Rate My Professor Tristram Ingham

Ingham has received the Companion of the King’s Service Order (KSO) in the New Year Honours for services to survivors of abuse in care, the Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) in 2024 for services to the disability community, honorary fellowship of the New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine, and memberships in the Institute of Directors New Zealand and Royal Society Te Apārangi. He chairs Te Ao Mārama Aotearoa Trust, Foundation for Equity and Research New Zealand, and co-chairs My Life My Voice Charitable Trust, while serving as a board member of Te Kāhū Hauora – Health Quality & Safety Commission. He led the development of the Whāia Te Ao Mārama Māori Disability Action Plan 2018-2022 and contributed the COVID-19 'bubble' concept. Key publications include 'Cord-blood 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and risk of respiratory infection, wheezing, and asthma' (2011, cited 740 times), 'Breastfeeding protects against current asthma up to 6 years of age' (2012, cited 179 times), 'Damp mouldy housing and early childhood hospital admissions for acute respiratory infection: a case control study' (2019, cited 109 times), 'Poipoia te kākano kia puāwai: The operationalisation of Māori data sovereignty in Aotearoa' (2026), and 'The undercounting of Indigenous Māori imprisoned by the New Zealand carceral state' (2025). His work has garnered over 2500 citations, influencing public health policy and academic discourse on health inequities.