• Research Associate Professor of Public Health, University of Otago

Dr Amanda Kvalsvig is an epidemiologist and Research Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health, University of Otago Wellington. Her main research area is infectious disease epidemiology and since early 2020 her work has had a strong focus on Covid-19, in particular generating evidence to inform the pandemic response in Aotearoa New Zealand.

She is also Deputy Director of SYMBIOTIC, an HRC Programme led by Prof Michael Baker that investigates the links between infectious diseases and chronic illness, and she leads a component of this programme that generates evidence to inform management of infectious disease risk among people with multimorbidity.

Her work covers many infectious disease topics but a key research area is meningococcal disease, a devastating condition that needs better prevention and control in Aotearoa. Child health and wellbeing is another strong interest: her original training was in paediatrics and she is a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (London). She is deaf with cochlear implants and disability advocacy is also an important aspect of her work.

• –present Senior Research Fellow, Department of Public Health, University of Otago

• 2018 University of Otago, PhD/Epidemiology

• Member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (London)

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