atatoa Carr, P., & Scott, N. (2020). Meal provision needed for caregivers who stay with a child in hospital. International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation. doi:10.1037/ipp0000131
Atatoa Carr, P., Sadani, S., Whitehead, J., McManus-Emery, D., Parsonson, T., & Roe, J. (2020). Supporting child wellbeing: a health assessment tool for the Hamilton Children’s Team. Policy Quarterly, 16(1), 10-17. doi:10.26686/pq.v16i1.6350

Children; Health; Population Studies

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

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