Sarah Walker, a practising physiotherapist in a rural community, will determine whether rural allied health professionals in New Zealand require fundamentally different skills to their urban counterparts.
Pacific peoples in New Zealand have the highest drop-out rate for weight loss surgery, something a new study by emerging Pacific researcher Dr Tamasin Taylor aims to turn around.
Whangarei mental health nurse and nursing educator Phillipa (Pipi) Barton has been awarded a HRC Māori Career Development Award to improve Māori recruitment and retention into nursing.
Dr Lester Levy, Chair of the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC), is very pleased to advise that psychiatrist and researcher Professor Catherine (Sunny) Collings has been appointed the new
For her outstanding leadership and contribution to Māori health, Dr Matire Harwood (Ngāpuhi) was tonight awarded the HRC Te Tohu Rapuora Award at the Royal Society Te Apārangi Honours ceremony.
World-renowned asthma researcher Professor Richard Beasley has tonight been awarded the HRC Beaven Medal for the huge impact he has had on treating and managing asthma.
A team of New Zealand researchers have been recognised for their groundbreaking paper that could help reduce the number of older women presenting with fractures by up to half.
