Professor Innes Asher ONZM

Professor of Paediatrics: Child and Youth Health, University of Auckland, and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Starship Children's Health.

In 2003 she was awarded ONZM for services to Paediatrics, and in 2007 the HRC Liley Medal for her research leadership. Shortly after her appointment as Professor Innes instigated The University of Auckland’s Winter Lecture Series 2004 entitled "Are we wasting our children?"

Since 1992 she has led the worldwide children's research study: The International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood, ISAAC http://isaac.auckland.ac.nz/. In 2011 she contributed to the Global Asthma Report http://www.globalasthmareport.org/ which includes a chapter on Asthma and Poverty.

Professor Asher is on the Steering Group of the National Child and Youth Epidemiology Service http://dnmeds.otago.ac.nz/departments/womens/paediatrics/research/nzcyes/index.html, which selects, collates and disseminates timely and accurate information on the health of children and young people in New Zealand, and is a contributing author of CPAG's report Left Further Behind: How social and income inequalities damage NZ children (2011).