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Ko Te Whakakitenga me Te Ahunga o Te Niwha Our Vision and Mission

Our Vision is to ensure Aotearoa New Zealand's response to current, ongoing and emerging infectious disease threats is characterised domestically and internationally as strong, prepared and unified.

Our Mission is to ensure that our Aotearoa, New Zealand has world-class research capability to support our preparedness for current and future infectious disease challenges.

Te Niwha

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As the Te Niwha funded research progresses, publications are starting to come out. You can now follow Te Niwha’s Google Scholar page to keep up to date with new publications from our researchers.

 

>> High dose, subcutaneous injections of benzathine penicillin G (SCIP) to prevent rheumatic fever: A single arm, phase IIa trial of safety and pharmacokinetics
J Bennett et al - Journal of Infection

>> Highlights of 2024: Advances in Germinal Centers
TE Pankhurst, MA Linterman - Wiley Online Library

>> Preparing for the next pandemic: insights from Aotearoa New Zealand’s Covid-19 response
NP French et al. - The Lancet Regional Health–Western Pacific, 2025

>> Immunogenicity and safety of measles-mumps-rubella vaccine delivered by the aerosol, intradermal and intramuscular routes in previously vaccinated young adults: a randomized controlled trial protocol
S Saha et al. - PloS one, 2025

>> A national assessment of the drinking water infrastructure deficit in New Zealand by territorial authority and sociodemographic characteristics
M Puente-Sierra et al. - Australasian Journal of Water Resources, 2025

>> Avian influenza virus surveillance across New Zealand and its subantarctic islands detects H1N9 in migratory shorebirds, but not 2.3. 4.4 b HPAI H5N1
SJ Waller et al. - Influenza and other respiratory viruses, 2025

 

Te Niwha

Ngā Pourangahau Research Leaders

CONTRACT HOLDER 
TO THE FOLLOWING TE NIWHA PROJECTS:

>> Reducing barriers, improving lives: A new approach to rheumatic fever treatment

>>  Creating simple blood and urine tests to detect infections using microbial DNA

>> Infectious disease surveillance in Aotearoa

>> Tāngata Whaikaha Māori Probabilistic Panel Survey Research

>> The role of improved surveillance and modelling to support prevention and control of infectious diseases in Aotearoa

>> Mahi Tahi: Decreasing transmission and improving diagnosis of Tuberculosis to reduce health inequities

>> A genomics-informed approach to avian influenza virus surveillance

>> Towards elimination: improving the effectiveness and safety of leprosy treatment in the Pacific

>> AMR reference laboratory and pathogen genomics capability for Fiji

RESEARCH PARTNER
TO THE FOLLOWING TE NIWHA PROJECTS:

>> Te Whata Kura - a national antibiotic guideline for Aotearoa

>> Māngai Wai Māori: Ngāi Tahu drinking water programme

>> COVID-19 Needle Length Study

>> Community-based Carriage Study

CONTRACT HOLDER 
TO THE FOLLOWING TE NIWHA PROJECTS:

>> Wastewater Testing at the Border & Building

>> Rapid testing for infectious diseases in the community 

>> Strengthening public health surveillance of emerging diseases for communities and Māori 

>> Community-based Carriage study

>> Water security risks from responding to HPAI and other livestock emerging diseases

RESEARCH PARTNER
TO THE FOLLOWING TE NIWHA PROJECTS:

>> Influenza-like Illnesses - Detection and Monitoring In Community Pharmacies

>> A genomics-informed approach to avian influenza virus surveillance

>> COVID-19 Needle Length Study




CONTRACT HOLDER 
TO THE FOLLOWING TE NIWHA PROJECTS:

>> Broad-spectrum antiviral potential within anti-cancer drugs

>> Preventing recurrent admissions for preschool wheeze respiratory infections – ARROW (Strategic)

>> Te Whata Kura - a national antibiotic guideline for Aotearoa

>> Pacific Youth, Infectious Disease Risk, and Social Media in Aotearoa




RESEARCH PARTNER
TO THE FOLLOWING TE NIWHA PROJECTS:

>> Wastewater Testing at the Border & Building

>> Reducing barriers, improving lives: A new approach to rheumatic fever treatment>

>> Community-based Carriage Study

>> Mahi Tahi: Decreasing transmission and improving diagnosis of Tuberculosis to reduce health inequities

>> Exploring new anti-microbial agents

>> Tāngata Whaikaha Māori Probabilistic Panel Survey Research

CONTRIBUTOR 
TO THE FOLLOWING TE NIWHA PROJECTS:

>> Likely future pandemic agents and scenarios

>> Mahi Tahi: Decreasing transmission and improving diagnosis of Tuberculosis to reduce health inequities

CONTRIBUTOR
TO THE FOLLOWING TE NIWHA PROJECTS:

>> Finding the best treatments for severe influenza

>> COVID-19 Needle Length Study

>> Influenza-like Illnesses - Detection and monitoring In Community Pharmacies

CONTRIBUTOR 
TO THE FOLLOWING TE NIWHA PROJECTS:

>> Exploring new anti-microbial agents

>> Rapid point-of-use testing for infectious diseases in the community

>> A genomics-informed approach to avian influenza virus surveillance

CONTRIBUTOR 
TO THE FOLLOWING TE NIWHA PROJECTS:

>>  Māngai Wai Māori: Ngāi Tahu drinking water programme 

>> Using models to understand and respond to the uneven impact of infectious diseases and future pandemic threats



OTHER CONTRACT HOLDERS
TO TE NIWHA PROJECT (for project details, click on each logo):

   

 

Te Niwha
 

>>  Patient reported preferences for IV or oral antibiotics in the treatment of S. aureus bloodstream infection

>>  Reducing barriers, improving lives: A new approach to rheumatic fever treatment

TE WHATU ORA
TE TOKA TUMAI AUCKLAND 

>> Finding the best treatments for severe influenza

>>  Preventing recurrent admissions for preschool wheeze respiratory infections – ARROW

>>Te Whata Kura - a national antibiotic guideline for Aotearoa

TE WHATU ORA
WAITEMATĀ 

>> Preventing recurrent admissions for preschool wheeze respiratory infections – ARROW

 

TE WHATU ORA 
COUNTIES MANUKAU 

>> COVID-19 Needle Length Study

>> Preventing recurrent admissions for preschool wheeze respiratory infections – ARROW

 

TE WHATU ORA 
WAIKATO 

>> Lifting immunisation rates in vulnerable communities within Waikato and Counties Manukau regions

>> Preventing recurrent admissions for preschool wheeze respiratory infections – ARROW

TE WHATU ORA
HAUORA A TOI BAY OF OF PLENTY 

>> Preventing recurrent admissions for preschool wheeze respiratory infections – ARROW

 

TE WHATU ORA 
CAPITAL, COAST AND HUTT VALLEY 

>> Patient reported preferences for IV or oral antibiotics in the treatment of S. aureus bloodstream infection

>> Preventing recurrent admissions for preschool wheeze respiratory infections – ARROW

>>Reducing barriers, improving lives: A new approach to rheumatic fever treatment


TE WHATU ORA
WAITAHA CANTERBURY 

>> Patient reported preferences for IV or oral antibiotics in the treatment of S. aureus bloodstream infection

>> Te Whata Kura - a national antibiotic guideline for Aotearoa

>>A genomics-informed approach to avian influenza virus surveillance

 

OTHER RESEARCH PARTNERS 
TO TE NIWHA PROJECT (for project details, click on each logo):