Ngaire Kerse MBChB, PhD

Professor Ngaire Kerse is Head of School of Population Health and a Professor of General Practice and Primary Health Care. A graduate of Otago Medical School, Ngaire is a general practitioner with training in geriatric medicine and she also has a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne in health promotion for older people.

She is recognized as an international expert in three interrelated areas of research: maximizing health for older people; falls and older people; and the impact of physical activity on the development of disability. She is a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice. Her Fellowship in 2002-2003 explored, from the perspective of older people and their families, the extent to which cultural differences related to health and health care beliefs affected care delivery in residential care settings. Ngaire was awarded a Distinguished Fellowship of the Royal New Zealand College of GPs in 2011.