Warwick BruntonWarwick Brunton

Dr Warwick Brunton is an honorary senior lecturer in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at the Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago. He is a health historian and held various management and policy-making positions in the Department / Ministry of Health from 1972-96.

We need and deserve fit-for-purpose public health policy

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New Zealand’s public health infrastructure has swung wildly between comprehensive and chaos over the past century. Preventive and social medicine expert Dr Warwick Brunton says there’s never been a better time to learn from the past and reimagine public health in Aotearoa. Anxieties about significant rundown of public health capacity in the Ministry of Health … Read more