Rate My Professor Susan Heydon

Heydon has authored and co-authored significant works, including the book Implementing a global health programme: Smallpox and Nepal (Manchester University Press, 2025), which examines smallpox eradication efforts in Nepal, and Pharmacy at Otago: The First 50 Years (with Stephen Duffull, 2013), chronicling the history of pharmacy education at her institution. Her peer-reviewed publications address critical issues such as self-medication and medicine importation among Pakistani mothers in New Zealand ('Bringing Medicine from Pakistan and Self-Medication Among Pakistani Mothers in New Zealand', 2022, with Akhtar and Norris), older people's attitudes towards regular medicines (2013, with Bagge, Tordoff, Norris), health-seeking behaviors in Indonesia (2021), access to medicines in Nepal's Annapurna region (2019, with KC and Norris), and patterns of health services and medicine utilization by first-generation Pakistani immigrants in New Zealand (2025, with Mann et al.). Additional contributions include chapters on foreign medical encounters in Nepal (2024) and informal caregiving in Pakistan (2025, with Akhtar and Bukhari). Heydon has supervised doctoral theses on pharmacy provision, patient utilization, medicines in Nepal, military pharmacy, and forensic science portrayal. She has presented on collaboration in health programmes at the School of Pharmacy Research Symposium (2024). Her work informs understandings of medicine use in migrant communities, remote areas, and historical health interventions.