Louise Signal
{{Short description|New Zealand public health researcher}}
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Louise Nadine Signal is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in researching public health policy and promotion, inequities in healthcare, and environmental determinants of health.
Academic career
Signal has a Bachelor of Arts from Massey University, and a Master of Social Science from the University of Waikato, which she completed in 1983.{{Cite web |last=Otago |first=University of |date=2023-08-03 |title=Profile |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/bms/expertise/profile |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=www.otago.ac.nz |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=University of Otago |first=Wellington |date=2023-04-13 |title=Professor Louise Signal, Department of Public Health |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/wellington/departments/publichealth/staff/professor-louise-signal-department-of-public-health |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=www.otago.ac.nz |language=en}} Her master's thesis was on the evaluation of a marae-based training programme for young people.{{Cite thesis|title=An outcome evaluation of the Waikato Technical Institute's marae-based young persons' training programme |date=1983|type=Master's thesis|last=Signal|first=Louise Nadine}} Signal then completed a PhD titled The politics of the Ontario Premier's Council on Health Strategy: a case study in the new public health. at the University of Toronto in 1994.{{Cite thesis|title=The politics of the Ontario Premier's Council on Health Strategy: a case study in the new public health.|last=Signal|first=Louise Nadine|date=1994|publisher=University of Toronto|type=PhD thesis|isbn=9780315926721}} Signal then joined the faculty of the University of Otago, rising to full professor in 2018.{{Cite web |last=Otago |first=Study Public Health at |date=2017-12-15 |title=University of Otago announces academic promotions |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/christchurch/departments/psychmed/news/university-of-otago-announces-academic-promotions |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=www.otago.ac.nz |language=en}} As of 2024, she is the Director of the Health Promotion and Policy Research Unit at the University of Otago, Wellington, and also Head of the Department of Public Health.
Signal's public health research focuses on environmental determinants of health, health promotion and policy, and health inequities, especially in low-income communities. She has investigated inequities in cancer treatment for Māori, exposure of children to harmful advertising, obesity prevention, and led a project in New Zealand and Tonga using automated cameras to record children's lives.{{Cite web |last=ZB |first=Newstalk |date=2024-03-06 |title=Otago Uni Professor: Children can't escape harmful advertising |url=https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/audio/louise-signal-otago-uni-professor-says-children-cant-escape-harmful-advertising/ |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=ZB |language=en-nz}}{{Cite web |last=Husband |first=Dale |date=2023-10-24 |title=Professor Louise Signal {{!}} Director of the Health Promotion and Policy Research Unit at the University of Otago |url=https://waateanews.com/2023/10/25/professor-louise-signal-director-of-the-health-promotion-and-policy-research-unit-at-the-university-of-otago/ |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=Waatea News: Māori Radio Station |language=en-NZ}} Alongside colleagues Janet Hoek, Richard Egan and Christina McKerchar, Signal is Co-Director of the Te Rōpū Rangahau ō Te Kāhui Matepukupuku: Cancer Society Research Collaboration, a five-year research initiative aiming to reduce both the incidence of cancer and its impact, and also to address systemic inequities.{{Cite web |date=2021-08-12 |title=Cancer Society Research Collaboration with University of Otago |url=https://www.cancer.org.nz/about-us/cancer-research/cancer-society-research-collaboration-with-university-of-otago/ |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=Cancer Society NZ |language=en-US}}
Selected works
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= Book =
- Louise Signal and Mihi Ratima (eds). Promoting Health in Aotearoa New Zealand. Otago University Press (2015) ISBN 9781877578823
= Journal articles =
- {{CiteQ|Q92893410}}
- {{CiteQ|Q38179071}}
- {{CiteQ|Q124749858}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Howden-Chapman |first1=Philippa |title=Housing and health in older people - Ministry of Social Development |journal=Social Policy Journal of New Zealand |url=https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/journals-and-magazines/social-policy-journal/spj13/housing-and-health-in-older-people.html |access-date=2024-03-06 |publisher=Ministry of Social Development |last2=Signal |first2=Louise |author-link=Philippa Howden-Chapman|date=December 1999|volume=13}}
- {{CiteQ|Q33239653|doi-access=free}}
- {{CiteQ|Q42372913|doi-access=free}}
- {{CiteQ|Q37914947}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaollB4T6ac 20 years of EDOR: Professor Louise Signal], talk by Signal in December 2023, via YouTube
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