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Melody Smith (nee Oliver)

University of Auckland

New Zealand

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Epidemiology

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Global Health

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New Zealand Studies

40%

Covid-19

30%

Pandemic Preparedness

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Children's Studies

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Young People

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Recent Grants

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An ecological examination of factors related to active school travel in young children in Aotearoa New Zealand

Open Date: 2021-05-01

Close Date: 2022-04-30

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Health and equity impacts of Te Ara Mua Future Streets

Open Date: 2019-10-01

Close Date: 2024-06-01

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Health and equity impacts of Te Ara Mua Future Streets

Open Date: 2019-10-01

Close Date: 2024-06-01

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Novel approach to measuring the food and activity environments for child health

Open Date: 2019-10-01

Close Date: 2021-09-01

Grant: Close

Child-centred, strengths-based approaches to informing neighbourhood design for health

Open Date: 2019-03-01

Close Date: 2021-04-01

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Impacts of a community-wide infrastructural intervention on children's active school travel: A controlled before-after study

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2025

Access to Healthy Built and Natural Environments and Physical Activity and Screen Time in New Zealand Adolescents: A Geospatial Cross‐Sectional Study

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2025

Health Communication Needs of Southeast Asian Migrant Children in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Qualitative Study

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2025

Exploring the Transformative Potential of Kaupapa Māori Methodology in Nursing Research in Aotearoa New Zealand

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2025

Associated factors, barriers, and interventions to promote physical activity and reduce sedentary time in academics: a systematic review

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2025

Personal and work-related factors associated with nurse resilience: An updated systematic review using meta-analysis and narrative synthesis

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2025

Urban density and child health and wellbeing: A scoping review of the literature

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2025

Who Are We Excluding From Physical Activity Research? Examining the Potential for Exclusion Bias in Pedometer Data Processing

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2025

Socio-environmental factors associated with shifts in children's travel mode between 6 and 8 years

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2024

Travel to school patterns and perceptions of walking to school in New Zealand adolescents before versus during the COVID-19 pandemic

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2024

How street quality influences the walking experience: an inquiry into the perceptions of adults with diverse ages and disabilities

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2024

Evaluation of a multicomponent infrastructural and app-based intervention to increase children's active school travel: A multiple methods study in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand

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2024

Adolescents’ perceptions of food outlets in the school neighbourhood and their unhealthy snacking behaviour on the way to and from school

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2024

Adolescents' perceptions of food outlets in the school neighbourhood and their unhealthy snacking behaviour on the way to and from school.

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2024

Children's physical activity and active travel: a cross-sectional study of activity spaces, sociodemographic and neighborhood associations

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2023

Effects of Te Ara Mua – Future Streets suburban street retrofit on traffic speed and volume: Controlled before-after study

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2023

Creative and visual communication of health research: development of a graphic novel to share children’s neighbourhood perspectives of COVID-19 lockdowns in Aotearoa New Zealand

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2023

Children’s perceptions of their neighbourhoods during COVID-19 lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand

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2023

Diverse approaches to conceptualising positive ageing: A scoping review

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2023

Junk food, sugary drinks and XL portion sizes: advertising on convenience stores near primary schools in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand

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2023

More-Than-Human: A Cross-Sectional Study Exploring Children’s Perceptions of Health and Health-Promoting Neighbourhoods in Aotearoa New Zealand

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2022

Combining action research and grounded theory in health research: A structured narrative review

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2022

The relationship between children’s third-place play, parental neighbourhood perceptions, and children’s physical activity and sedentary behaviour

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2022

Covid-19 in New Zealand and the Pacific: implications for children and families

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2022

Collaborators22

Susan Morton

University of Sydney

AUSTRALIA

Susan Sandretto

University of Otago

NEW ZEALAND

Ritin Fernandez

AUSTRALIA

Simon Kingham

Professor

University of Canterbury

NEW ZEALAND

Alistair Woodward

University of Auckland

NEW ZEALAND

V. Egli

NEW ZEALAND

Kirsten Coppell

Research Associate Professor; Public Health Physician

University of Otago

NEW ZEALAND

John C. Spence

Professor

University of Alberta

CANADA

Jose Romeo

Massey University - Manawatu Campus

NEW ZEALAND

Tiffany Williams

Professional Casual Staff

University of Auckland

NEW ZEALAND

Erica Hinckson

Associate Dean Postgraduate

Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

NEW ZEALAND

Elizelle Juanee Cilliers

Head of School

University of Technology, Sydney

AUSTRALIA

Anecita Gigi Lim

Associate Professor

University of Auckland

NEW ZEALAND

James Hosking

University of Auckland

NEW ZEALAND

Kamyar Hasanzadeh

University of Helsinki

FINLAND

Bronwyn Hemsley

Professor of Speech Pathology

University of Sydney

AUSTRALIA

Sandra Mandic

Adjunct Professor

University of Auckland

NEW ZEALAND

Janine Wiles

University of Auckland

NEW ZEALAND

Terryann C. Clark

University of Auckland

NEW ZEALAND

Michelle Honey

Senior Lecturer

University of Auckland

NEW ZEALAND

Hayley McGlashan

Senior Lecturer

University of Auckland

NEW ZEALAND

Suzanne Mavoa

Assoc. Professor/Principal Research Fellow

Murdoch Childrens Research Institute

AUSTRALIA

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