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Warwick Brunton

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Dr Warwick Brunton is an honorary senior lecturer in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at the Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago. He is a health historian and held various management and policy-making positions in the Department / Ministry of Health from 1972-96.

The Covid-19 testing facility in Ōtara town centre, Auckland, in 2020 (Photo: Fiona Goodall/Getty Images)

We need and deserve fit-for-purpose public health policy

New Zealand's public health infrastructure has swung wildly between comprehensive and chaos over the past century.

By Warwick Brunton | 9th November, 2020