Karen Witten | |
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| Alma mater | University of Auckland |
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| Fields | public health |
| Institutions | University of Auckland Massey University |
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Karen Witten is a New Zealand public health academic. She is currently a full professor at Massey University. [1]
Witten's 2005 PhD geography thesis from the University of Auckland concerned the six diverse suburban localities in Auckland and the implications of living there for parents raising children and the impacts on health and health inequality. The title of her thesis was Placing caregiving: parenting in diverse localities in suburban Auckland. [2]
Witten has worked at the University of Auckland [3] and Massey University, where her work has continued to relate to geographic determiners of health and health inequality, studying things such as fast-food locations, open spaces [4] and bicycling. [1]
Massey University is a university based in Palmerston North, New Zealand, with significant campuses in Albany and Wellington. Massey University has approximately 30,883 students, 13,796 of whom are extramural or distance-learning students, making it New Zealand's second largest university when not counting international students. Research is undertaken on all three campuses, and more than 3,000 international students from over 100 countries study at the university.
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