Story: Medical research

More links and websites

• Auckland Medical Research Foundation

  The foundation promotes research of high scientific value and purpose in order to improve the medical care of all New Zealanders.

• Health Research Council of New Zealand

  The Health Research Council manages the government's investment in health research.

• Malaghan Institute of Medical Research

  The Malaghan Institute, New Zealand's leading independent medical research institute, is focused on finding better treatments for diseases such as cancer, asthma and allergy.

• New Zealand Brain Research Institute

  The institute offers patients specialist diagnosis and the latest treatments, and conducts leading-edge research into brain disorders.

• Otago Medical School Research Society

  In existence since 1928, the Otago Medical School Research Society fosters research within the Otago Medical School.

More suggestions and sources

• 21 years: the National Heart Foundation of New Zealand 1968–1989: a generation of heart research and education. Auckland: National Heart Foundation of New Zealand, 1989.

• Dow, Derek. ‘Driving their own health canoe: Maori and health research.’ In Past judgement: social policy in New Zealand history, edited by Bronwyn Dalley and Margaret Tennant, pp.91–107. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2004.

• Dow, Derek. Safeguarding the public health: a history of the New Zealand Department of Health. Wellington: Victoria University Press in association with the Ministry of Health, 1995.

• Meduna, Veronika, and Rebecca Priestley. Atoms, dinosaurs and DNA: 68 great New Zealand scientists. Auckland: Random House, 2008.

• Nye, Edwin R., ed. Medical research in Otago 1922–1997: as portrayed by 75 years of the proceedings of the University of Otago Medical School. Dunedin: Otago Medical School Research Society, 1998.

• Page, Dorothy. Anatomy of a medical school: a history of medicine at the University of Otago, 1875–2000. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2008.