ASPIRE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Director of the Biostatistical Group for the Wellington
James is currently Director of the Biostatistical Group for the Wellington campus, where his role includes coordinating colleagues and collaborating with researchers across the campus and the broader community. As well as these roles, he teaches biostatistical and research methods in several formal courses at UOW (including co-convening the HASC417 Research Methods paper), as well as developing and running practical workshops on statistical methods for staff and students.
Jude joined the Department in November 2014 as a senior research fellow in the ASPIRE Aotearoa tobacco control research group, with a background in critical psychology, health promotion and applied research. She completed a PhD in 2019 exploring the drivers of long term trends in adolescent risk behaviour, in particular smoking, cannabis use, binge drinking and sexual behaviour. Her research focuses on the impact of the changing social context on youth trends, and the inter-relationships between smoking and other risk behaviours in young people. She is a member of the Adolescent Health Research Group, the team behind the Youth 2000 series, and is a long-term active member of the Public Health Association.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Head of School of Population Health
Associate Professor Judith is Head of School of Population Health and co-Director for Te Poutoko Ora a Kiwa l Centre for Pacific and Global Health. Areas of expertise include youth tobacco and e-cigarette marketing and promotions, tobacco industry interference and commercial determinants of health.
Previous work has focused on assessing risk perceptions among vulnerable populations, and the application social and digital media as a communication tool for social and behaviour change and health equity. Recent work has concentrated on the impact of global health institutions, including governance arrangements to support health equity, including contribution to debates around decolonising global health through alternative ways of supporting indigenous led research, scholarship, and workforce development.
Dr Marsh has worked as a Senior Research Fellow in the Social and Behavioural Research Unit since 2010. Her research is focused on providing evidence for policies to achieve New Zealand's Smokefree 2025 goal. Her particular field of interest is reducing the supply of tobacco, and in particular commercial retail availability. More recently her work has concentrated on the spatial location of tobacco retailers in New Zealand, using geospatial analysis to identify retail regulation policies to reduce availability, while considering the equity impacts.
Job Titles:
- Fellow of the Society for Research
- Professor
Richard trained initially as a public health doctor and has over 20 years experience in tobacco control practice and research. Richard is co-director of the ASPIRE Aotearoa Research Centre and Whakahā o te Pā Harakeke research programme and co-principal investigator of the Evidence for Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa Equitably (EASE) study (New Zealand arm of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Evaluation project).
His main research interests are in tobacco use epidemiology and tobacco control with a focus on smokefree policy research to inform the achievement of the Smokefree Aotearoa goal of ending significant tobacco use in Aotearoa/New Zealand for all peoples by 2025.
Richard is a Fellow of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco and a Deputy Editor of the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research. He serves on various expert advisory committees including for Hāpai Te Hauora the national tobacco control advocacy service.