Susan is an expert in life course epidemiology and a specialist in Public Health Medicine. She is the Director of the University of Auckland cross-faculty Centre for Longitudinal Research - He Ara ki Mua, and the Foundation Director of the contemporary longitudinal study of NZ children and families (Growing Up in New Zealand) since its inception in 2005. Susan has a first class Honours degree in pure mathematics and trained as a secondary teacher prior to undertaking her MBChB in Auckland in the 1990s. She began postgraduate training in Paediatrics before being awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to undertake a PhD in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1998. On returning to NZ in 2003 she completed her Public Health training and set up the longitudinal study and cross-faculty UoA Centre to provide its academic home. Susan in passionate about child wellbeing and knowledge translation of robust scientific research to provide context relevant evidence to improve life course wellbeing within and across populations.

Qualifications:
BSc(Hons), Dip (Sec)Teaching, BHB, MBChB, PhD, FAFPHM, FNZCPHM