Lucy Telfar-Barnard

PhD, DELE(Bas), NAATI 3
Senior Research Fellow, University of Otago, Wellington
Lucy Telfar-Barnard

Lucy's research interests cover seasonal and cold-temperature-related morbidity and mortality; respiratory disease; tenancy law and the regulation of rental housing quality; New Zealand housing construction types, their distribution, classification and associated health outcomes; and novel epidemiological uses of administrative datasets. She is currently measuring New Zealand’s respiratory disease burden, and assessing the effect of mechanised home ventilation systems on health outcomes.

Key publications

  1. Fraser B Aspinall C Chisholm E Ombler J Bierre S Telfar-Barnard L Johnson E Howden-Chapman P
    2024
    A Snapshot of a Fragmented Landscape: Homelessness Law and Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand
    Chris Bevan (ed). Global Perspectives on Homelessness Law & Policy, Routledge, 2024
    10.4324/9781003274056-35
  2. Fyfe, C.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Douwes, J.
    (2021).
    Association between home insulation and hospital admission rates: Retrospective cohort study using linked data from a national intervention programme.
    BMJ,
    371, m4571.
  3. Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Pierse, N.
    (2020).
    Renting poorer housing: Ecological relationships between tenure, dwelling condition, and income, and housing-sensitive hospitalisations in a developed country.
    Health Education and Behavior,
    47(6), 816-824
  4. Chisholm, E.
    Keall, M.
    Bennett, J.
    Marshall, A.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Thornley, L.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2019).
    Why don’t owners improve their homes? Results from a survey following a housing warrant-of-fitness assessment for health and safety.
    Australian and NZ Journal of Public Health,
    43, 221-227.
    Download document
    Housing-WOF_ANZJPH_paper.pdf
  5. Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Bennett, J.
    Robinson, A. Hailes, A.
    Ombler, J.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2019).
    Evidence base for a housing warrant of fitness.
    Sage Open Medicine,
    7, 1-17.
  6. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Chisholm, E.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Viggers, H.
    O'Sullivan, K.
    Bennett, J.
    Bierre, S.
    Preval, N.
    Tiatia, R.
    Ombler, J.
    Amore, K.
    Rivera-Muñoz, G. Davies, C.
    Aspinall, C.
    Oliver, J.
    Baker, M.
    Keall, M.
    Crane, J.
    Pierse, N.
    (2017).
    Housing, energy and health in resilient cities.
    Cities in New Zealand: Preferences, patterns and possibilities,
    Howden-Chapman, L. Early & J. Ombler (Eds.), (pp. 95-106). Wellington, New Zealand: Steele Roberts Aotearoa.
  7. Preval, N.
    Keall, M.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Grimes, A.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2017).
    Impact of improved insulation and heating on mortality risk of older cohort members with prior cardiovascular or respiratory hospitalisations.
    BMJ Open,
    7, e018079. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018079
  8. Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Bennett, J.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Jacobs, D.E. Ormandy, D. Cutler-Welsh, M. Preval N.
    Baker, M.
    Keall, M.
    (2017).
    Measuring the Effect of Housing Quality Interventions: The Case of the New Zealand “Rental Warrant of Fitness”.
    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health,
    2017, 4.
  9. O'Sullivan, K.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Viggers, H.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2016).
    Child and Youth Fuel Poverty: Assessing the Known and Unknown.
    People, Place and Policy,
    10(1), 77-87. DOI: 10.3351/ppp.0010.0001.0006
  10. Grimes, A. Preval, N. Young, C. Arnold, R. Denne, T.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
    (2016).
    Does Retrofitted Insulation Reduce Household Energy Use? Theory and Practice.
    The Energy Journal,
    37 (4).
  11. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Viggers, H.
    Chapman, R.
    O'Sullivan, K.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Lloyd, B.
    (2012)..
    Tackling cold housing and fuel poverty in New Zealand: a review of policies, research and health impacts.
    Energy Policy,
    49, 134-142.
  12. Grimes, A. Young, C. Arnold, R. Denne, T.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Preval, N.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
    (2012).
    Warming Up New Zealand: Impacts of the New Zealand Insulation Fund on Metered Household Energy Use.
    A paper prepared for the Ministry of Economic Development.
    Download document
    NZIF_Energy_report-Final.pdf
  13. Baker, M.
    Goodyear, R.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2012).
    The distribution of household crowding in New Zealand: An analysis based on 1991 to 2006 Census data.
    He Kāinga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme, University of Otago.
    Download document
    HH-Crowding-in-NZ-25-May-2013.pdf
  14. Baker, M.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Kvalsvig, A. Verrall, A. Zhang, J.
    Keall, M.
    Wilson, N. Wall, T.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2012).
    Increasing incidence and inequalities in infectious diseases in a developed country.
    The Lancet,
    D-11-03603R2.
  15. Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Preval, N.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Arnold, R. Young, C. Grimes, A. Denne, T.
    (2011).
    The impact of retrofitted insulation and new heaters on health services utilisation and costs, pharmaceutical costs and mortality; Evaluation of Warm Up New Zealand: Heat Smart.
    A report prepared for the Ministry of Economic Development.
    Download document
    NZIF_Health_report-Final.pdf
  16. Grimes, A. Denne, T.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Arnold, R.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Preval, N. Young, C.
    (2011).
    Cost Benefit Analysis of the Warm Up New Zealand : Heat Smart Programme.
    A report prepared for Ministry of Economic Development.
    Download document
    NZIF_CBA_report-Final-Revised-0612.pdf
  17. Baker, M.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Zhang, J. Verrall, A.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2010).
    Close-contact infectious diseases in New Zealand: Trends and ethnic inequalities in hospitalisations, 1989-2008.
    A report prepared for the Māori Health Directorate, Ministry of Health.
    Download document
    Close-Contact-IDs-in-NZ-June-2010.pdf
  18. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Keall, M.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Baker, M.
    Zhang, J. Verrall, A. Lanumata, T.
    (2010).
    Close-contact infectious diseases in New Zealand: Trends and ethnic inequalities in hospitalisations,1989 to 2008 - 2nd Edition
    He Kāinga Oranga/Housing & Health Research Programme University of Otago, Wellington.

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    Close-contact-IDs-2nd-edition1.pdf
  19. Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Baker, M.
    Hales, S.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2008).
    Excess winter morbidity and mortality: still a lack of evidence that housing or socio-economic status makes much difference.
    Reviews on Environmental Health,
    23(3), 203-221.

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