Philippa Howden-Chapman

MA (Hons 1), PhD, Dip Teaching, Dip Clin Psych, QSO CNZM
Sesquicentennial Distinguished Professor, University of Otago, Wellington
Philippa Howden-Chapman
  • Co-director of He Kāinga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme
  • Director of New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities
  • Professor of Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington
  • Director of Board of Kāinga Ora - homes and communities
  • Chair of the ISC Scientific Committee for Health & Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment: a systems approach

    Philippa Howden-Chapman is a professor of public health at the University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand, where she teaches public policy. She is the director of He Kāinga Oranga/ Housing and Health Research Programme and the New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities. She has conducted a number of randomised community housing trials in partnership with local communities, which have had a major influence on housing, health and energy policy. She has a strong interest in reducing inequalities in the determinants of health and has published widely in this area, receiving a number of awards for her work. In 2014, Philippa and her research team were awarded the Prime Minister’s Science Prize. She was the first woman and the first social scientist to win the prize. She is currently the chair of the WHO Housing and Health Guideline Development Group and was a member of the Children’s Commissioner’s Expert Advisory Group on Solutions to Child Poverty. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 

Key publications

  1. Yu, C. Buchanan, M. Ora, E. T. Pehi, T. Leigh, L. Howden-Chapman, P. Pierse, N. Paul, J.
    2025
    The Importance of Housing Assistance on Reducing Youth Offending in New Zealand
    Urban Policy and Research
    1-16
  2. Yu, C. Buchanan, M. Jenkins, M. Pehi, T. Aspinall, C. Pierse, N. Fraser, B. Howden-Chapman, P
    2025
    People receiving the emergency housing special needs grant in Aotearoa New Zealand
    Taylor & Francis online
    International Journal of Housing Policy 1-24
  3. Fasoro, A. Yu, C. Bierema, S. Pehi, T. Fraser, B. Howden-Chapman, P. Pierse, N.
    2024
    The impact of transitions from emergency housing to public housing in Aotearoa New Zealand
    Discover Public Health
    Volume 21, article number 189,
  4. Ombler J Jiang T Fraser B Nelson J McMinn C Hawkes K Atatoa-Carr P Pehi T Aspinall C Bierre S Schick K Howden-Chapman P Pierse N
    2024
    Five-Year Post-Housing Outcomes for a Housing First Cohort in Aotearoa, New Zealand
    International Journal on Homelessness 2024; 4(1).

    Abstract

  5. Fraser B Aspinall C Chisholm E Ombler J Bierre S Telfar-Barnard L Johnson E Howden-Chapman P
    2024
    A Snapshot of a Fragmented Landscape: Homelessness Law and Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand
    Chris Bevan (ed). Global Perspectives on Homelessness Law & Policy, Routledge, 2024
    10.4324/9781003274056-35
  6. Howden-Chapman P Crane J Keall M Pierse N Baker MG Cunningham C Amore K Aspinall C Bennett J Bierre S Boulic M Chapman R Chisholm E Davies C Fougere G Fraser B
    2023
    He Kāinga Oranga: reflections on 25 years of measuring the improved health, wellbeing and sustainability of healthier housing
    Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
    Volume 54, 2024
  7. Pierse N Ombler J Chun S Fraser B White M Aspinall C McMinn C Howden-Chapman P Nelson J Hawkes K Jiang T Atatoa-Carr P
    2022
    Two-Year Post-Housing Outcomes for a Housing First Cohort in Aotearoa New Zealand.
    European Journal of Homelessness
  8. Keall, M.
    Tupara, H.
    Pierse, N.
    Wilkie, M.
    Baker, M.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Cunningham, C.
    (2021).
    Home modifications to prevent home fall injuries in houses with Māori occupants (MHIPI): a randomised controlled trial.
    Lancet Public Health,
    6(9), e631-e640.
  9. Viggers, H.
    Keall, M.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2021).
    Towards dwelling energy certification for New Zealand: Normalisation issues.
    Kōtuitui,
    Online.
  10. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Fyfe, C.
    Keall, M.
    Riggs, L.
    Pierse, N.
    (2021).
    The effects of housing on health and well-being in Aotearoa New Zealand [ Ngā pānga o ngā whare noho ki te hauora me te toiora i Aotearoa].
    New Zealand Population Review,
    47, 16-32.
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    HowdenChapman_etal_Housing_Health_Wellbeing.pdf
  11. Chisholm, E.
    Bierre, S.
    Davies, C.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2021).
    'That house was a home': Qualitative evidence from New Zealand on the connections between rental housing eviction and poor health outcomes.
    Health Promotion Journal of Australia,
    Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/hpja.526
  12. Viggers, H.
    Amore, K.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2021)
    Housing that lacks basic amenities in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2018: A supplement to the 2018 Census estimate of severe housing deprivation.
    Commissioned by Te Tūāpapa Kura Kāinga/Ministry of Housing and Urban Development

