Gillian Abel

	Gillian Abel Gillian Abel is a New Zealand public health researcher and as of 2021 head of the Department of Population Health at the University of Otago in Christchurch. Education After a receiving a diploma from Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town, Abel moved to New Zealand in 1997 to work at the University of Otago. She graduated from Otago in 2010 with a PhD titled "Decriminalisation: A harm minimisation and human rights approach to regulating sex work Sex work is "the exchange of sexual services, performances, or products for material compensation. It includes activities of direct physical contact between buyers and sellers as well as indirect sexual stimulation". Sex work only refers to volun ...". Career Abel's early career focused on hematology before making a career change to focus on public health. In December 2019 Abel was promoted to full professor in the Department of Population Health at Otago with effect from 1 February 2020. She is also head of the Dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	University Of Otago The University of Otago () is a public university, public research university, research collegiate university based in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. Founded in 1869, Otago is New Zealand's oldest university and one of the oldest universities in Oceania. The university was created by a committee led by Thomas Burns (minister, born 1796), Thomas Burns, and officially established by an ordinance of the Otago Provincial Council in 1869. Between 1874 and 1961 the University of Otago was a part of the federal University of New Zealand, and issued degrees in its name. Otago is known for its vibrant student life, particularly its flatting, which is often in old houses. Otago students have a long-standing tradition of naming their flats. The nickname for Otago students, "Scarfie," comes from the habit of wearing a scarf during the cold southern winters. The nickname "Scarfie" has morphed into the nickname "Breather" in recent years. The university's graduation song, ''Gaudeamus igitur, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Elisabeth Wells Jessie Elisabeth Wells is a New Zealand biostatistician, and is a professor emerita at the University of Otago, specialising in epidemiology and mental health research. Academic career Wells completed a PhD titled ''Some psychological parameters of verbal encoding'' at the University of Canterbury. Wells completed three years of postdoctoral research at the University of Toronto, before returning to New Zealand to join the faculty of Massey University. After six years at Massey, Wells moved to the University of Otago in 1980, rising to research professor in 2010. Wells is part of the Biostatistics and Computational Biology Unit at Otago, and is based at the Christchurch campus. She was appointed professor emerita in 2013. Wells is both a principal investigator and the principal statistician on the New Zealand Mental Health Survey, which was a survey of New Zealanders carried out over 2003 and 2004, examining occurrence, prevention, and treatment of mental health. Wells's resear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Cape Peninsula University Of Technology Cape Peninsula University of Technology () is a university in Cape Town, South Africa. It is the only university of technology in the Western Cape province, and is also the largest university in the province, with over 32,000 students. It was formed by merging the Cape Technikon and Peninsula Technikon as well as a few other independent colleges. History It was formed in January 2005 from the merger of the Cape Technikon and Peninsula Technikon, following years of change in the higher education landscape of South Africa. In 1993, the Technikons Act was promulgated, which allowed technikons to offer bachelor's degrees (Bachelor of Technology, B.Tech), Master's degree, master's and doctoral degrees in Technology. In March 2001, Kader Asmal (then Minister of Education) announced the National Plan on Higher Education, and in May 2002 he announced the possible merger of the two institutions, with the national working committee also recommending the University of the Western Cape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]