Rate My Professor Robin Gauld

Professor Robin Gauld serves in the Department of Public Health at the University of Otago's Dunedin School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Health Sciences Division. He earned a PhD in public administration from the University of Hong Kong, a master's degree with distinction, and a first-class honours degree from Victoria University of Wellington. His academic career includes lecturing and research positions at the University of Hong Kong and City University of Hong Kong, as well as teaching roles at the University of Texas and Harvard University. At Otago, he previously headed the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine and, from late 2016, was Dean of the Otago Business School and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Commerce) in an honorary appointment. He directs the Centre for Health Systems and Technology, spanning the Medical and Business Schools, and was co-director of the Centre for Health Systems. Gauld was a 2008–2009 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow affiliated with Boston University and Harvard University and holds a Senior Fellowship at the Boston University Health Policy Institute. In 2018, Victoria University of Wellington awarded him a Higher Doctorate. He belongs to the British Academy of Management and the International Public Management Network.

Gauld's research focuses on comparative health policy, health systems and quality improvement, clinical governance, primary care, population-based health funding, and health information technology. Over two decades at Otago, he has established himself as New Zealand's foremost analyst of its health care system. His scholarly output exceeds 85 peer-reviewed journal articles, alongside numerous books and chapters. Key works include The New Health Policy (Open University Press, 2009), recipient of First Prize in the Health and Social Care category at the 2010 British Medical Association Medical Book Awards; Revolving Doors: New Zealand's Health Reforms - the Continuing Saga (Institute of Policy Studies and Health Services Research Centre, 2009); The Age of Supported Independence, co-authored with Beatrice Hale and Patrick Barrett (Springer, 2010); Health Care Systems in Asia and Europe, co-edited with Christian Aspalter and Uchida Yasuo (Routledge, 2011); and Democratic Governance in Health, co-authored with Miriam Laugesen (Otago University Press, 2012). He co-authored Dangerous Enthusiasms, adopted as core reading for a Harvard Kennedy School of Government course on Knowledge Management.