     

    Download document
    Housing-that-Lacks-Basic-Amenities-in-Aotearoa-New-Zealand-2018.pdf
  13. Riggs, L.
    Keall, M.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Baker, M.
    (2021).
    Environmental burden of disease from unsafe and substandard housing, New Zealand, 2010-2017.
    Bulletin of the World Health Organization,
    99, 259-270.
  14. Baum, F. Freeman, T. Musolino, C. Abramovitz, M. De Ceukelaire, W. Flavel, J.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Villar, E.
    (2021).
    Explaining covid-19 performance: What factors might predict national responses?
    BMJ,
    372(n91).
  15. Robertson, O.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Baker, M.
    Atatoa Carr, P.
    Pierse, N.
    (2021).
    Residential mobility and changes in deprivation levels for 0-4 year olds in New Zealand.
    International Journal of Population Data Science,
    5(5).
  16. Fyfe, C.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Douwes, J.
    (2021).
    Association between home insulation and hospital admission rates: Retrospective cohort study using linked data from a national intervention programme.
    BMJ,
    371, m4571.
  17. Robertson, O.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Baker, M.
    Atatoa Carr, P.
    Pierse, N.
    (2021).
    Residential mobility for a national cohort of New Zealand-born children by area socioeconomic deprivation level and ethnic group.
    BMJ Open,
    11, e039706.
  18. Chisholm, E.
    Pierse, N.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2021).
    What is a mixed-tenure community? Views from New Zealand practitioners and implications for researchers.
    Urban Policy & Research,
    39(1)
  19. Teariki, M. A.
    Tiatia, R.
    O'Sullivan, K.
    Puloka, V. Signal, L. Shearer, I.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2020).
    Beyond home: Exploring energy poverty among youth in four diverse Pacific island states.
    Energy Research & Social Science,
    70, 101638.
  20. Rangiwhetu, l.
    Pierse, N.
    Chisholm, E.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2020).
    Public housing and well-being: Evaluation frameworks to influence policy.
    Health Education and Behavior,
    47(6), 825-835.
  21. Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Pierse, N.
    (2020).
    Renting poorer housing: Ecological relationships between tenure, dwelling condition, and income, and housing-sensitive hospitalisations in a developed country.
    Health Education and Behavior,
    47(6), 816-824
  22. Shaw, C.
    Woodward, A.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Macmillan, A. Hosking, J. Chapman, R. Waa, A.
    Keall, M.
    (2020).
    Fairness in transport policy: a new approach to applying distributive justice theories.
    Sustainability,
    12(23), 10102.
  23. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Pierse, N.
    (2020).
    Commentary on Housing, health and wellbeing in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
    Health Education and Behavior,
    47(6), 802-804.
  24. Pierse, N.
    White, M.
    Ombler, J.
    Davis, C.
    Chisholm, E.
    Baker, M.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2020).
    Well Homes Initiative: A home-based initiative to address housing-related ill health.
    Health Education and Behavior,
    47(6), 836-844.
  25. Rivera-Muñoz, G.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2020).
    Structural Adjustment & Post-Disaster Housing Recovery: A Critical Analysis of the Case of the Canterbury Earthquakes of 2010 & 2011.
    Health Education and Behavior,
    47(6), 805-815.
  26. Keall, M.
    Tupara, H.
    Pierse, N.
    Wilkie, M.
    Baker, M.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Cunningham, C.
    (2020).
    Study protocol of a randomized controlled trial of home modification to prevent home fall injuries in houses with Māori occupants.
    MDPI Methods and Protocols,
    3(4), 71.
  27. Chisholm, E.
    Pierse, N.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2020).
    Perceived benefits and risks of developing mixed communities in New Zealand: Implementer perspectives.
    Urban Research & Practice,
    Online.
  28. Gatzweiler, F. Fu, B. Rozenblat, C. Jenny Su, H-Jen. Luginaah, I. Corburn, J. Boufford, J.I. Valdes, J.V. Nguendo-Yongsi, B.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Singh, R. Cooper, R. Oni, T. Zhu, Y-G.
