Rate My Professor Moira Smith

Her research interests include the broad determinants of health, gathering evidence to inform policy and create supportive environments, children's health—addressing harms from unhealthy food environments, alcohol, and gambling—and oral health inequities, particularly for older people in Aotearoa New Zealand. She employs qualitative research methods, policy research, and mixed-method designs. Key publications encompass 'Children’s everyday exposure to food marketing: an objective analysis using wearable cameras' (Signal et al., 2017), 'Kids’ Cam: an objective methodology to study the world in which children live' (Signal et al., 2017), 'Quantifying the nature and extent of children’s real-time exposure to alcohol marketing in their everyday lives using wearable cameras' (Chambers et al., 2018), 'The challenge of medication-induced dry mouth in residential aged care' (Thomson et al., 2021), and recent works such as 'Real-time recording: A scoping review of methods to study children's real-time exposure to food and food marketing online' (McNaughton et al., 2026) and 'Closing the equity gap in access to early lung cancer diagnosis in Aotearoa: Key informant perspectives and recommendations for action' (Signal et al., 2025). Her contributions have advanced objective measurement techniques in public health research using wearable cameras and GPS technology.