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Philippa Howden-Chapman is a social scientist and Professor of Public Health at the University of Otago, Wellington New Zealand. She is Director of He Kainga Oranga/Community Housing Intervention Research Programme and the New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities. She has won a number of national awards for her research into housing, energy efficiency and health, as well as for mentoring students. She is currently a member of the WHO Bonn Working Housing Group which is establishing the attributable burden of disease from housing.
She was the leader of two major community trials which have been published in the British Medical Journal, a trial of the effectiveness of retrofitted insulation, the Housing, Insulation and Health Study and a trial of the effect of installing more effective, clean heating in the homes of children with asthma, the Housing, Heating and Health Study. These studies have led to major infrastructure investments by successive governments in insulation and clean heat. The housing research group is currently carrying out two further trials, the first related to electricity grants to encourage older people who have been hospitalised to heat their homes, and the second to remediate home hazards to prevent injuries. The research group is also conducting a cohort study of all social housing tenants in New Zealand to see if rehousing people in social housing reduces hospitalisation. The Sustainable Cities research group is carrying out research about the link between housing and transport affordability and the link with urban form.
Program information: New frontiers for housing policy: education, health, employment
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