Virginia Hope
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Virginia Hope {{Post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM}} is a New Zealand public health specialist, researcher and public sector governance expert. In 2014 Hope was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to health.
Academic career
Hope completed a Diploma of Community Health at the University of Otago and a medical degree and Masters of Philosophy at the University of Auckland.{{Cite web |title=Virginia Hope |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/virginia-hope-bba4b06/details/education/ |access-date=30 September 2024 |website=LinkedIn}} Hope served in the Auckland Regional Public Health Service as the Medical Officer of Health (Environmental Health) for ten years, and then joined the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR), a Crown Research Institute, in 2006.{{Cite web |title=ESR team take supreme award at science awards |url=https://www.esr.cri.nz/news-publications/esr-team-take-supreme-award-at-science-awards/ |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=www.esr.cri.nz |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Taumata Arowai Board {{!}} Taumata Arowai |url=https://www.taumataarowai.govt.nz/about/our-team/taumata-arowai-board/ |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=www.taumataarowai.govt.nz |language=en-GB}} She is the Medical Director at ESR, and has also been Chair of the Hutt Valley District Health Board and the Capital and Coast District Health Board, and an elected member of the Auckland District Health Board. She was a part of the Ministry of Health's COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group.{{Cite web |last=Daly |first=Michael |date=18 August 2020 |title=Coronavirus: How genome testing is helping identify Covid-19 clusters |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/122487242/coronavirus-how-genome-testing-is-helping-identify-covid19-clusters |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=www.stuff.co.nz}}
Hope serves on the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates potential miscarriages of justice. She was appointed to the role in 2020.{{Cite web |title=Ā Mātou Kaikōmihana {{!}} Our Commissioners |url=https://www.ccrc.nz/about-us/a-matou-kaikomihana-our-commissioners/ |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=Te Kāhui Tātari Ture {{!}} Criminal Cases Review Commission |language=en-NZ}}{{Cite web |date=2020-07-06 |title=Criminal Cases Review Commission appointments announced |url=https://www.lawsociety.org.nz/news/newsroom/criminal-cases-review-commission-appointments-announced/ |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=New Zealand Law Society {{!}} Te Kāhui Ture o Aotearoa |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Meriana Johnsen |date=2020-06-03 |title=Five new appointments to Criminal Cases Review Commission |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/418197/five-new-appointments-to-criminal-cases-review-commission |access-date=2024-09-29 |work=RNZ |language=en-nz}} She is also on the board of water services regulator Taumata Arowai.
Honours and awards
In the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours, Hope was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to health.{{Cite web |date=2014-06-02 |title=The Queen's Birthday Honours List 2014 {{!}} Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) |url=https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/publications/queens-birthday-honours-list-2014 |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=www.dpmc.govt.nz |language=en}} In 2020 she was awarded the Science New Zealand Individual Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2021 Hope was part of the team that won the Liley Medal for their research showing the effects of New Zealand's COVID-19 response, which was published in The Lancet.{{Cite web |title=COVID-19 research team earns Liley Medal |url=https://www.massey.ac.nz/about/news/covid-19-research-team-earns-liley-medal/ |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=www.massey.ac.nz |language=en-NZ}}
Selected works
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- {{CiteQ|Q50115746}}
- {{CiteQ|Q100397055}}
- {{CiteQ|Q30395289|doi-access=free}}
- {{CiteQ|Q47563886}}
- {{CiteQ|Q42277164}}
- {{CiteQ|Q30390706}}
- {{CiteQ|Q47579689}}
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Category:New Zealand scientists
Category:University of Otago alumni
Category:University of Auckland alumni