
Professor Nevil Pierse, BSc, MSc, PhD
Research Professor; Co-Director of He Kainga Oranga / Housing and Health Research Programme
University of Otago
Professor Nevil Pierse is co-leader of He Kainga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme. Originally a statistician by training, his current work is done in partnership with a wide variety of stakeholders including government and community organisations and is focused on the design and implementation of natural experiments to improve the home and community environments. Nevil and the groups work on this was awarded the Prime Minister Science Prize in 2014. He is currently working on the Healthy Housing Initiative with which looks at home interventions to prevent rehospitalisation of children with housing related disease. This programme has accessed and remediated over 30,000 homes in New Zealand, and resulted in a decrease of nearly 10,000 hospital admissions. The Healthy Housing Initiative was awarded the Prime Minister Sprit of Service award in 2019. Nevil also leads a programme one looking at optimizing the housing system especially for those without housing. He works closely with exemplar of The Peoples Project in Hamilton. Nevil has a keen interest in big data and leads 5 Housing and Health projects on the integrated data infrastructure. In 2021 the group was awarded the Rutherford Medal for the quality and Impact of their work.
SESSIONS
Day 2
9:00
Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
Professor Nevil Pierse, BSc, MSc, PhD, Research Professor, Co-Director of He Kainga Oranga / Housing and Health Research Programme, University of Otago