TONY BLAKELY – Public Health Expert, University of Otago, New Zealand

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About TONY BLAKELY

I am an epidemiologist and public health researcher. My research activities span mortality studies, health inequalities, healthy eating, tobacco and cancer control. I teach advanced epidemiology methods. I currently direct the Burden of Disease Epidemiology, Equity and Cost effectiveness programme (BODE3) where we are modelling the health impact, cost and cost effectiveness of preventive and cancer control interventions.

A major new study on Kiwi health –can it inform decision-making?

Thursday, August 8th, 2013 | TONY BLAKELY | No Comments

(This story has also been covered by Radio NZ (3’12”) and TVNZ (4’09”).)

Professor Tony Blakely and Associate Professor Nick Wilson

The Ministry of Health has just released a major new burden of disease study for 2006, a culmination of a large epidemiological stocktake for New Zealand.

The study highlights changes in New Zealand, e.g. diet is emerging as the major modifiable risk factor with respect to disease burden. It also raises questions as to how useful a burden of disease study is for prioritisation of public health activity. We address these two issues in turn in this blog. Continue reading →

What the fizz! A week of dealing to sugary drinks in NY and NZ

Friday, August 2nd, 2013 | TONY BLAKELY | 2 Comments

A curious week in the world of soft drinks.

The surprising darling of public health action on soft drinks, New York, suffered a set-back when the New York state Supreme Court Appellate Division said that Bloomberg’s health board had gone too far in stopping sales of non-diet soda and other sugar-laden beverages in containers bigger 470mL. Continue reading →

Why don’t we live as long and healthily as we could: social values and decision making

Friday, July 12th, 2013 | TONY BLAKELY | No Comments

Welcome to this Public Health Expert Blog. This blog is going to consider what we could do, and what we probably should not do, to improve public health. We will traverse the range from birth to end of life care and death, efficiency versus equity, learning from our history to future gazing, opportunity costs, climate change and aging populations, genetics to social determinants, and much more. Myself and academic colleagues will blog about issues of the day, and issues that should be issues of the day. We undertake to make this blog informative, relevant, and as evidence-based as possible. Continue reading →

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