CPNP Seminar - Ending the Pacific NCD Crisis: Insights from Tonga and New Zealand
Professor Louise Signal, University of Otago
Research
Wednesday, 22 May 2019, 1pm to 2pm
L1 Ax Meeting room, BDI, Old Road Campus, OX3 7LF
Professor Signal will explore the challenge of ending the Pacific NCD crisis with compelling new data from Tonga and New Zealand (NZ). The obesogenic world of children will be revealed using data from cameras worn by a random sample of 36 Tongan and 168 NZ children. These findings set the scene for a discussion about global solutions to the crisis including taxation, trade policy and financing of the SDGs.
Professor Louise Signal is a Director of the Health Promotion and Policy Research Unit at the University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand (NZ). She is a social scientist who has worked in public health for over 30 years. She is the out-going Regional Director of the South West Pacific Region of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE). Louise’s research focuses on identifying and addressing the determinants of health and health inequities. Her key areas of interest include obesity prevention, addressing harm from alcohol and gambling and tackling inequities in cancer treatment. Louise is the principal investigator of an innovative research project that studies the world children live in, Kids’Cam. It uses automated cameras to record children’s worlds in NZ. Currently, there are 17 projects underway or completed. Louise is currently leading similar research in Tonga in collaboration with Dr Viliami Puloka and the Tongan Government.
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