    (2020).
    COVID-19 reveals the systematic nature of urban health globally: Commentary and Debate.
    Cities and Health,
    Online.
  29. Werna, E. Siri, J. Tan, D. T.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2020).
    As safe as houses? Why standards for urban development matter.
    Cities & Health,
    Online.
  30. Coulson, G Moore, J. Waa, A. Kearns, R. Witten, K. Batstone, C. Somervell, E. Olivares, G.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2020).
    Toward a framework for resilience assessments: Working across cultures, disciplines, and scales in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
    Frontiers in Sustainable Cities,
    2. doi: 10.3389/frsc.2020.00011.
  31. Shaw, C.
    Boulic, M. Longley, I. Mitchell, T.
    Pierse, N.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2020).
    The association between indoor and outdoor NO2 levels: A case study in 50 residences in an urban neighbourhood in New Zealand.
    Sustainable Cities & Society,
    56, 102093. doi: 10.1016/j.scs.2020.102093.
  32. Robertson, O.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Baker, M.
    Atatoa-Carr, P.
    Pierse, N.
    (2020).
    Changes in area deprivation by moves for New Zealand children.
    Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health,
  33. Chisholm, E.
    Pierse, N.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2020).
    Well Homes Initiative: A home-based intervention to address housing-related ill health.
    Health Education and Behavior,
    47(6), 836-844.
  34. Chisholm, E.
    Pierse, N.
    Davies, C.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2020).
    Promoting health through housing improvements, education and advocacy: lessons from staff involved in Wellington’s Healthy Housing Initiative.
    Health Promotion Journal of Australia,
    31(1), 7-15.
  35. Viggers, H.
    Keall, M.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Wickens, K. Ingham, T. Davies, C. Chapman, R.
    Crane, J.
    (2019).
    Effect of an electricity voucher on electricity use.
    Energy Policy,
    134, 110985.
  36. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Keall, M.
    Whitwell, K. Chapman, R.
    (2019).
    Evaluating natural experiments to measure the co-benefits of urban policy interventions to reduce carbon emissions in New Zealand.
    Science of the Total Environment,
    700, 134408
  37. Ingham, T.R.
    Keall, M.
    Jones, B. Aldridge, D. Latimer, M. Dowell, A. Davies, C.
    Crane, J.
    Draper, J.B. Bailey, L.O.
    Viggers, H.
    Stanley, T.V. Leadbitter, P.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2019).
    Damp mouldy housing and early childhood hospital admissions for acute respiratory infection: a case control study.
    Thorax,
    74: 849–857.
  38. Pierse, N.
    Ombler, J.
    White, M.
    Aspinall, C.
    McMinn, C. Atatoa-Carr, P. Nelson, J. Hawkes, K.
    Fraser, B.
    Cook, H.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2019).
    Service usage by a New Zealand Housing First cohort prior to being housed.
    SSM - Population Health,
    8, 100432.
  39. Ombler, J.
    Fariu-Ariki, P.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Pierse, N.
    Lawson Te-Aho, K.
    Aspinall, C.
    (2019).
    A principles framework for taking action on Māori/Indigenous Homelessness in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
    SSM Population Health,
    8, 100450.
  40. Chisholm, E.
    Keall, M.
    Bennett, J.
    Marshall, A.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Thornley, L.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2019).
    Why don’t owners improve their homes? Results from a survey following a housing warrant-of-fitness assessment for health and safety.
    Australian and NZ Journal of Public Health,
    43, 221-227.
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    Housing-WOF_ANZJPH_paper.pdf
  41. Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Bennett, J.
    Robinson, A. Hailes, A.
    Ombler, J.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2019).
    Evidence base for a housing warrant of fitness.
    Sage Open Medicine,
    7, 1-17.
  42. Walker, G.J. Stelzer‐Braid, S.
    Shorter, C.
    Honeywill, C. Wynn, M. Willenborg, C. Barnes, P. Kang, J.
    Pierse, N.
    Crane, J.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Rawlinson, W.D.
    (2019).
