Rate My Professor Alice Kim

Alice Kim is a Senior Research Fellow and Biostatistician in the Biostatistics Group – Ratonga Tauanga Koiora at the University of Otago, Wellington, part of the Faculty of Medicine. She joined the group in 2021 and provides biostatistical and methodological input to various health research projects across medicine, psychology, and public health. Her research interests focus on the applications of epidemiology and statistics in these fields. Kim holds a PhD in Health Sciences from the University of Canterbury, an MSc in Statistics from the University of Auckland, and studied Economics at the University of Auckland and Harvard University. Prior to her academic role, she worked in the private sector, including as a logistics accounts investigator for Fonterra Group and as a transfer pricing and international tax consultant for EY New Zealand Limited.

Kim is a member of the WHO Thematic Platform for Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management Research Network, where she has led and co-authored research methods chapters on natural experiment design and health disaster and emergency research data. Her key publications include McTavish et al. (2026), 'Increasing sepsis burden and persistent inequities demand national response,' in The Briefing; Teng et al. (2026), 'Do tax waivers reduce prices and increase imports of healthy foods? Interrupted time-series analyses from Tonga,' in BMJ Public Health; Couchman et al. (2026), 'Clozapine and N-desmethylclozapine (norclozapine) proficiency testing data, 2012-2024,' in Therapeutic Drug Monitoring; Flanagan et al. (2026), 'Adverse reactions to clozapine: Plasma clozapine in relation to smoking status,' in Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology; McTavish et al. (2025), 'Temporal trends in sepsis hospitalisations and mortality in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2000-2019: A population-based study,' in Lancet Regional Health: Western Pacific; Chambers et al. (2026), 'A National-Scale Historical Assessment of Nitrate in Public Drinking Water Supplies in New Zealand,' in Water Environment Research; and Pourzand et al. (2025), 'Examining campylobacteriosis disease notification rates: Association with water supply characteristics,' in Environmental Research. These contributions address critical public health issues such as sepsis inequities, food policy impacts, medication safety, water quality, and infectious diseases.