Rate My Professor Phil Hider

Associate Professor Phil Hider serves as Head of the Department of Public Health at the University of Otago, Christchurch, in the Faculty of Medicine. He is also Chair of the Population Health and Epidemiology Domain, Faculty of Medicine, and Programme Director for the MB ChB programme. A medical graduate with an MB ChB from the University of Otago, Hider practiced general practice for ten years before retraining as a public health physician. His extensive qualifications include GradCertQIHC, DPH, GradDipClinEpi, MPH and PhD (both from Otago), MMedSci in Clinical Epidemiology (University of Newcastle, Australia), MRNZCGP, FNZCPHM, and FAFPHM (RACP).

Hider's academic interests focus on evidence-based practice, quality improvement, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and health services research, with specializations in epidemiology, patient safety, and quality improvement. He co-convenes undergraduate courses in patient safety, quality improvement, epidemiology, and public health; convenes PUBH 711 Principles of Epidemiology; and contributes to several other postgraduate and medical curriculum courses. Notable professional appointments include Associate Editor for the Quality, Performance, Safety and Outcomes section of BMC Health Services Research, Deputy Chair of the Faculty Training Committee of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine, and Clinical Epidemiologist on the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee of the Health Quality and Safety Commission. He has led projects such as the National Primary Medical Care Survey and Improving Performance in New Zealand Health Care: Hospital Outcomes, funded by the Health Research Council. Key recent publications co-authored by Hider include "Ethnic differences in response rate and patient-reported outcomes at baseline and 12 months post-treatment among New Zealand men with prostate cancer" (ANZ Journal of Surgery, 2025), "Trends in community antibiotic dispensing for children and young people in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2010-2019: Implications for antimicrobial stewardship" (Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2025), "HPV vaccination in Aotearoa New Zealand: Impact of a school-based program on adolescent vaccine coverage" (Vaccine, 2025), "Ambulatory sensitive hospitalisations among people accessing mental health and addiction services" (New Zealand Medical Journal, 2025), and others.