AHRG Members
Back Row: Simon Denny, Peter Watson, Terry Fleming
Front Row: Sarah Fortune, Sue Grant, Terryann Clark, Sue Crengle, Shanthi Ameratunga, Jennifer Utter, Sally Merry, Elizabeth Robinson
Terryann Clark
Terryann Clark (Nga Puhi) is principal investigatorfor the Youth’12 national health and wellbeing survey. She is senior lecturerat the School of Nursing, University of Auckland and a nurse specialist at theCentre for Youth Health, Counties Manukau District Health Board. She has a PhDin Nursing and a Fellowship in Adolescent Health from the University ofMinnesota, a Masters in Public Health from the University of Auckland and didher nursing training at Manukau Institute of Technology. Her main researchinterests relate to youthhealth, population health, Māori and indigenous youth health issues,disability, mental health and sexual health.Terryann was a founding member of the Adolescent Health Research Group and waschair of the Adolescent Health Research Group from 2009-2011.
Simon Denny
Simon Denny is a Youth Health Physician working at the Centre for Youth Health and University of Auckland. He was the Principal Investigator of the Youth’07 survey which collected, analysed and disseminated accurate and comprehensive information on the health and wellbeing of New Zealand secondary school students. Youth ’07 followed on from the first Youth2000 survey in 2001 which was the first nationally representative health survey of students attending secondary schools in New Zealand.
Terry Fleming
Terry(Theresa) Fleming is a youth health social worker and a lecturer at theDepartment of Paediatrics: Child and Youth Health. She is currentlycompleting her PhD in new approaches to supporting youth mental health (www.sparx.org.nz) and isan investigator with the Adolescent Health Research Group.
Elizabeth Robinson
Elizabeth is a consultant biostatistician and has been amember of the Adolescent Health Research Group since 1997. Her expertiseis in the design and analysis of medical research .She has overallresponsibility for statistical aspects of the projects.
Jennifer Utter
Jennifer has a background in food and nutrition and is a lecturer in public health nutrition at the University of Auckland's School of Population Health. Jennifer has been a member of the Adolescent Health Research Group since 2004. Her main research interests are in adolescent eating behaviours, weight control, and obesity prevention.
Sue CrengleDr Crengle is from the Waitaha, Kati Mamoe and Kāi Tahu tribes. She obtained her medical, MPH, and PhD degrees from the University of Auckland. She holds specialty qualifications in general practice and public health medicine. Sue was a recipient of a Harkness Fellowship in Health Policy 1999-2000, working at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA. On her return she worked as a Senior Advisor in the Ministry of Health for 12 months. She is currently a Senior Lecturer and Director of Tōmaiora Māori Health Research Centre, Te Kupenga Hauora Māori, FHMS, University of Auckland.
Pat Bullen
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Ben Dyson
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Janie Sheridan
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Fiona Rossen
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Tasileta Teevale
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Amritha Sobrun-Maharaj
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Sarah Fortune
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