    Viruses associated with acute respiratory infection in a community‐based cohort of healthy New Zealand children.
    Journal of Medical Virology,
    Open access.
  43. Bennett, J.
    Davy, P. Trompetter, B. Yang, Yu.
    Pierse, N.
    Boulic, M. Phipps, R.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2019).
    Sources of indoor air pollution at a New Zealand urban primary school.
    Atmospheric Pollution Research,
    2020, 10, 2, 435-444.
  44. Robertson, O. Carr, P.A.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Pierse, N.
    (2019).
    Residential mobility and socioemotional and behavioural difficulties in a preschool population cohort of New Zealand children.
    J Epidemiol Community Health,
    73:947-953. doi:10.1136/jech-2019-212436.
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    Moving-house-related-to-behavioural-difficulties-in-four-year-olds.pdf
  45. Preval, N.
    Ombler, J.
    Grimes, A.
    Keall, M.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2019).
    Policy failure and success: a Trans-Tasman comparison of two insulation subsidy schemes.
    Agenda: A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform
    26, 51-65.
  46. Chisholm, E.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Fougere, G.
    (2018).
    Tenants’ responses to substandard housing: Hidden and invisible power and the failure of rental housing regulation.
    Housing, Theory & Society,
    37(2), 139-161. doi: 10.1080/14036096.2018.1538019.
  47. Keall, M.
    Shaw, C.
    Chapman, R. Abrahamse, W.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2018).
    Are people who already cycle and walk more responsive to an active travel intervention?
    Journal of Transport & Health,
    10, 84-91.
  48. Shorter, C.
    Crane, J.
    Pierse, N.
    Barnes, P. Kang, J. Wickens, K. Douwes, J. Stanley, T. Täubel, M. Hyvärinen, A.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2018).
    Indoor visible mold and mold odor are associated with new‐onset childhood wheeze in a dose‐dependent manner.
    Indoor Air,
    28(1), 6-15.
  49. Nilsson, M. Griggs, D. McCollum, D.
    Chisholm, E.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Messerli, P. Neumann, B. Visbeck, M. Stafford-Smith, M.
    (2018).
    Mapping interactions between the Sustainable Development Goals : lessons learned and ways forward.
    Sustainability Science,
    6, 1499-1503.
  50. Keall, M.
    Shaw, C.
    Chapman, R.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2018).
    Reductions in carbon dioxide emissions from an intervention to promote cycling and walking: A case study from New Zealand.
    Transportation Research Part D,
    2018, 65, 687-696,
  51. Thompson, M.A.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Fougere, G.
    (2018).
    Policy changes: Kiribati migration and settlement.
    Policy Quarterly,
    13(2), 82-87.
  52. Chapman, R.
    Keall, M.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Grams, M. Witten, K. Woodward, A.
    (2018).
    A Cost Benefit Analysis of an Active Travel Intervention with Health and Carbon Emission Reduction Benefits.
    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health,
    15, 962.
  53. Keall, M.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Pierse, N.
    Cunningham, C.
    Baker, M.
    (2018).
    Lessons Learned from Implementing a Programme of Home Modifications to Prevent Falls amongst the General Population.
    Safety,
    4(2), 26;
  54. Rangiwhetu, Lara
    Pierse, N.
    Viggers, H.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2018).
    Cold New Zealand council housing getting an upgrade
    Policy Quarterly
    14 (2)
  55. O'Sullivan, K.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2017).
    Mixing methods, maximizing results: use of mixed methods research to investigate policy solutions for fuel poverty and energy vulnerability.
    Sage Mixed Methods Research,
    26(7), 1009-1017.
  56. Bierre, S.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2017).
    Telling stories: The role of narratives in rental housing policy change in New Zealand.
    Housing Studies,
    35(1), 29-49. doi: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1363379
  57. Pierse, N.
    Ombler, J.
    Aspinall, C.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2017).
    Homelessness in New Zealand.
    The 12th European Research Conference on Homelessness,

