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University of Otago

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5.04/23/2026

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About Phillipa

Phillipa Barnes is a Research Fellow in the Department of Medicine at the University of Otago, Wellington. She holds a BA and a DPH. Her main research interests focus on respiratory and allergic disease health in children. Throughout her career, she has contributed to significant projects including a prospective infant cohort study aimed at identifying childhood risk factors for asthma and allergies, a randomised controlled trial of probiotics in the prevention of eczema, and a study comparing exhaled nitric oxide measurements from the Medisoft HypAir FENO and Aerocrine NIOX analysers. Currently, she works on three Health Research Council-funded initiatives: the HOME Study, which examines housing factors associated with new-onset wheezing in children; the Probiotics in Pregnancy study, investigating whether probiotics administered to mothers early in pregnancy prevent eczema in babies; and the Rhino Study, evaluating simple interventions to children's bedroom environments to reduce rhinovirus infections.