Innes Asher

Guest writer

Innes Asher FRACP ONZM is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Paediatrics: Child and Youth Health, University of Auckland, was a member of the Welfare Expert Advisory Group, and is a spokesperson for the Child Poverty Action Group.

Boarded up social housing in Hamilton. (Photo: Jaycie O’Connor)

A delta health crisis thrives when it meets a crisis in housing and poverty

Decades of neglect have created the conditions where an infectious disease like Covid can flourish.

By Innes Asher | 2nd October, 2021