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Tēnā koe
Response to your request for official information Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) to Manatū Hauora
(the Ministry of Health) on 21 June 2023 for information regarding COVID-19 research projects.
You requested:
“Could I please be provided for the 10 below projects funded under the
COVID-19 and National Immunisation Programme research projects the progress reports submitted at three-, six- and nine-month intervals - as available. And the final report as available for any of them (in lieu of a final report
- dates expected it is to be submitted for each project).
The research projects are:
•
Child vaccine hesitancy: Predictors of parents' COVID-19 vaccine uptake for
their children, impact on vaccine uptake of the national immunisation schedule, and translational findings for equitable immunisation outcomes among children in Aotearoa New Zealand
•
COVID-19 Vaccine Evaluation (COVE) in Aotearoa New Zealand •
Does the increased attention to COVID-19 vaccine-related side effects
change reporting behaviour for a comparable adult vaccine?
•
Examining vaccine effectiveness of two and three doses of Comirnaty mRNA
vaccine during the 2022 Omicron wave in Aotearoa
•
Impact of COVID-19 on childhood vaccine uptake and ways forward for
equitable immunisation services
•
Impact of the COVID-19 Delta-Omicron outbreak on the health and
psychosocial wellbeing of New Zealanders living in aged residential care
•
Impact of COVID-19 on Pacific peoples’ vaccination beliefs and behaviours,
including Pacific COVID-19 + Well Child immunisation rates
•
The Burden of Long Covid in Aotearoa New Zealand: Establishing a Registry •
The role of digital contact tracing to support improved pandemic responses
•
The role of vaccine mandates in New Zealand's COVID-19 response”
16 Documents have been identified within the scope of your request. The documents are
outlined in Appendix 1 of this letter and copies enclosed. Where information is withheld under
section 9 of the Act, I have considered the countervailing public interest in releasing the
information and consider it does not outweigh the need to withhold at this time
I trust this information fulfils your request. If you wish to discuss any aspect of your request with
us, including this decision, please feel free to contact the OIA Services Team on:
[email address].
Under section 28(3) of the Act, you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to review any
decisions made under this request. The Ombudsman may be contacted by email at:
[email address] or by calling 0800 802 602.
Please note that this response, with your personal details removed, may be published on the
Manatū Hauora website at:
www.health.govt.nz/about-ministry/information-releases/responses-
official-information-act-requests. Nāku noa, nā
Dean Rutherford
Deputy Director-General
Evidence, Research and Innovation
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Appendix 1: List of documents for release
#
Date
Document details
Decision on
release
1
2022-COVID-19-and-national-immunisation-
Some information
programme-research-projects-progress report June withheld under
2023
section 9(2)(a) of
the Act to protect
2022 COVID-19 and National Immunisation
2
1 June 2023
the privacy of
Programme Research Projects - Covid vaccine
natural persons.
mandates update June 2023
2022 COVID-19 and National Immunisation
3
Programme Research Projects - Progress
Declaration Reporting Guidelines
2022-covid-19-and-national-immunisation-
4
programme-research-projects-progress-declaration-
reporting-guidelines June 2023 R Braund
2 June 2023
GCheung Second Progress Report updated
5
2June2023
1 June 2023
GCheung Third Progress Report 2June2023 version
6
2 (1)
Interim Progress Report_imms_9Jun final (2)
7
Interim Report 1 December PROP-060 (1)
8
Interim Report-June 2023-PROP-060
9
31 May 2023 Progress Report 310523 (1)
10
1 June 2023
VUW - PROP-051 - progress report period June
11
2023
20230522_COVID-19 NIP 3rd 3month report (April-
12
June2023)
20230403Final_COVID-19 NIP 2nd 3month report
13
(Jan-Mar2023)
2022 COVID-19 and National Immunisation
14
Programme Research Projects - Covid vaccine
mandates update 1 - Mar 2023
2022-COVID-19-and-national-immunisation-
15
programme-research-projects-progress report
March 2023
2022-COVID-19-and-national-immunisation-
16
programme-research-projects-progress report
December 2022
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