Rate My Professor June Atkinson

June Atkinson is a Senior Analyst in the Department of Public Health at the University of Otago, Wellington. She serves as the Datalab Manager for the Integrated Data Research Group and contributes to the Burden of Disease Epidemiology, Equity and Cost-Effectiveness (BODE³) Programme as well as the Suicide and Mental Health Research Group. Her expertise encompasses statistical programming and graphics, particularly using SAS, data management, and the development of generalisable programs and systems. Atkinson has been instrumental in various projects under the Health Inequalities Research Programme (HIRP), including extensive data linkage and analyses for the New Zealand Census Mortality Study (NZCMS) and CancerTrends. She has also participated in the Healthier Lives National Science Challenge through the Virtual Health Information Network (VHIN) project, which employs a 'big data' approach to healthcare. Additional contributions include work on Neighbourhoods and Health, SoFIE-Health, and serving on the NZDep team that produced NZDep2006 as part of the Social Indicators study. She provides SAS advisory services to colleagues within the department and externally.

Atkinson's publication record includes recent works such as McTavish et al. (2026) 'Increasing sepsis burden and persistent inequities demand national response' in The Briefing; Lacey et al. (2026) 'The distribution of socioeconomic deprivation within the Māori and European populations in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1991, 2001, and 2023' in Kōtuitui; McTavish et al. (2025) 'Temporal trends in sepsis hospitalisations and mortality in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2000-2019' in The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific; Chen et al. (2025) 'Digital contact tracing in Aotearoa New Zealand: A scan in the right direction, or a digital dead-end?' in the New Zealand Medical Journal; and Kim et al. (2025) 'A population-based study of hospitalisation for acute gastroenteric infection in Aotearoa New Zealand (2010-2019)' presented at the Infectious Diseases & Pandemic Preparedness Summit. Earlier contributions feature in studies like Nghiem et al. (2023) 'Predicting high health-cost users among people with cardiovascular disease' in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine; Hales et al. (2021) 'Long term exposure to air pollution, mortality and morbidity in New Zealand: Cohort study' in Thorax; Blakely et al. (2016) 'Ethnic inequalities in cancer incidence and mortality' in PLoS ONE; and Sarfati et al. (2010) 'Ethnic and socioeconomic trends in breast cancer incidence in New Zealand' in BMC Cancer. Her analyses support research on health inequities, disease burden, and population health trends.