2OO9 – 2O1O - Faculty of Dentistry - University of Otago

JOHN BROUGHTON
ED JP BSc (Massey) BDS PhD PGDipComDent DipGrad
(Otago) (Mäori Health)
(Joint with Preventive and Social Medicine)
Oral Diagnostic and Surgical Sciences
Associate Professor
Research activities have included Mäori oral health, Injury
Prevention (The NZ Drivers Study), New Zealand Mäori
Theatre and Mäori taonga (treasured items) in the Otago
Museum.
Associate Professor Broughton is the Principal Investigator
for an International Collaborative Indigenous Health
Research Partnership grant from the HRC: “Reducing
disease burden and health inequalities arising from chronic
dental disease among Indigenous children: an early
childhood caries intervention” ($2.4M).
The important approach in his Mäori health research
has been the utilisation of a kaupapa Mäori methodology
which he developed and successfully applied in his PhD
thesis. This kaupapa Mäori methodology is being utilised in
Associate Professor Broughton’s current research work,
which he has presented at numerous hui and conferences.
His involvement with the New Zealand Drivers Study
has been to be responsible for aspects of tikanga Mäori
(Mäori customs) in the research methodologies.
With regard to New Zealand Mäori theatre, Associate
Professor Broughton was the subject of a symposium in
Auckland in November 2010, facilitated by Playmarket, in
which his play, “Michael James Manaia” was discussed and
performed. This play will be republished in 2011 and a
national tour has been scheduled for 2012.
Mäori taonga in the Otago Museum: Associate Professor
Broughton is a co-curator for a major exhibition which is
to travel to the Shanghai Museum in China in 2011.
Research and Collaboration
Te Ao Mäori: Mäori Treasures from the Otago Museum,
New Zealand: As a member of the Mäori Advisory
Committee of the Otago Museum, Associate Professor
Broughton proposed that a new exhibition of taonga
(treasured items) from the Museum collections be
created. This was approved by the Board of the Museum.
It was decided that this exhibition would travel to China
and be exhibited in the main gallery of the Shanghai
Museum. As a co-curator of the exhibition, Associate
Professor Broughton has collaborated with the Otago
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Museum curators and the directors of the Shanghai
Museum to select the 350 items and has undertaken
considerable research for the associated exhibition
publication. The exhibition will open in July 2011 in
Shanghai.
An international collaboration with Indigenous oral health
research teams in Australia and Canada: Reducing disease
burden and health inequalities arising from chronic dental
disease among Indigenous children: an early childhood
caries intervention. The New Zealand partnership of the
project is being conducted in collaboration with Raukura
Hauora O Tainui and the Waikato-Tainui College for
Research and Development.
Recent Publications
Parker EJ, Jamieson LM, Broughton J, Albino J, Lawrence
HP, Roberts-Thomson K. The oral health of Indigenous
children: A review of four nations.. Journal of Paediatrics
and Child Health 46: 483–486 (2010).
Jamieson L, Broughton J, Lawrence H. Reducing dental
disease burden and oral health inequalities among
Indigenous populations. Editorial, International Dental
Journal 60: 211 (2010).
Broughton JR. An oral health intervention for the
Mäori Indigenous population of New Zealand: Oranga
niho Mäori (Mäori oral health) as a component of
the undergraduate dental curriculum in New Zealand.
International Dental Journal 60: 223-228 (2010).
Fairhall TJ, Thomson WM, Kieser JA, Broughton JR, Cullinan
MP, Seymour GJ. Home or away? Differences between
home- and clinic-based dental examinations for older
people. Gerodontology 26: 179-186 (2009).