Uncertain times for health research in Aotearoa New Zealand

Tim Stokes; Felicity Goodyear-Smith

doi:10.1071/HC25162

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Uncertain times for health research in Aotearoa New Zealand

Tim Stokes

¹ ^* , Felicity Goodyear-Smith

²

+ Author Affiliations

- Author Affiliations

¹ Department of General Practice and Rural Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

² Department of General Practice & Primary Health Care, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

^* Correspondence to: tim.stokes@otago.ac.nz

Journal of Primary Health Care 17(3) 205-206 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC25162

Submitted: 4 September 2025 Accepted: 5 September 2025 Published: 18 September 2025

© 2025 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

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