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Robin Gauld

Robin Gauld PhD

Health Care Policy and Research
Dunedin, Dunedin, New Zealand

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Professor Gauld was previously Head of the University’s Department of Preventive and Social Medicine. He is also Co-Director of the University’s Centre for Health Systems, which spans the Business School and the Health Sciences Division, and is a Member of the British Academy of Management and of the International Public Management Network.
A social scientist whose degrees are in public policy, administration and management, he studied and taught public management at the University of Hong Kong. He was a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in 2008-09 at Boston and Harvard universities. He is considered New Zealand’s most authoritative analyst of its health care system, having spent over 20 years working in social health at Otago. Professor Gauld’s research interests include health policy and management, health services, health systems and e-Government. Much of his research and teaching draws on business concepts like management, human resources, organisational analysis and design, information science, and leadership.
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