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.
Louise Signal | |
|---|---|
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Rangitikei College, University of Toronto, Massey University, University of Waikato |
| Theses |
|
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Otago |
Academic career
editSignal has a Bachelor of Arts from Massey University, and a Master of Social Science from the University of Waikato, which she completed in 1983.[1][2] Her master's thesis was on the evaluation of a marae-based training programme for young people.[3] 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.[4] Signal then joined the faculty of the University of Otago, rising to full professor in 2018.[5] 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.[1]
Signal's public health research focuses on environmental determinants of health, health promotion and policy, and health inequities, especially in low-income communities.[2][5] 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.[6][5][7] 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.[1][8]
Selected works
edit
Book
edit- Louise Signal and Mihi Ratima (eds). Promoting Health in Aotearoa New Zealand. Otago University Press (2015) ISBN 9781877578823
Journal articles
edit- Andrea Teng; Amanda C Jones; Anja Mizdrak; Louise Signal; Murat Genç; Nick Wilson (19 June 2019). "Impact of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes on purchases and dietary intake: Systematic review and meta-analysis". Obesity Reviews. 20 (9): 1187–1204. doi:10.1111/OBR.12868. ISSN 1467-7881. PMID 31218808. Wikidata Q92893410.
- Gabrielle Jenkin; N Madhvani; Louise Signal; S Bowers (17 January 2014). "A systematic review of persuasive marketing techniques to promote food to children on television". Obesity Reviews. 15 (4): 281–293. doi:10.1111/OBR.12141. ISSN 1467-7881. PMID 24433359. Wikidata Q38179071.
- L Thornley; J Ball; L Signal; K Lawson-Te Aho; E Rawson (8 August 2014). "Building community resilience: learning from the Canterbury earthquakes". Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal Of Social Sciences Online. 10 (1): 23–35. doi:10.1080/1177083X.2014.934846. ISSN 1177-083X. Wikidata Q124749858.
- Howden-Chapman, Philippa; Signal, Louise (December 1999). "Housing and health in older people - Ministry of Social Development". Social Policy Journal of New Zealand. 13. Ministry of Social Development. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
- Anthony Maher; Nick Wilson; Louise Signal; George Thomson (11 April 2006). "Patterns of sports sponsorship by gambling, alcohol and food companies: an Internet survey". BMC Public Health. 6: 95. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-6-95. ISSN 1471-2458. PMC 1459130. PMID 16608525. Wikidata Q33239653.
- Louise Signal; J Stanley; M Smith; et al. (8 October 2017). "Children's everyday exposure to food marketing: an objective analysis using wearable cameras". International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 14 (1): 137. doi:10.1186/S12966-017-0570-3. ISSN 1479-5868. PMC 5632829. PMID 28988542. Wikidata Q42372913.
- Gabrielle Jenkin; Louise Signal; G Thomson (10 August 2011). "Framing obesity: the framing contest between industry and public health at the New Zealand inquiry into obesity". Obesity Reviews. 12 (12): 1022–1030. doi:10.1111/J.1467-789X.2011.00918.X. ISSN 1467-7881. PMID 21831231. Wikidata Q37914947.
References
edit- ^ a b c Otago, University of (3 August 2023). "Profile". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
- ^ a b University of Otago, Wellington (13 April 2023). "Professor Louise Signal, Department of Public Health". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
- ^ Signal, Louise Nadine (1983). An outcome evaluation of the Waikato Technical Institute's marae-based young persons' training programme (Master's thesis).
- ^ Signal, Louise Nadine (1994). The politics of the Ontario Premier's Council on Health Strategy: a case study in the new public health (PhD thesis). University of Toronto. ISBN 9780315926721.
- ^ a b c Otago, Study Public Health at (15 December 2017). "University of Otago announces academic promotions". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
- ^ ZB, Newstalk (6 March 2024). "Otago Uni Professor: Children can't escape harmful advertising". ZB. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
- ^ Husband, Dale (24 October 2023). "Professor Louise Signal | Director of the Health Promotion and Policy Research Unit at the University of Otago". Waatea News: Māori Radio Station. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
- ^ "Cancer Society Research Collaboration with University of Otago". Cancer Society NZ. 12 August 2021. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
External links
edit- 20 years of EDOR: Professor Louise Signal, talk by Signal in December 2023, via YouTube