He Kainga Oranga, the Housing and Health Research Programme, examines and clarifies the links between Housing and Health. Although the association between poor housing and ill health is known, the links that make up the causal chain have until recently been poorly understood.
Conducting our own studies and examining existing evidence enables us to identify and evaluate housing-related interventions to improve individual, family and community health. Our multi-disciplinary team has expertise in both qualitative and quantative disciplines.
We are based in the University of Otago, Wellington. We are funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand and Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
Recent News
- Professor Philippa Howden- Chapman has been appointed as one of the six board members of Kāinga Ora. Please Read
Lead researcher at the Housing and Health Research Programme, Kim Nathan, a PhD student at the University of Otago, Wellington, says two- thirds (69 per cent) of the more than 300,000 children studied had moved house at least once by the time they were four years old. For the details and the publication Please read
- Renting isn’t about ‘surviving’ or ‘enduring’ – it’s about having a warm, dry home
Current Research
- Cool? Exploring fuel poverty with youth
- Safety on Steps (SOS): a randomised controlled trial
- Rental Housing Warrant of Fitness
- Blitz Study
- Housing First
- Safe Housing Enabling Long Term Effective Recovery (SHELTER)
- Household Energy Affordability
- Rental housing
- Homelessness (Severe Housing Deprivation)
- Warm Hearts
Past Research
- Lyall Bay Solar Energy Potential
- Close-contact infectious diseases
- Evaluation of Warm Up New Zealand: Heat Smart
- Healthy Housing Index
- Housing and (Dis)ability Study
- Home Injury Prevention Intervention (HIPI)
- Housing and Health of Medical Students
- Housing and Meningococcal Disease
- Housing & childhood respiratory illness (HOME)
- Housing, Heating and Health Study
- Housing, Insulation and Health Study
- Latent Tuberculosis Infection
- Mould in Homes
- Social Housing Outcomes Worth (SHOW)
- Residential Movement, Attachment and Health
- Rheumatic Fever and housing conditions
- Second hand smoke at home
- Warm Homes for Elder New Zealanders (WHEZ)
- Tokelau Extended Family Housing Study
Student Research
- Fraser – 2019 – LGBTIQ+ Homelessness
- Chisholm – 2016 – action to improve rental housing
- Grant – 2013 – private rental housing market
- O’Sullivan – 2013 – fuel poverty and prepayment
- Preval – 2015 – evaluating large interventions
- Tiatia – 2014 – family centred healing
- Aspinall – 2013 – boarding houses
- Pierse – 2011- causality in community trials
- Severinsen – 2010 – camping ground residence
- Telfar-Barnard – 2010 – winter hospitalisation
- Bierre – 2008 – beliefs on private rental housing
- Free – 2008 – home heating and school absence
- Gillespie-Bennett – 2008 – home heating and NO2
- O’Sullivan – 2008 – warm homes pilot
- Preval – 2008 – home heating cost benefit
- Amore- 2007- homelessness and policy
- Vujcich – 2007- home heating choices
- Widmer – 2006 – crowding in the 1990s
- Jera- 2005- wellbeing and subsidised housing
