Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith, a member of the HRC's Board and chair of the HRC Māori Health Committee, has been made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2013 New Year Honours.
Health research guidelines consistently rule out retrospective ethics approval. However, in the latest issue of Ethics Notes, Associate Professor Tim Dare argues that there are good reasons for a more flexible rule.
Dr Julia Ioane, an HRC Pacific health career development award recipient, shares her PhD findings comparing violent Pacific Island youth offenders with Māori and Palagi violent youth offenders.
University of Otago researcher Dr Rebecca Roberts has uncovered links between debilitating inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn's disease and other inflammatory diseases like arthritis.
Dr Cameron Grant's study shows that New Zealand's high rate of hospital admissions for whooping cough decreased in the 2000s - the first decade to record a drop since the 1960s.
Frances Graham's HRC-funded study shows that the predicted increase in heat-related extreme weather events due to climate change, in particular the nor'wester in Christchurch, could pose a risk to the delivery of hospital services.
Dr Siouxsie Wiles has picked up the 2012 New Zealand Association of Scientists (NZAS) Science Communicators award for communicating scientific issues of interest to the public.