Rate My Professor Louise Signal

Her research centers on environmental determinants of health, emphasizing equity for Māori, Pacific, and low-income communities. Core areas encompass the politics of health and health equity, obesity prevention, and addressing harms from alcohol and sun exposure. She utilizes qualitative methods, policy research, and mixed-method designs. As principal investigator, she led the Kids'Cam project, employing wearable automated cameras to capture children's everyday environments in New Zealand and Tonga, highlighting exposures to unhealthy food, alcohol, and gambling marketing. Additional projects investigate food environments in low-income neighborhoods and children's real-time online exposure to food marketing. Key publications include 'Piecing together piecemeal regulation: Stakeholder insights into joint statutory regulation to reduce children's unhealthy commodity marketing exposure in Aotearoa New Zealand' (2026, Health Promotion Journal of Australia), 'Real-time recording: A scoping review of methods to study children's real-time exposure to food and food marketing online' (2026, Appetite), 'Health promotion in the Asia Pacific: Celebrating success stories and tackling challenges' (2025, Health Promotion Journal of Australia), and contributions to reports on healthier futures for Aotearoa. Her work informs public health policy on commercial determinants of inequities.