14 March 2019

NIHI is celebrating 30 years of undertaking and managing clinical trials and service delivery.

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2 April 2019

In this editorial, we comment on a recent paper by Sun and colleagues which used Mendelian Randomisation to try to estimate the causal relationship between BMI and mortality.

16 April 2019

"Once a lot of Māori males hit 30, sport drops off and physical activity drops off and our rates of obesity increase really quickly," says Dr Ihirangi Heke (Waikato-Tainui).

18 April 2019

Each bottle of beer you drink and steak you eat could be increasing your risk of bowel cancer, new research has found. 

Dr Kathryn Bradbury, from NIHI and University of Auckland, found people who consumed red meat even within recommended daily guidelines had a 20 per cent higher chance of developing bowel cancer than those who ate one-third as much. 

23 April 2019

Associate Professor Robyn Whittaker and Dr Rosie Dobson along with colleague Dr Jude McCool (University of Auckland) recently visited the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

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13 May 2019

Director, Chris Bullen, recently represented NIHI at University of Auckland's event Celebrating Research Excellence.

12 October 2018

Researchers at the National Institute for Health Innovation are developing a chatbot to answer patients questions after surgery.

The two-year Engagebot project is funded by a Health Research Council Explorer Grant, which support transformative research ideas.

NIHI ehealth and mhealth co-lead Gayl Humphrey says the aim is to determine if creating a chatbot in this area is possible, useful and acceptable to patients.

4 December 2018

NIHI’s work was showcased at the recent Health Informatics New Zealand (HINZ) conference in Wellington. NIHI’s booth in the exhibition hall displayed a range of our mHealth and health informatics projects being carried out. There was a lot of interest by conference delegates with existing collaborations strengthened and new contacts and relationships formed.

A New Zealand-led scientific review has found people with a diet high in fibre - specifically whole grains - have lower rates of a range of chronic diet-related diseases. Dr Kathryn Bradbury from NIHI said there was good evidence that higher intakes of whole grains were associated with a lower risk of bowel cancer and lower body weight.

Read more here.

18 February 2019

At the recent International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII) in Auckland, one of our chatbot developers, Dr Jamal Zolhavarieh presented our project EngageBot.

Are you a fan of professional rugby? Want to get fit? You may be eligible to take part in a free healthy lifestyle programme being run through the Blues, the Highlanders and the Crusaders.

4 April 2019

Smoking among young teen students appears close to being stubbed out, a new survey suggests.

18 April 2019

“They didn’t treat us as unfit people. They treated us as equals. They saw us as a group of guys prepared to come, listen and change.”

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23 April 2019

Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is a medicine that is available as skin patches, chewing gum, nasal and oral sprays, inhalers, lozenges and tablets that deliver nicotine to the brain.

29 April 2019

On an April morning in Iqaluit, Ayesha Eyegetok sits down to test-drive a new video game. The scenery of snow and rock resembles the Nunavut landscape. A stone centrepiece fountain is decorated with arctic animals, including a narwhal. The characters are Inuit men and women, standing in traditional, fur-lined parkas, waiting for the player to begin a quest that teaches lessons in mindfulness and coping strategies.

15 May 2019

Every year, on 31 May, is an opportunity to highlight World Smokefree Day.

16 November 2018

“The 2017 Global Burden of Disease study released this week indicates that our focus at NIHI on discovering innovative interventions to tackle the non-communicable disease and their risk factors is right on the mark,”  says NIHI Director, Professor Chris Bullen.

It’s been a stand out year for NIHI’s emerging researchers according to NIHI Director Professor Chris Bullen.

Are you a fan of rugby? Want to get fit? You may be eligible to take part in a free healthy lifestyle programme being run through the Blues and the Highlanders.

We are looking for male rugby fans who are interested in improving their health and fitness to take part in RUFIT-NZ, a 12-week healthy lifestyle programme delivered through professional rugby clubs. In order to participate, you will need to be 30-65 years old and be overweight.

21 February 2019

NIHI’s work was showcased at the recent ISRII (International Society for Research on Internet Interventions) 10th Scientific Meeting. The international conference brought together experts from around the world in digital health research, including researchers, developers, clinicians, policy and practice leaders, engineers and computer scientists from across the public and private sectors. Presentations included:

13 May 2019 | UPDATE

This study has now closed recruitment. You can still visit our webpage to find out more but no further downloads of the app will be possible. Thank you to all of those who are participating.

2 April 2019

"Wanting the best for our children is what I, and all parents and whānau, want," says Gayl Humphrey, the lead investigator in our See How They Grow study.

Recently, some of our researchers worked closely with the team at Hāpai Te Hauora to look at how Auckland could work to reach the government’s goal of Smokefree 2025.

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23 April 2019

Associate Professor Robyn Whittaker and Dr Rosie Dobson, along with colleagues Dr Judith McCool (University of Auckland), Dr Chris Paton (University of Oxford) and Dr Smisha Agarwal (Johns Hopkins), ran a satellite session at the recent CUGH conference in Chicago.

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13 May 2019

There is no shortage of research into the health benefits of coffee.

28 November 2018

New Zealand is in the grip of a meningitis outbreak. This week the government announced an urgent vaccination campaign for the hardest hit communities in Northland.

Vaccines are in short supply internationally, as many other countries struggle to deal with their own outbreaks.

Professor Cliona Ni Mhurchu joined a panel hosted by Kim Hill to discuss the practical and social dilemmas associated with tackling the diet-related disease in New Zealand. Listen in here.

24 January 2019

Our team were recently involved in Hack Aotearoa 2019 - Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, a conference where health professionals, data scientists and innovators from across Aotearoa, were immersed in workshops and discussion on the concepts of Artificial Intelligence, including machine learning, natural language processing and image recognition.