    Proceedings of the 12th European Research Conference on Homelessness can be retrieved from http://www.feantsa.org.

  58. Aspinall, C.
    Pierse, N.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Ombler, J.
    Fraser, B.
    White, M.
    (2017).
    Housing First in New Zealand.
    3rd International Housing First Conference, Padova, Italy,
  59. Aspinall, C.
    Ombler, J.
    Pierse, N.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2017).
    One Housing First to Rule Them All? : Responding to Housing First in Aotearoa.
    Parity,
    Vol 30: Issue 8 p 30-31.
  60. Ombler, J.
    Atatoa-Carr, P. Nelson, J.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Lawson Te-Aho, K. Fariu-Ariki, P. Cook, H.
    Aspinall, C.
    Pierse, N.
    (2017).
    Ending homelessness in New Zealand: Housing first research programme.
    Parity,
    Vol 30: Issue 10, p 5-7.
  61. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Chisholm, E.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Viggers, H.
    O'Sullivan, K.
    Bennett, J.
    Bierre, S.
    Preval, N.
    Tiatia, R.
    Ombler, J.
    Amore, K.
    Rivera-Muñoz, G. Davies, C.
    Aspinall, C.
    Oliver, J.
    Baker, M.
    Keall, M.
    Crane, J.
    Pierse, N.
    (2017).
    Housing, energy and health in resilient cities.
    Cities in New Zealand: Preferences, patterns and possibilities,
    Howden-Chapman, L. Early & J. Ombler (Eds.), (pp. 95-106). Wellington, New Zealand: Steele Roberts Aotearoa.
  62. Preval, N.
    Keall, M.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Grimes, A.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2017).
    Impact of improved insulation and heating on mortality risk of older cohort members with prior cardiovascular or respiratory hospitalisations.
    BMJ Open,
    7, e018079. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018079
  63. Chapman, R. Preval, N.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2017).
    How Economic Analysis Can Contribute to Understanding the Links between Housing and Health.
    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health,
    14 (9), 996.
  64. Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Bennett, J.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Jacobs, D.E. Ormandy, D. Cutler-Welsh, M. Preval N.
    Baker, M.
    Keall, M.
    (2017).
    Measuring the Effect of Housing Quality Interventions: The Case of the New Zealand “Rental Warrant of Fitness”.
    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health,
    2017, 4.
  65. Shorter, C.
    Hales, S. Edwards, R.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Stanley, J.
    (2017).
    What can fuel price increases tell us about the air pollution health co-benefits of a carbon price?
    Journal of Transport & Health,
    8, 81-90.
  66. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Ombler, J.
    Early, L.
    (Eds.), (2017).
    Cities in New Zealand: Preferences, patterns and possibilities.
    Wellington, New Zealand: Steele Roberts, Aotearoa, 178p.
  67. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Siri, J.
    Chisholm, E.
    Chapman, R. Doll, C.N.H. Capon, A.
    (2017).
    SDG3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
    In D. J. Griggs, M. Nilsson, A. Stevance & D. McCollum (Eds.), A Guide to SDG Interactions: From Science to Implementation.
    (pp. 84-126). Paris, France: International Council for Science. doi: 10.24948/2017.01
  68. Chisholm, E.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Fougere, G.
    (2017).
    Renting in New Zealand: Perspectives from tenant advocates.
    Kōtuitui,
    12(1), 95-110. doi: 10.1080/1177083X.2016.1272471.
  69. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Roebbel, N.
    Chisholm, E.
    (2017).
    Setting housing standards to improve global health.
    International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health,
    14(12), 1542. doi: 10.3390/ijerph14121542
  70. O'Sullivan, K.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Sim, D. Stanley, J. Rowan, R. Harris Clark, I. Morris, L. The Waiopehu College 2015 Research Team
    (2017).
    Cool? Young people investigate living in cold housing and fuel poverty. A mixed methods action research study.
    Social Science and Medicine – Population Health,
    3, 66-74.
  71. Rangiwhetu, L.
    Pierse, N.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2017).
    Effects of minor household interventions to block draughts on social housing temperatures: a before and after study.
    Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online,
    12(2), 235-245
  72. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Chisholm, E.
    Bierre, S.
    et al.
    (2016).
    Submission on the Healthy Homes Amendment Bill (No. 2).
    He Kāinga Oranga - Housing and Health Research Programme, Wellington.
    Download document
    Healthy-Homes-Guarantee-Bill-submission-HHRP-20-6-2016.pdf
  73. Tiatia, R.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Robson, B.
    Baker, M.
    Brown, D. Davies, C. McLean, M. Laing, P. Sung, Y. Sim, D. Early, L.
    (2016).
    Household Crowding and Rheumatic Fever Study – Technical Report.
    He Kainga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme. University of Otago, Wellington.
    Download document
    HOUSEHOLD-CROWDING-AND-RHEUMATIC-FEVER-STUDY-TECHNICAL-REPORT-2.pdf
  74. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Bierre, S.
    et al.
    (2016).
    Submission on the Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill.
    He Kāinga Oranga - Housing and Health Research Programme, Wellington.
    Download document
    Submission on the Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill.pdf
  75. O'Sullivan, K.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Stanley, J. Fougere, G.M.
    (2016).
    Heating practices and self-disconnection among electricity prepayment meter consumers in New Zealand: a follow-up survey.
    Utilities Policy,
    41, 139-147.
  76. O'Sullivan, K.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Viggers, H.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2016).
    Child and Youth Fuel Poverty: Assessing the Known and Unknown.
    People, Place and Policy,
    10(1), 77-87. DOI: 10.3351/ppp.0010.0001.0006
  77. Keall, M.
    Pierse, N.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Guria, J.
    Cunningham, C.
    Baker, M.
    (2016).
    Cost—benefit analysis of fall injuries prevented by a programme of home modifications: A cluster randomised controlled trial.
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    Does Retrofitted Insulation Reduce Household Energy Use? Theory and Practice.
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    The Application of Hirschman’s Exit-Voice Framework to Housing Studies: A Review and Some Ways Forward.
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    What Effect Will the 2015 Budget Have on Housing?
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    Home Truths: Confronting New Zealand’s Housing Crisis.
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    Home modifications to reduce injuries from falls in the Home Injury Prevention Intervention (HIPI) study: a cluster-randomised controlled trial.
