Rate My Professor Brett Maclennan

Brett Maclennan is a Lecturer in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Otago. He possesses qualifications of MPH and PhD and has engaged in health-related research projects in a quantitative capacity for nearly 20 years. His career trajectory at the University of Otago includes previous appointments as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Injury Prevention Research Unit and Senior Research Fellow in the Ngāi Tahu Māori Health Research Unit. Currently, he teaches applied biostatistics, convening PUBH 725 Applied Biostatistics 1 - Fundamentals and PUBH 726 Applied Biostatistics 2 - Regression Methods. Affiliated with Taranaki Iwi, his work particularly addresses improving Māori health outcomes through evidence-based policy and interventions.

Maclennan's academic interests encompass community involvement in health policy development, rigorous evaluation of health policies and interventions, and quantitative analysis in public health. His research has focused on the impacts of alcohol policy changes on consumption patterns and associated harms, long-term health-related quality of life following injuries with emphasis on Māori cohorts, trends in work-related fatal injuries over decades, and service integration in district health boards. He has been involved in prominent studies such as the Prospective Outcomes of Injury Study (POIS-10) and the Evaluation of New Zealand's Alcohol Laws (ENZAL).

Key publications include: Maclennan, B., Wyeth, E., & Derrett, S. (2024). Health-related quality of life following trauma: Prevalence of problems and factors associated with six-month outcomes in a New Zealand cohort. Injury; Derrett, S. et al. (2024). New Zealand’s Prospective Outcomes of Injury Study—10 years on (POIS-10): Descriptive outcomes to 12 years post-injury. Injury Prevention; Penno, E. et al. (2023). How did New Zealand's regional district health board groupings work to improve service integration and health outcomes: A realist evaluation. BMJ Open; Maclennan, B., Derrett, S., & Wyeth, E. (2023). Health-related quality of life 12 years after injury: Prevalence and predictors of outcomes in a cohort of injured Māori. Quality of Life Research; Connor, J. et al. (2021). Changes in the incidence of assault after restrictions on late-night alcohol sales, New Zealand 2009-2016. Addiction.