Nick is a Senior Research Fellow with the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health at the University of Otago. He is a quantitative social scientist specializing in using linked whole-of-population data. In particular, he is interested in the intersection between health and non-health outcomes for children and young people in Aotearoa | New Zealand. In recent years, his primary focus has been autism where he has led the establishment a stream of research in Aotearoa using population-level data.

Robin specializes in health policy, management and systems and works between the Medical and Business Schools at the University of Otago. He has worked on a variety of topics, from comparative health systems in Asia-Pacific, through to primary care organization and health information systems. He was a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in 2008/09, NZ-UK Link Foundation Visiting Professor at the University of London in 2014, and a Visiting Professor at Universiti Putra Malaysia for 2024. He was Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Otago Business School from 2016-23, and previously fulltime on the faculty in the Dunedin School of Medicine.