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  83. O'Sullivan, K.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
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    (2015).
    Fuel poverty, policy, and equity in New Zealand: The promise of prepayment metering.
    Energy Research & Social Science,
    7, 99–107
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    Decent Expectations? The Use and Interpretation of Housing Standards in Tenancy Tribunals in New Zealand.
    New Zealand Universities Law Review,
    26 (2), 153-185.
  86. Baker, M.
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    Infectious Diseases Attributable to Household Crowding in New Zealand: A Systematic Review and Burden of Disease Estimate.
    He Kāinga Oranga/Housing & Health Research Programme, University of Otago.
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    Unaffordable and unhealthy
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    Building Inequality
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    Warming Up New Zealand: Impacts of the New Zealand Insulation Fund on Metered Household Energy Use.
    A paper prepared for the Ministry of Economic Development.
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  91. Baker, M.
    Goodyear, R.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
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    (2012).
    The distribution of household crowding in New Zealand: An analysis based on 1991 to 2006 Census data.
    He Kāinga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme, University of Otago.
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  92. Baker, M.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Kvalsvig, A. Verrall, A. Zhang, J.
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    Increasing incidence and inequalities in infectious diseases in a developed country.
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    Arnold, R. Young, C. Grimes, A. Denne, T.
    (2011).
    The impact of retrofitted insulation and new heaters on health services utilisation and costs, pharmaceutical costs and mortality; Evaluation of Warm Up New Zealand: Heat Smart.
    A report prepared for the Ministry of Economic Development.
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  94. Grimes, A. Denne, T.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Arnold, R.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Preval, N. Young, C.
    (2011).
    Cost Benefit Analysis of the Warm Up New Zealand : Heat Smart Programme.
    A report prepared for Ministry of Economic Development.
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  95. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Ruthe, C. Crichton, S.
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    Habitable houses: lessons learned?
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    Making the connection: the relationship between fuel poverty, electricity disconnection and prepayment metering.
    Energy Policy,
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  97. Keall, M.
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    Estimation of the social costs of home injury.
    Accident Analysis & Prevention,
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  98. Howden-Chapman, P.
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    Improving health through community-based housing interventions.
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    Improving air quality: co-benefits for the urban system.
    Air Quality and Climate Change,
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    Chapman, R. Capon, A. Wilson, N.
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    Carbon pricing is a health protection policy.
    Medical Journal of Australia,
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    Chandola, T. Stafford, M. Marmot, M.
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    Does housing predict mental health status in older people in Whitehall II?
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  102. Carroll, P. Casswell, S. Huakau, J.
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    The Widening Gap: perceptions of poverty and income inequalities and implications of population health.
    Social Policy Journal of New Zealand,
    2011, 37,1-12.
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    A critical review of the ETHOS definition and classification of homelessness.
    European Journal of Homelessness,
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    Close-contact infectious diseases in New Zealand: Trends and ethnic inequalities in hospitalisations, 1989-2008.
    A report prepared for the Māori Health Directorate, Ministry of Health.
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  105. Baker, M.
    Zhang, J.
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    (2010).
    Health Impacts of Social Housing: Hospitalisations in Housing New Zealand Applicants and Tenants, 2003-2008.
    Wellington: He Kāinga Oranga/ Housing & Health Research Programme, University of Otago.
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  106. Baker, M.
    Zhang, J.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2010).
    Health Status of Housing New Zealand Applicants and Tenants: Key Indicators for 2004-2008.
    He Kāinga Oranga / Housing & Health Research Programme University of Otago, Wellington.
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  107. Zhao, P.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2010).
    Social inequalities in mobility: the impact of the hukou system on migrants' job accessibility and commuting costs in Bejing.
    International Development & Planning Review,
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    Evaluating Energy, Health and Carbon Co-benefits from Improved Domestic Space Heating: A Randomised Community Trial.
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    Assessing housing quality and its impact on health, safety and sustainability.
    Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health,
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    Evidence-based politics: How successful are government reviews as policy instruments to reduce health inequalities?
    Social Science and Medicine,
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    Baker, M.
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    Seasonal patterns of mortality in relation to social factors.
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    Climate change and human health: Impact and adaptation issues for New Zealand.
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  114. Chapman, R.
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    Urban form and transport; the transition to resilient cities.
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    Close-contact infectious diseases in New Zealand: Trends and ethnic inequalities in hospitalisations,1989 to 2008 - 2nd Edition
    He Kāinga Oranga/Housing & Health Research Programme University of Otago, Wellington.

