11 Facts About Philippa Howden-Chapman

Philippa Howden-Chapman started her career in secondary-school teaching, before moving to clinical psychology, and then public health.

Philippa Howden-Chapman has conducted a number of high-profile randomised control trials into various aspects of housing and health, in the process helping to build the evidence base for the later New Zealand-wide insulation programme.

Philippa Howden-Chapman was a member of the 2012 Expert Advisory Group on Solutions to Child Poverty, which outlined a number of policy recommendations to tackle child poverty in New Zealand.

Philippa Howden-Chapman was the first woman and the first social scientist to win the prize.

Philippa Howden-Chapman is the chair of the WHO Housing and Health Guideline Development Group.

Philippa Howden-Chapman is director of He Kainga Orana, the Housing and Health Research Programme examining the link between housing quality and health, based in the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Philippa Howden-Chapman's research has had a major influence on housing, health and energy policy in New Zealand.

In November 2013, Philippa Howden-Chapman was made a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Philippa Howden-Chapman was named the Supreme Winner of NEXT Woman of the Year 2018 for her advocacy for healthy, warm and dry homes in New Zealand.

In October 2019, Philippa Howden-Chapman was appointed one of seven inaugural sesquicentennial distinguished chairs, or, at Otago University.

Philippa Howden-Chapman was awarded the 2021 Rutherford Medal for her healthy housing research.