University of Otago
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The University of Otago, founded in 1869, provides a research-led learning environment that is second to none, with a richly deserved reputation for excellence.
New Zealand
Joined January 2009
Opinion: NZ Defence costs the government $16.4m a day – that money could be better spent elsewhere, such as education, health care inequity, and the climate crisis. https://t.co/Jedgq2b1T8
newsroom.co.nz
Opinion from Otago University: Defence and its consequences cost us $16.4m a day – money that could be better spent elsewhere, writes Marie Russell
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Opinion: Many NZ cancer patients will die waiting on National's failed election promise to fund 13 new drugs they said they'd do so in their first Budget. https://t.co/yJpeGwN4Zf
newsroom.co.nz
Opinion from the University of Otago: Could National have delivered their pledge to fund 13 new cancer drugs without undermining Pharmac? What’s the truth behind the fiscal cliff?
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OPINION: Moving away from university-based teacher education has the potential to undermine the profession by disconnecting teachers from education research. https://t.co/FV1uZ3wDJi
theconversation.com
An ‘apprenticeship’ system would undermine teaching’s role as a profession, and separate trainees from the evolving research and knowledge that university-based training provides.
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Opinion: Negative political language can undermine trust in political institutions and leaders, and can lead people to become more cynical and distrustful of the political system: https://t.co/zhiTeOi6Gm
newsroom.co.nz
Opinion: Negative political language can undermine trust in political institutions and leaders, and can lead people to become more cynical and distrustful of the political system, writes Michael...
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OPINION: Inflation is a key issue for Finance Minister Nicola Willis to address in this week’s Budget. Dr Murat Ungor of Otago's Department of Economics on inflation and the cost of living: https://t.co/esHMS6Nx8P
odt.co.nz
Inflation is a key issue for Finance Minister Nicola Willis to address in this week’s Budget, Murat Ungor writes. The cost of living is still...
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Why does our small, remote country have such a costly defence force? Is this investment rendering it fit for purpose – and in 2024, what is that purpose? Otago's Marie Russell on defence spending: https://t.co/gOkZkJ3w6d
newsroom.co.nz
Opinion from the University of Otago: Why does our small, remote country have such a costly defence force? Marie Russell argues we don't need such expensive equipment, or to be trained and armed to...
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Want to hear more? Please join us for a launch of a new book examining the foreign policy of Jacinda Ardern's New Zealand Government:
otago.ac.nz
Join us for the launch of a book that examines the foreign policy of Jacinda Ardern's New Zealand Government between 2020 and early 2023 when the COVID-19 pandemic intersected with an evolving and...
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OPINION: The years of former PM Jacinda Ardern’s global popularity presented an opportunity for NZ to influence the world on some of the most pressing & enduring, global challenges. Has that chance been squandered? Peter Grace and Robert Patman weigh in: https://t.co/J6dYmnjbyk
newsroom.co.nz
Opinion from the University of Otago: The years of former PM Jacinda Ardern’s global popularity presented an opportunity for NZ to influence the world on some of the most pressing, and enduring,...
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Opinion: Stronger vape retailer monitoring and enforcement is needed in NZ to reduce underage vaping. Identifying supply routes such as older friends, siblings and dodgy retailers offer important insights into new policy measures to reduce youth access. https://t.co/yEhV1hlpJA
theconversation.com
One in five underage adolescents vape occasionally, and nearly 28% of Māori youth vape regularly. Most get their product by sharing and asking older friends to buy vapes for them.
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OPINION: New Zealand’s decision to no longer offer free influenza vaccines for all children under 12 will likely wipe out recent gains in uptake. https://t.co/TaFqY1i7rE
theconversation.com
Influenza accounts for more than half of all potentially vaccine-preventable hospitalisations of children under 14. But those living in poverty are three times more likely to require hospital care.
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A new Otago-led study has uncovered the origins of a mysterious lineage of mergansers - riverine and coastal fish-eating ducks predominantly found in the Northern Hemisphere - in Aotearoa: https://t.co/t0ZEKqJgW1
otago.ac.nz
A new University of Otago-led study has uncovered the origins of a mysterious lineage of mergansers in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Almost one in five emergency department presentations are by mental health clients, and more needs to be done to improve services, a University of Otago, Wellington, study has found. https://t.co/bFw9fWXjBz
otago.ac.nz
Almost one in five emergency department presentations are by mental health clients, and more needs to be done to improve services, a University of Otago, Wellington, study has found.
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Opinion: Cancer survival rates have significantly improved during the past few decades, but survivorship not only entails surviving the disease, it also involves surviving the health system: https://t.co/zPse1sDiqq
theconversation.com
New research highlights common threads in cancer survivors’ stories, including the effort it takes to navigate the health system, even for a diagnosis, and the struggle to fund unsubsidised treatme...
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While most people were looking up at the night sky and enjoying the aurora display, Otago physicists were working to implement a system they designed to protect NZ's power grid from overloading and collapsing due to the solar storm's geomagnetic effects: https://t.co/dYByGeeFqf
otago.ac.nz
Modelling and advice from University of Otago scientists helped to protect New Zealand’s power grid during the solar storm at the weekend.
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The highly infectious H5N1 avian virus has now spread globally to all continents except Oceania. Otago's Professor Jemma Geoghegan explains what this means for Aotearoa New Zealand, its wildlife and potential human transmission: https://t.co/3C30cTx7kl
newsroom.co.nz
From the University of Otago: The H5N1 virus has now spread to all continents except Oceania and was recently confirmed in a US dairy worker who contracted it from cows. Professor Geoghegan explains...
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OPINION: ADHD is under-diagnosed and under-treated in Aotearoa NZ, perpetuated by equity issues and barriers such as restricted accessibility in the public sector and expensive assessment costs in the private sector. https://t.co/mWEJph5Hmf
theconversation.com
New research shows the massive gap between those with ADHD and the number of people who are prescribed the medicine that can help.
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Ngā mihi nui to Otago's HDGC Research Group for receiving the prestigious Prime Minister’s Science Prize at parliament tonight! The group discovered the gene that causes inherited stomach cancer, significantly improving treatment of the disease globally. https://t.co/9q87y8OJAA
otago.ac.nz
The University of Otago’s HDGC Research Group has received the Te Pūiaki Putaiao Matua a Te Pirimia Prime Minister’s Science Prize for 2023.
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Aotearoa’s health system must improve cultural integration practices for international doctors or risk losing them, a University of Otago study argues. https://t.co/oq9EquWjaL
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MDMA consumers in Aotearoa carry out harm reduction practices relatively frequently, with the most common reason for not using drug-checking services being the lack of availability in people's local area or at relevant events, according to new Otago study: https://t.co/8m2teDy7w4
otago.ac.nz
University of Otago researchers are calling for more drug-checking services to be available in Aotearoa.
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From online abuse to threats of sexual violence – harassment of New Zealand’s parliamentarians is on the rise, and becoming increasingly disturbing, Otago research shows: https://t.co/BMnpLuAnVV
otago.ac.nz
From online abuse to threats of sexual violence – harassment of New Zealand’s parliamentarians is on the rise, and becoming increasingly disturbing, University of Otago research shows.
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