Updates
TRANSFORM members presenting at the Nutrition Society of New Zealand conference
TRANSFORM Members will be heading to Dunedin to present at the 2025 Nutrition Society of New Zealand (NSNZ) Conference on the 26th to 28th November. Presentations include: Associate Professor Kathryn Bradbury on Trends in population food and macronutrient availability...
Join TRANSFORM member Professor Cliona Ni Mhurchu for a webinar on Junk Food vs Public Health
Professor Cliona Ni Mhurch will be joining Adam Bradshaw, Sir Professor Ashley Bloomfield, Dave Letele and Murray Bruges for a webinar on the 17th November discussing Junk Food vs Public Health - Solutions for a Healtheir New Zealand. Click here for more details and...
Health Technology Innovation: Past, Present & Future Collaborations
Join us for an afternoon of insight, inspiration, and connection across Auckland's health technology researchers, clinicians, and innovators. You’ll hear firsthand from researchers and clinicians who have transformed their ideas into successful MedTech start-ups, and...
Testing and adapting dietary habits and food security questions for a national nutrition survey using cognitive interviews and expert consultation
TRANSFORM members Dr Berit Follong and Professor Cliona Ni Mhurchu have published a paper on their work in developing the New Zealand National Nutrition Survey. The publication looks at how the dietary habits and food security questions were cognitively tested and...
TRANSFORM Member wins excellent abstract award at HealthEx
TRANSFORM member Dinithi Uthumange won the FMHS excellent abstract award at HealthEx. The abstract title: Knowledge, attitudes and behaviours towards reducing meat consumption among meat-eaters: A systematic review.
Community health, patient safety under increasing threat
As nurses witness failures of care related to unsafe staffing levels, “they experience significant distress and many leave, adding turnover costs to the cost of risks associated with poor staffing levels”, the authors say. Community health, patient safety under...
AI in Health Research Network Newsletter
It was great to receive positive feedback following our first newsletter - there is clearly an appetite for content and opportunities to connect. Our small team is working hard to meet this demand and deliver more events, networking opportunities, and tools to support...
Celebrating Research Excellence in AI and Healthcare
We’re proud to announce that Professor Robyn Whittaker and Associate Professor Rosie Dobson, members of TRANSFORM, are involved in three Health Research Council (HRC) grants focussed on artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, in collaboration with Te Whatu Ora....