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If you are irritated by people not following Covid restrictions, but are not as incensed by unliveable welfare, housing insecurity, abuse in state care, racist policing & justice, & our racist health system, then you are missing the point - these are the causes of your irritation

Great job The Spinoff and Jesse - vaccination rates often just as much about easy access to effective and appropriate non-discriminatory services cf ‘hesitation’

Just a few weeks to go until our next #Homelessness #ResearchNetwork meeting. Hear from: 🌟Chris Martin, UNSW 🌟Carol McMinn, The People's Project NZ 🌟Polly Atatoa Carr, NIDEA, The University of Waikato 🎓 Find out more and sign up on our website! homelessnessimpact.org/homelessness-r…

You might not have heard much about the many, many doctors strongly in support of vaccination against Covid-19. Well, here they are. interactives.stuff.co.nz/2021/10/doctor… via Stuff

As Aotearoa faces rising COVID-19 cases, we need to reconfigure public health actions to make the most difference: making models for underserved groups the rule not the exception & seeing the crisis as more than just Covid. blogs.otago.ac.nz/pubhealthexper… Polly Atatoa Carr Taipapaki

Update on vax uptake & access data Ive been mapping waikato.ac.nz/nidea/access-t… Protective public health measures against Covid-19 will likely be dropped so we must re-examine the data Nearing 90% of eligible pop masks inequities. There are large unprotected regions of Aotearoa 1/

Hours from hospitals. Eroded health services. Low vax rates. High-risk populations. Add Auckland holidaymakers to the mix and you risk a perfect storm. thespinoff.co.nz/covid-19/23-11…

Join us 16 Dec 1pm to launch Te Ngira: Institute for Population Research, as we build on the success of the National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis towards excellent & transformative population research docs.google.com/forms/d/11SLYB… The University of Waikato 🎓 @thkukutai Francis Collins

Keeping schools open is best for kids' wellbeing, but Polly Atatoa Carr and I argue that the “bespoke” guidelines for schools about what to do when they have a COVID case is not only tough on schools but represents a nightmare for parents to navigate stuff.co.nz/national/educa…

It's not parents that need to be ready: policy, employers, and society needs to prepare to support parents with these new ‘invisible’ lockdowns

Society needs to prepare for (and prevent) yet more challenges for parents as schools, communities and families carry the (often inequitable) increasingly invisible burden of the COVID response and associated decision making Kate Prickett Te Ngira: Institute for Population Research stuff.co.nz/national/educa…

This. Schools now: ‘supervise’ children, contact trace, apply for RATs, communicate with affected whānau, support those having to isolate and pivot when phases shift. Oh perhaps some teaching and learning in there too? Remember also: every inconsistent process increases inequity

Te Ngira: Institute for Population Research Institute for Population Research The University of Waikato 🎓 is hiring a Director. An outstanding opportunity to lead population research with transformative impact... work with brilliant peeps @thkukutai Polly Atatoa Carr Yara Jarallah Jesse Jessica Terruhn +++ linkedin.com/jobs/view/3254…

Tomorrow (18th, 1030am) I'm presenting our Growing Up in NZ report findings about how family resources across the early life course affect child wellbeing in Aotearoa NZ as part of the Productivity Commission's Fair Chance for All inquiry. Attend online or at VUW Pipitea. Link👇

We should be concerned about inequities in resources we know matter for children's development. These start at the earliest ages and persist into childhood A link to the report, written with Dr. Sarah-Jane Paine, Polly Atatoa Carr, & Prof Susan Morton, Growing Up in NZ + key findings

StatsNZ are making big changes to our data landscape with little consultation. I wrote about the quiet cancellation of the Living in Aotearoa survey last week. This means we won't have a good measure of persistent child poverty--something the govt is mandated to report on.

These decisions to cut funding to critical longitudinal surveys in Aotearoa, in combo with an ‘admin first’ census, will exacerbate inequities, create significant fiscal and community costs, and limit the ability to monitor the Crowns responsibilities. More debate is critical.

Need a quick primer on the current erosion of New Zealand's data infrastructure? Read this: newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/09/pov… Polly Polly Atatoa Carr & I argue this data divestment, like pausing funding for Growing Up in NZ, will result in policy-making blindspots & create further inequities

Experts are concerned the cuts in funding for data and insights across various ministries will undermine the Government's social investment approach newsroom.co.nz/2024/06/04/scr…

Looking forward to this event in July - talking about pro-equity and antiracist programmes to support hauora for tamariki