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  116. Keall, M.
    Kamalesh, V.
    Baker, M.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2009).
    Taranaki home injury hazards study.
    Build Magazine,
    112, 52-5.
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  117. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Bennett, J.
    Siebers, R.
    (Eds.), (2009).
    Do damp and mould matter? Health impact of leaky homes.
    Wellington: Steele Roberts Aotearoa, 172p.
  118. Pene, G. Peita, M.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
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    Living the Tokelauan way in New Zealand.
    Social Policy Journal,
    35, 79-92.
  119. Howden-Chapman, P.
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    Warm Homes: drivers of demand for heating in the residential sector in New Zealand.
    Energy Policy,
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    O'Day, D. Kennedy, M.
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    Retrofitting housing with insulation: a cost-benefit analysis of a randomised community trial.
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    Excess winter morbidity and mortality: still a lack of evidence that housing or socio-economic status makes much difference.
    Reviews on Environmental Health,
    23(3), 203-221.
  122. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Pierse, N.
    Nicholls, S.
    Bennett, J.
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    Effects of improved home heating on asthma in community dwelling children: randomised community study.
    BMJ,
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    Does more effective home heating reduce school absences for children with asthma?
    Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health,
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  124. Baker, M.
    Das, D. Venugopal, K.
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    Tuberculosis associated with household crowding in developed country.
    Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health,
    62(8),1-8.
  125. Keall, M.
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    Cunningham, C.
    (2007).
    Healthy Housing Index Pilot Study Final Report.
    He Kāinga Oranga/Housing & Health Research Programme Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington.
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  126. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Matheson, A.
    Crane, J.
    Viggers, H.
    Cunningham, M. Blakely, T.
    Cunningham, C.
    Woodward, A.
    Saville-Smith, K.
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    Waipara, N. Chapman, R. Davie, G.
    (2007).
    Effect of insulating existing houses on health inequality: cluster randomised study in the community.
    BMJ,
    334, 460. doi:10.1136/bmj.39070.573032.80
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  127. Hales, S.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
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    Effects of air pollution on health.
    BMJ,
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  128. Signal, L. Martin, J. Reid, P. Carroll, C.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Keefe Ormsby, V. Richards, R. Robson, B. Wall, T.
    (2007).
    Tackling health inequalities: moving theory to action.
    International Journal of Equity in Health,
    6(12). doi:10.1186/1475-9276-6-12.
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  129. Sheuya, S.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Patel, S.
    (2007).
    The Design of Housing and Shelter Programs: The Social and Environmental Determinants of Inequalities.
    Journal of Urban Health,
    84, 98–108.
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  130. Bierre, S.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Signal, L.
    Cunningham, C.
    (2007).
    Institutional challenges in addressing healthy low-cost housing for all: learning from past policy.
    Social Policy Journal of New Zealand,
    30, 42-64.
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    Saville-Smith, K.
    Crane, J.
    (2006).
    Housing, Crowding and Health Study: Characteristics of Cohort Members and their Hospitalisations – February 2003 to June 2005.
    He Kāinga Oranga / Housing & Health Research Programme Wellington School of Medicine & Health Sciences.
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  132. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Housing and Heating Research Team.
    (2006).
    Housing, Heating and Health Study: 2005/2006 Report One - Aims and methods.
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  133. Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2006)
    Book Review of “Housing, Fuel Poverty and Health: a Pan-European Analysis” By Jonathan D. Healy.
    ANZJPH
    2006-2 – 28

