{"id":946,"date":"2018-04-20T01:25:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T01:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confer.nz\/epicoh2019\/?page_id=946"},"modified":"2018-10-28T18:29:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T18:29:50","slug":"organising-committee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/epicoh2019\/organising-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Organising Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE<\/h1>\n

Professor Jeroen Douwes
\nDr. Andrea \u2019t Mannetje
\nDr David McLean
\nDr Amanda Eng
\nProfessor Chris Cunningham
\nProfessor Philippa Gander
\nDr Hayley Denison
\nDr Sunia Foliaki
\nDr Marine Corbin
\nProfessor Jeroen Douwes<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/h3>\n

Professor Jeroen Douwes<\/h3>\n

Director<\/em>
\nCentre for Public Health Research (CPHR), Massey\u00a0University<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Jeroen Douwes is the Director of the Centre\u00a0for Public Health Research (CPHR), Massey University,\u00a0Wellington, and an epidemiologist recognised for\u00a0his work on asthma and indoor and occupational\u00a0health. He is also the Director of a $5.6M New Zealand\u00a0Health Research Council-funded Programme Grant\u00a0on Interventions to Reduce Occupational Disease\u00a0which incorporates exposure assessment and the\u00a0development and testing of interventions in solvent,\u00a0silica and pesticide exposed workers.<\/p>\n

Dr. Andrea \u2019t Mannetje<\/p>\n

\"\"Dr. Andrea \u2019t Mannetje<\/h3>\n

Associate Professor<\/em>
\nCPHR, Massey University<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrea \u2019t Mannetje is an Associate Professor at CPHR, Massey University. She is an epidemiologist particularly interested in the occupational risk factors for cancer, and worked at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, before coming to New Zealand in 2003.<\/p>\n

Dr David McLean<\/p>\n

\"\"Dr David McLean<\/h3>\n

Senior Research Fellow<\/em>
\nCPHR, Massey University<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr David McLean is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Health Research at Massey University, with expertise in occupational exposure assessment and epidemiology. He is a member of the Occupational Health Advisory Group to the Board of WorkSafe New Zealand and also the National Secretary of the International Commission on Occupational Health.<\/p>\n

Dr Amanda Eng<\/p>\n

\"\"Dr Amanda Eng<\/h3>\n

Research Officer<\/em>
\nCPHR, Massey University<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Amanda Eng is a Research Officer at CPHR with an interest in occupational and environmental health and cancer epidemiology. Her doctoral thesis was based on the first survey of occupational exposures and health effects in the New Zealand population, and her current research is on occupational health and national meta-data, including a study examining occupational risk factors for cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n

Professor Chris Cunningham<\/p>\n

\"\"Professor Chris Cunningham<\/h3>\n

Director of the M\u0101ori Health Research Programme (Te P\u016bmanawa Hauora)<\/em>
\nResearch Centre for M\u0101ori Health and Development (RCMHD), Massey University Professor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chris Cunningham is Director of the M\u0101ori Health Research Programme (Te P\u016bmanawa Hauora) within the Research Centre for M\u0101ori Health and Development (RCMHD) at Massey University, and a co-investigator on the Interventions to Reduce Occupational Disease programme grant.<\/p>\n

Professor Philippa Gander<\/p>\n

\"\"Professor Philippa Gander<\/h3>\n

Director of the Sleep\/Wake Research Centre<\/em>
\nMoe Tika-Moe Pai, Massey University Professor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Philippa Gander is Director of the Sleep\/Wake Research Centre, Moe Tika-Moe Pai, Massey University. She is internationally recognised for work on the physiological factors underlying fatigue-related performance impairment and for implementation of innovative fatigue risk management approaches, and has a particular interest in advancing and applying scientific knowledge to develop new solutions to the health and safety challenges generated by current trends to restrict sleep and increase 24\/7 work.<\/p>\n

Dr Hayley Denison<\/p>\n

\"\"Dr Hayley Denison<\/h3>\n

Research Fellow
\n<\/em>CPHR, <\/strong>Massey University<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hayley Denison is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Health Research. She recently completed her PhD at Victoria University of Wellington, which explored STI testing behaviours. Prior to moving
\nto New Zealand, Hayley worked for the University of Southampton in the UK from 2007 to 2013 on a longitudinal birth cohort study. Hayley is experienced in both quantitative and qualitative research methods, and enjoys teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Her current work involves exploring occupational risk factors for cardiovascular disease using the Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI).<\/p>\n

Dr Sunia Foliaki<\/p>\n

\"\"Dr Sunia Foliaki<\/h3>\n

Public Health Physician<\/em>
\nCPHR, Massey University<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunia Foliaki is a public health physician by training. His research focus is among Pacific populations both in New Zealand and in the Pacific islands. His research covers a number of Pacific public health studies including the epidemiology of cancer and asthma. He is also working closely with Pacific islands countries on food security policies and programmes and conducts regional consultancies with Pacific islands ministries of health on non-communicable diseases in general, and specifically on the establishment of cancer registries in the Pacific. His research contributes to policy and the development of evidence based guidelines to improving health care for Pacific people in New Zealand.<\/p>\n

Dr Marine Corbin<\/p>\n

\"\"Dr Marine Corbin<\/h3>\n

Biostatistician<\/em>
\nCPHR, Massey University<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marine is a Biostatistician at the Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University. She has the equivalent of an MSc from the \u201cEcole Nationale de la Statistique et de l\u2019Analyse de l\u2019Information\u201d (France) and completed a PhD on the application of Bayesian methods to address multiple comparisons and misclassification bias in occupational case-control studies at Massey University in 2015. She has previously worked at the Cancer Epidemiology Unit of the University of Turin, Italy and she is currently involved in different occupational health projects at the Centre for Public Health Research including occupational risk factors for cardiovascular disease and respiratory symptoms in cleaners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE Professor Jeroen Douwes Dr. Andrea \u2019t Mannetje Dr David McLean Dr Amanda Eng Professor Chris Cunningham Professor Philippa Gander Dr Hayley Denison Dr Sunia Foliaki Dr Marine Corbin Professor Jeroen Douwes Professor Jeroen Douwes Director Centre for Public Health Research (CPHR), Massey\u00a0University Professor Jeroen Douwes is the Director of the Centre\u00a0for Public…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-946","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/epicoh2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/epicoh2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/epicoh2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/epicoh2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/epicoh2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/epicoh2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1252,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/epicoh2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/946\/revisions\/1252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/epicoh2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}