Charlotte Entrican Paul (born 1948) is a New Zealand doctor, epidemiologist and emeritus professor at the University of Otago.
Charlotte Paul | |
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.jpg) Paul in 2007 | |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Otago |
| Thesis | The role of steroid contraception in the aetiology of breast cancer : a thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (1992) |
| Academic work | |
| Doctoral students | Ann Richardson, Lianne Parkin |
Early life and education
editPaul was born in 1948, the second daughter of publishers Janet and Blackwood Paul and sister of the artist Joanna Paul.[1] She completed her PhD at the University of Otago in 1992.[2]
Career
editPaul became an associate professor in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at the University of Otago in 1993.[3] She is an emeritus professor in the same department.[4] Her fields of research have included HIV/Aids, women's cancers, screening, contraception and epidemiology.[4] She directed the Aids Epidemiology Group for 20 years, monitoring HIV/Aids in New Zealand.[5]
In the 2020s Paul became concerned about the use of puberty blockers to delay the normally-timed puberty of children. She wrote articles for the New Zealand weekly magazine The Listener,[6] and the monthly magazine North and South.[7] She was also quoted in a Radio New Zealand story[8] questioning New Zealand's guidelines on puberty blockers, with Paul stating, "The New Zealand Guidelines for Gender Affirming Care do not refer to the fact that this is an unapproved indication, or to the Medical Council guidelines and the need to ensure that patients know that this is an unapproved indication,", and the story stating, "New Zealand was out of step with many other countries, which were moving to a more cautious approach, she said." In early 2023, the New Zealand Ministry of Health removed a line stating that puberty blockers "are a safe and fully reversible medicine" from its website.[9]
Notable doctoral students of Paul's include Ann Richardson and Lianne Parkin.[10][11]
Personal life
editPaul is married to Kevin Cunningham.[1]
Selected works
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- Paul, Charlotte (12 October 2011) 'Keep the ethical safeguards in medical research' New Zealand Herald
- Paul, Charlotte (December 2019) 'Epidemics expose public health failures' Newsroom.
- Paul, Charlotte (17 May 2020) 'Covid-19 and the common good'. The Spinoff
References
edit- ^ a b "Paul, Charlotte (Dr), 1948–". tiaki.natlib.govt.nz. Archived from the original on 8 May 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
- ^ Paul, Charlotte (1992). The role of steroid contraception in the aetiology of breast cancer : a thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. OCLC 429793935. Archived from the original on 23 January 2023. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
- ^ "News". New Zealand Medical Journal. 107 (970): 21. 26 January 1994.
- ^ a b "Emeritus Professor Charlotte Paul". www.otago.ac.nz. Archived from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
- ^ "Charlotte Paul". The Spinoff. 17 May 2020. Archived from the original on 7 October 2022. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
- ^ Paul, Charlotte. "Identity crisis: Have we gone too far in letting kids change their gender?". New Zealand Herald/The Listener. Archived from the original on 27 November 2022. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
- ^ Paul, Charlotte. "A terrible trap: Is our Ministry of Health failing to respond adequately to the rise in puberty blockers?". North and South. Archived from the original on 3 March 2024. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
- ^ Hill, Ruth (29 September 2022). "Puberty blocker use jumps as expert backs results". Newsroom. Archived from the original on 10 November 2023. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
- ^ Daalder, Marc (23 March 2023). "Trans health advice scrubbed after complaints". Newsroom. Archived from the original on 2 December 2023. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
- ^ Parkin, Lianne (2008). Risk factors for venous thromboembolism (PhD thesis). OUR Archive, University of Otago. hdl:10523/8329.
- ^ Richardson, Ann (2020). Evaluation of a pilot breast cancer screening programme (Thesis). OUR Research. Archived from the original on 7 October 2022. Retrieved 25 November 2022.