Rate My Professor Sean Hogan

Sean Hogan serves as the Cohort and Assessment Manager at the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit within the Department of Psychology at the University of Otago. He holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Surrey, an MSW from the University of York, and a GIPM from Kingston Business School. With more than 15 years of experience in social work in the United Kingdom and in New Zealand since 2003, Hogan initially joined the Dunedin Study as an Interviewer during the age-32 assessment phase around 2004. He advanced to Team Leader for the age-38 assessment phase circa 2010 and was subsequently appointed to his current position, where he manages ongoing liaison with study members and provides pastoral care.

Hogan's career at the University of Otago centers on supporting the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit, which conducts the renowned Dunedin Longitudinal Study tracking the lives of over 1,000 individuals born in 1972-1973. He is a co-author on 44 publications with nearly 5,000 citations, contributing to research on biological aging, neurocognitive function, health disparities, and life-course outcomes. Key publications include "DunedinPACNI estimates the longitudinal Pace of Aging from a single brain image to track health and disease" (Nature Aging, 2025), "Disparities in the pace of biological aging among midlife adults of the same birth cohort" (Nature Aging, 2021), "The high societal costs of childhood conduct problems" (Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2018), "Clustering of health, crime and social-welfare inequality in 4 people groups" (Nature Human Behaviour, 2020), "Association of neurocognitive and physical function with gait speed in midlife" (JAMA Network Open, 2019), and "Preparedness for healthy ageing and polysubstance use in long-term cannabis users" (The Lancet Healthy Longevity, 2022). In 2017, he received the University of Otago Division of Sciences Community Engagement Award for general staff. His work supports the study's global impact on understanding human development and aging.