Meet our panel of medical specialists

Helen is Senior Lecturer in the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care at the University of Auckland and the Director of the Vaccine Datalink and Research Group. She has a PhD in Vaccinology and is particularly interested in factors associated with vaccine safety and reactogenicity, and the performance and safety of vaccines. Helen has a blog primarily devoted to vaccines and vaccination where she often discusses vaccine myths and matters of current interest in vaccinology... read more »

Nikki is an academic General Practitioner. She currently lives in Wellington and works as a Professor for the University of Auckland in the Department of General Practice and Primary Care, and part-time as a General Practitioner in Wellington. She is the Principal Medical Advisor for Immunisation Advisory Centre (IMAC) at the University of Auckland. She is a member of several advisory groups to the Ministry of Health, PHARMAC, and government, around the national immunisation and COVID-19 vaccination programmes. Until 2020 she was a member of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunisation, which is the principle advisory group to the WHO for vaccines and immunisation. Nikki's academic interests are in primary health care, preventive child health and immunisation, and she continues to work part-time as a General Practitioner for NUHS Broadway clinic in Strathmore, Wellington... read more »