Member profiles
Professor Joseph M Boden
Joe Boden has a BA in Psychology from Boston University, and an MA and PhD in Psychology from Case Western Reserve University. He previously worked in the USA, UK and Australia before coming to New Zealand in 2002. Since 2005 he has been with the Christchurch Health and Development Study (CHDS), a longitudinal study of a birth cohort born in mid-1977 and followed to the present day. In 2019 Joe became the fourth Director of the CHDS. His interests are in mental health and substance use epidemiology, and longitudinal research methods.
Professor, Director of the Christchurch Health and Development Study, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch
Email: joseph.boden@otago.ac.nz
Dr Andi Crawford
He tangata tiriti ahau. Nō Czech Republic, Scotland, Switzerland, Prussia, Ireland, England ōku tīpuna.
Andi Crawford is a Clinical Psychologist and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Psychological Medicine. Andi recently completed her post-doc which explored pathways to support children, mothers, and their families who have experienced prenatal alcohol and drug exposure. Andi has 20 years’ of experience working in child development, child and adolescent mental health, maternal mental health and addiction services. She currently works for Te Ara Manapou (Pregnancy and Parenting Service, Te Whatu Ora – Te Matau a Māui) providing support for pregnant women and parents of young children who experience addiction and mental health challenges. Currently, she is the Tangata Tiriti co-lead for the development of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Diagnostic Guidelines in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Honorary Research Fellow
Email: andi.crawford@auckland.ac.nz
Dr Rose Crossin
Rose is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Population Health, at the University of Otago Christchurch campus. Rose’s research focusses on quantifying and preventing drug and alcohol harm from a public health perspective. She also has an interest in how drug and alcohol policy impact harm at a population level. She is the lead investigator on the HRC funded “Drug Harms Ranking Study for Aotearoa New Zealand”.
Senior Lecturer, Department of Population Health, University of Otago (Christchurch)
Email: rose.crossin@otago.ac.nz
Associate Professor James Foulds
James Foulds is a Christchurch-based forensic psychiatrist whose research interests include using longitudinal data to study alcohol and methamphetamine-relating offending.
Associate Professor, University of Otago
Email: James.foulds@otago.ac.nz
Dr Sarah Herbert
Sarah is a Māori health leader, passionate about embedding Te Tiriti O Waitangi and upholding Māori health rights. With a background in critical health psychology her expertise lies in Hauora Māori with interests in Māori alcohol use, Māori population health, Māori equity, system responsiveness to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and Māori health research.
Sarah completed her PhD in 2017 which explored the social context of Māori alcohol use. Since then, she has been involved in alcohol research exploring: the health impacts of key modelled alcohol interventions among Māori and non-Māori in Aotearoa; how alcohol and alcohol harms are framed in New Zealand policy, strategy and action plans as well as how these documents align with the WHO SAFER framework. Sarah is also providing expert advice to an independent review of the New Zealand alcohol levy.
Having had previous experience as a Māori health lecturer and researcher at Auckland University of Technology, and more recently within Te Kupenga Hauora Māori (Māori Health Department) at the University of Auckland Sarah brings broad knowledge of the New Zealand health system and the determinants of health.
Project Manager; Māori equity – Te Whatu Ora
Email: Sarah.herbert09@gmail.com
Associate Professor Taisia Huckle
Taisia is an Associate Professor and the quantitative team leader at SHORE and Whariki Research Centre, Massey University. She currently has a Sir Charles Hercus fellowship awarded by the Health Research Council. Taisia’s research has a major focus on the implementation of alcohol policy and its effects on harms and inequities. She participates in international collaborative projects on alcohol policy, is a co-author on the book Alcohol No Ordinary Commodity and has contributed to World Health Organisation books and events.
Associate Professor, Massey University
Email: t.huckle@massey.ac.nz
Associate Professor Fiona Hutton
Fiona Hutton is an Associate Professor (Reader) at the Institute of Criminology, Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University, Wellington, where she is also the Director of the Institute of Criminology. She has taught and researched in the areas of Criminology, specifically criminological theory, youth crime and cultures, drug policy, harm reduction, alcohol and other drugs, for the past twenty-five years. She has published extensively in New Zealand and international journals on her research, and is the author of ‘Risky Pleasures? Club Cultures and Feminine Identities’ (Ashgate, 2006), and the edited collection ‘Cultures of Intoxication: Key Issues and Debates’ (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2020). In 2020 she completed a report on drug checking at New Zealand festivals for the Ministry of Health and is a keen advocate for evidence-based drug law reform and harm reduction. Current research projects include: patients’ experiences of therapeutic use of cannabis; documenting the experiences of those with a drug-related conviction; critically exploring the concept of intoxication, and how the intoxication practices of diverse groups are experienced and responded to.
Associate Professor, Institute of Criminology (Director), Victoria University, Wellington
Email: fiona.hutton@vuw.ac.nz
Professor Bodo Lang
Bodo’s career draws on his experience from both the commercial and academic sectors. His commercial career spans advertising (Germany), management consulting (New Zealand) and market research (Singapore). The other half of Bodo’s career has been in academia including several senior management roles. He is currently an Associate Professor in marketing, Lead of the Disciplinary Area “Strategic Marketing and Market Innovation”, and Assistant Dean – External Engagement in the Business School at the University of Auckland.
A function of Bodo’s applied industry background, his research focuses on the intersection of academic rigour and practical relevance. Bodo’s research consists of two broad streams. Firstly, he publishes in marketing journals on contemporary topics such as marketing communication and services marketing, often with a strong consumer focus. His second stream of research is cross-disciplinary in nature, working in partnership with colleagues from the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences (FMHS). This research sits at the interface of public health and marketing and focuses on using marketing techniques for social marketing purposes (“using marketing for public good”), particularly within the contexts of alcohol, sugary beverages, and vaping.
Professor of Marketing, School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing
Massey Business School, Massey University Albany
Email: b.lang@massey.ac.nz
Phone: +64 (0) 9 923 7162
Associate Professor Giles Newton-Howes
Giles is a psychiatrist with a sub-speciality in addictions medicine. Giles works for the university of Otago and in this role, he does addictions research generally with a clinical focus.
Associate Professor, University of Otago
Email: Giles.newton-howes@otago.ac.nz
Associate Professor Andy Towers
Andy is an Associate Professor in Health Sciences and the Co-Director of the Mental Health and Addiction Practitioner Training Programme at Massey University. He teaches public health approaches to alcohol and other drug use issues. His research explores the epidemiology of alcohol and other drug use and their harms, with a particular focus on drug use in those aged 50+. He has worked on alcohol use and healthy ageing projects with international, national and community agencies with a focus on applying research findings to improve health policy and health services. He is currently on the Board of Directors for Te Pou (the mental health, disability and addiction workforce development agency) and Speed Freaks Addiction Charity.
Associate Professor in Health Sciences; College of Health; Massey University
Email: A.J.Towers@massey.ac.nz