     Book Review of “Housing, Fuel Poverty and Health: a Pan-European Analysis” By Jonathan D. Healy (PDF). Published by Ashgate, UK, 2004. ANZJPH 2006-2 – 28.

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  134. Thomson, G. Wilson, N.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2006).
    Population level policy options for increasing the prevalence of smokefree homes.
    Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health,
    60, 298-304, doi:10.1136/jech.2005.038091
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  135. Gale, J.
    Crane, J.
    Siebers, R.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Phipps, R.
    (2005).
    Is the Wellington medical school facility a sick building?
    The New Zealand Medical Student Journal,
    3
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  136. Thomson, G. Wilson, N.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2005).
    Attitudes to, and knowledge of, secondhand smoke in New Zealand homes and cars
    New Zealand Medical Journal,
    118(1213).
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  137. Thomson, G. Wilson, N.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2005).
    Smoky homes: a review of the exposure and effects of secondhand smoke in New Zealand homes.
    New Zealand Medical Journal,
    118(1213).
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  138. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Crane, J.
    Matheson, A.
    Viggers, H.
    Cunningham, M. Blakely, T. O’Dea, D.
    Cunningham, C.
    Woodward, A. Saville-Smith, A.
    Baker, M.
    Waipara, N.
    (2005).
    Retrofitting houses with insulation to reduce health inequalities: Aims and methods of a clustered, randomised community-based trial
    Social Science and Medicine,
    61(12, 2600-2610.
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  139. Lane, J. Siebers, R. Pene, G.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Crane, J.
    (2005).
    Tokelau: a unique low allergen environment at sea level.
    Clinical and Experimental Allergy,
    35 479-482. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2222.2005.02202.
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  140. Crampton, P. Blakely, T.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2004)
    Health system funding is already ‘needs-based’.
    The Dominion Post

    Health system funding is already ‘needs-based’ (PDF). Dominion Post Newspaper, Tuesday March 9th 2004 . Crampton P, Blakely T, Howden-Chapman P

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  141. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Crampton, P. Rochford, T. Matheson, A. Signal, L. Blakely, T. Thompson, G. Martin, J. Robinson, J.
    (2004)
    A need for Māori and Pacific doctors.
    The Dominion Post

    A need for more Maori and Pacific doctors (PDF). Dominion Post Newspaper, Thursday March 4th 2004.

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  142. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Viggers, H.
    Matheson, A.
    Crane, J.
    Waipara, N. Blakely, T. Cunningham, M.
    Cunningham, C.
    Woodward, A. O’Dea, D.
    Saville-Smith, K.
    Douwes, J. Marshall, C. Skelton, P.
    (2002)
    A national study of the health effects of insulating homes: the baseline data (Report 2).
    University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    A national study of the health effects of insulating homes: the baseline data (Report 2), August 2002. He Kainga Oranga Housing and Health Research Programme Department of Public Health Wellin

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  143. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Crane, J.
    Blakely, T. Cunningham, M. O’Dea, D. Woodward, A.
    Saville-Smith, K.
    Waipara, N. Douwes, J. Matheson, A.
    Viggers, H.
    Marshall, C. Skelton, P.
    (2002)
    A national study of the health effects of insulating homes: the baseline data (Report 1).
    University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    A national study of the health effects of insulating homes: the baseline data (Report 1), March 2002. He Kāinga Oranga Housing and Health Research Programme Department of Public Health Welling

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  144. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Wilson, N.
    (2000)
    Social Inequalities and Health: New Zealand 1999.
    Ministry of Health
     Chapter 7, Wellington, Ministry of Health, 2000, 133-146. 
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    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2010).
    For whom the city? Housing and locational preferences in New Zealand.
    In Howden-Chapman, P., Stuart, K. & Chapman, R. (Eds.),
    Sizing up the City: Urban form and transport in New Zealand. (pp 34-51). Wellington: Steele Roberts.

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