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
- Brodie Fraser has just completed her PhD on takatāpui/LGBTIQ homelessness (Sponsored by MBIE funded Housing First Programme) Please Listen to Brodie on Radio NZ
- Please watch Professor Philippa Howden Chapman Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute: AHURI Covid-19 Presentation
- Our housing and health research programme He Kāinga Oranga is one of the big winners in the latest HRC grants, set to receive just under $5 million over five years to continue research to maximise the health and wellbeing gains from housing. Please Read for more details
Current Research
- He Kainga Oranga: Research to maximise the health and well-being gains from housing
- Housing First
- Mixed Tenure Research
- Rental Housing Warrant of Fitness
- Safe Housing Enabling Long Term Effective Recovery (SHELTER)
- Safety on Steps (SOS): a randomised controlled trial
- HHI Outcomes Evaluation Service Cross-Agency Consortia
- Rental housing
- The impact of COVID-19 restrictions on home energy use
Past Research
- Metered Out: Household Management of Electricity
- Lyall Bay Solar Energy Potential
- Cool? Exploring fuel poverty with youth
- Blitz Study
- Close-contact infectious diseases
- Postal Survey of Electricity Prepayment Meter Users
- 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
- Household Energy Affordability
- Housing & childhood respiratory illness (HOME)
- Housing, Heating and Health Study
- Housing, Insulation and Health Study
- Latent Tuberculosis Infection
- Mould in Homes
- Homelessness (Severe Housing Deprivation)
- Social Housing Outcomes Worth (SHOW)
- Residential Movement, Attachment and Health
- Rheumatic Fever and housing conditions
- Second hand smoke at home
- Warm Hearts
- 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
- Kimberley 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
- Kimberley 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
