Media resources for COVID-19 , Rauemi pāpāho mō KOWHEORI-19
Many Massey academics have research interests and expertise relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Professor David Hayman
Expertise: Zoonotic diseases (infectious diseases caused by bacteria, viruses and parasites that spread between animals – usually vertebrates – and humans).
Dr Joanna McKenzie
Expertise: Epidemiology, managing zoonotic diseases, national wildlife disease and vector-borne disease surveillance strategies.
Professor Nigel French
Expertise: Testing, food supply, rural health, veterinary, animals, implications for the food industry, epidemiology and modelling.
Professor Mick Roberts
Expertise: Modelling the epidemiology of infectious diseases. Uses innovative mathematics to work out how they might spread and to develop strategies for control. His work has included research on the spread of swine flu (Influenza A (H1N1) virus) in 2009, and on SARS in 2003.
Professor Martin Berka
Expertise: Macroeconomics, economic policy, regional development, international trade. Impact of COVID-19 on New Zealand and the global economy.
Dr Henry Chung
Expertise: Marketing, international marketing, immigrant enterprises, Asian cultures and the business community and perceptions of New Zealand among Asian consumers. Can discuss the impact of COVID-19 on business with China and its trading partners.
Professor David Tappin
Expertise: Director of a research group that studies workplace wellbeing, workplace bullying, including cyberbullying, changing work practices, including remote working.
Professor Jane Parker
Expertise: Employee relations and human resources.
Dr Julia Becker
Expertise: Natural hazard preparation, disaster prep, perceptions, preparedness, community resilience, emergency management and warnings, earthquakes, psychology.
Professor Christine Stephens
Expertise: Health psychology, elderly, aging population, social isolation of older people.
Dr Suze Wilson
Expertise: Leadership, crisis communication, leading through a crisis, workplace equity.
Dr Rosie Gibson
Expertise: Immune system, sleep patterns and difficulty in isolation.
Dr Ian de Terte
Expertise: Psychological consequences of occupational trauma for workers in high-risk occupations including first responders. Psychological resilience/coping strategies, psychological consequences of trauma/stress.
Associate Professor Andy Towers
Expertise: Elderly, older adults’ healthy ageing and alcohol consumption.
Dr Kirsty Ross
Expertise: Clinical Psychology, child behaviour in lockdown, parenting.