Liggins #PhD student & #midwife, Caitlin Woods, was a finalist in the UoA #3MT competition. Watch her brilliant presentation, “Delivering the Next Generation: Exploring the Impact if Paid Student Employment Models in Midwifery”, to learn about her work: bit.ly/3HwBXHY

Congratulations to Liggins Professor Caroline Crowther, who has received the prestigious Gluckman Medal, the University of Auckland’s highest honour for health research excellence. 👏 Her work has transformed maternal and perinatal health worldwide. Read: bit.ly/46dq0Ae

What a day! Thank you to everyone who visited us at Mānawa Mai Open Day 2025 to learn about the work we do at the Liggins Institute. It was exciting to see your passion for the possibilities of future research with us, even if it’s a few years down the line.

If you missed our August public lecture, the video is now online. Discover how #AI and #genomics are transforming #healthcare, improving diagnosis, and enabling personalised treatments that save lives. Watch now: youtu.be/agArQDWq5E4.

Calling all Liggins #PhD students! Want to get your doctoral research noticed – and win great prizes? Here’s your chance. Enter your academic poster or research image in the 2025 Research Showcase by 10 October. Learn more: auckland.ac.nz/research-showc…

Are you a researcher, clinician, student or data manager working with research data? If you’ve never used REDCap before, but want to learn how, join ‘Building a strong foundation in REDCap’ online on Thurs 25 Sept. Free for University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau staff & students. shortcourses.auckland.ac.nz/courses/founda…

Justin O’Sullivan’s Raising the Bar talk is LIVE! 🎤 ⚡ "Swab, Sequence, Surprise! How science is personalising your health" will challenge everything you thought you knew about health. 👉 Watch now: open.spotify.com/episode/7z12MI… #RaisingTheBar #PrecisionHealth #Genomics

Good luck to everyone taking part in #HealtheX tomorrow! 🎉 We’re proud to see our Liggins students presenting alongside talented peers from across University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau - showcasing the depth of health research that’s shaping the future of wellbeing in Aotearoa NZ and beyond.

AI is reshaping healthcare — from diagnostics to patient monitoring. Find out how to stay ahead of the change at Ignite, University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau's free speaker series on leading with confidence in an AI-powered world. Thu 2 Oct | Prof Sir Ashley Bloomfield + more response.auckland.ac.nz/ignite

💡What if we could predict chronic lung disease years before symptoms appear? Liggins Institute researcher Dr Roan Zaied is using machine learning to do just that. Read the full story, ’Using AI to reshape lung disease diagnosis’: bit.ly/420feuP #PrecisionMedicine

Liggins researchers believe a capsule of healthy gut bugs could change the future of obesity treatment. Prof Wayne Cutfield recently spoke to Kathryn Ryan on RNZ about the results of their follow-up study on FMT and adolescent obesity. Listen now: bit.ly/48y0qYa

Liggins researcher Dr Roan Zaied was recently interviewed on 95bFM Ready Steady Learn about her work on improving early detection of the serious lung disease #COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) using machine learning #AI. Whakarongo mai nei! bit.ly/4mssaRt

It was wonderful to host ⁦Casey Costello MP⁩ at ⁦Liggins Institute UoA⁩ today talking about #preterm birth & carosikacollaborative.co.nz. So much opportunity to do better for our whānau & tiniest pēpi. News on our latest initiative auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2025/0…

Dr Anna Brooks and lived-experience researcher Rohan Botica are working to understand complex chronic conditions involving immune dysfunction, including #LongCovid, with the aim of improving diagnosis and clinical care. Read more in our news story: bit.ly/3W18RE0

Prof Wayne Cutfield was recently interviewed on CBC/Radio-Canada about the #GutBugs team’s follow-up study into the benefits of fecal microbiota transplants for obese teenagers. Web bit.ly/4gC9jC1, Spotify bit.ly/4nCqVjI, Apple apple.co/46OH3ZH.

Liggins Institute Professor Katie Groom, Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist at Auckland City Hospital, talks to RNZ about the need for more support so Carosika Collaborative can continue its work saving babies across Aotearoa. Listen now: bit.ly/4gPE3Qi

Last week, we had the pleasure of hosting Casey Costello MP for a valuable kōrero about the challenges of #PretermBirth care in Aotearoa and how the #CarosikaCollaborative can help overcome them. Read, 'Preterm birth initiative at risk as funding ends': bit.ly/4nl9UuB

Our tendency to simplify the complex factors that influence pregnancy often results in a myopic focus on individual behaviour, says Liggins Institute PhD candidate, Jillian Hildreth. Read, ‘The (mostly) well-meaning war on pregnancy’, on Newsroom. 🔗 bit.ly/42PQ3ve

Congratulations to Liggins student Mohammad Shahbaz, who successfully defended his PhD oral examination last month. His thesis assessed the use of data linkage for outcome assessment in long-term follow-ups of NZ antenatal corticosteroid trials. Well done, Mohammad! 👏

Last Thursday, we celebrated Prof Caroline Crowther’s incredible career in maternal fetal medicine at the Liggins Institute symposium: Ensuring women’s and babies’ future best health. Thank you to all speakers & attendees! 📸 Highlights below.