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Louise Signal
Academic background
Alma materRangitikei College, University of Toronto, Massey University, University of Waikato
Theses
  • An outcome evaluation of the Waikato Technical Institute's marae-based young persons' training programme (1983)
  • The politics of the Ontario Premier's Council on Health Strategy: a case study in the new public health (1994)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Otago

Louise Nadine Signal is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in researching public health policy and promotion, inequities in healthcare, and environmental determinants of health.

Academic career

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Signal has a Bachelor of Arts from Massey University, and a Master of Social Science from the University of Waikato, which she completed in 1983.[1][2] Her master's thesis was on the evaluation of a marae-based training programme for young people.[3] Signal then completed a PhD titled The politics of the Ontario Premier's Council on Health Strategy: a case study in the new public health. at the University of Toronto in 1994.[4] Signal then joined the faculty of the University of Otago, rising to full professor in 2018.[5] As of 2024, she is the Director of the Health Promotion and Policy Research Unit at the University of Otago, Wellington, and also Head of the Department of Public Health.[1]

Signal's public health research focuses on environmental determinants of health, health promotion and policy, and health inequities, especially in low-income communities.[2][5] She has investigated inequities in cancer treatment for Māori, exposure of children to harmful advertising, obesity prevention, and led a project in New Zealand and Tonga using automated cameras to record children's lives.[6][5][7] Alongside colleagues Janet Hoek, Richard Egan and Christina McKerchar, Signal is Co-Director of the Te Rōpū Rangahau ō Te Kāhui Matepukupuku: Cancer Society Research Collaboration, a five-year research initiative aiming to reduce both the incidence of cancer and its impact, and also to address systemic inequities.[1][8]

Selected works

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Book

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  • Louise Signal and Mihi Ratima (eds). Promoting Health in Aotearoa New Zealand. Otago University Press (2015) ISBN 9781877578823

Journal articles

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Otago, University of (3 August 2023). "Profile". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  2. ^ a b University of Otago, Wellington (13 April 2023). "Professor Louise Signal, Department of Public Health". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  3. ^ Signal, Louise Nadine (1983). An outcome evaluation of the Waikato Technical Institute's marae-based young persons' training programme (Master's thesis).
  4. ^ Signal, Louise Nadine (1994). The politics of the Ontario Premier's Council on Health Strategy: a case study in the new public health (PhD thesis). University of Toronto. ISBN 9780315926721.
  5. ^ a b c Otago, Study Public Health at (15 December 2017). "University of Otago announces academic promotions". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  6. ^ ZB, Newstalk (6 March 2024). "Otago Uni Professor: Children can't escape harmful advertising". ZB. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  7. ^ Husband, Dale (24 October 2023). "Professor Louise Signal | Director of the Health Promotion and Policy Research Unit at the University of Otago". Waatea News: Māori Radio Station. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  8. ^ "Cancer Society Research Collaboration with University of Otago". Cancer Society NZ. 12 August 2021. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
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