Reports & Media

Katharine Birbalsingh is the founder and headmistress of Michaela Community School, a free school in London. She started her own school after declaring Britain's state education system “broken” because it kept "poor children poor." She's been called the "strictest teacher in Britain," but Katharine Birbalsingh tells Hayley Holt on Breakfast that her students "love the fact that it's strict". Read more

On World No Tobacco Day Wendyl Nissen interviews Jenesa Jeram about how smokeless nicotine delivery products (e-cigarettes, snus, and heat-not-burn) can be used to help New Zealand become smoke-free. Read more

New Zealand born London headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh founded Michaela Community School. It is often referred to as Britain's strictest school. Read more

Jenesa Jeram tells James Coleman on World No Tobacco Day how vaping could be the pathway to a smoke-free New Zealand. Her recent report Smoke and Vapour: the changing world of tobacco harm reduction calls for a range of smokeless nicotine delivery products to be made available to smokers wanting to cut down or quit. Read more

Wellington (30 May 2018): The New Zealand Initiative is celebrating World Smokefree Day (Thursday 31 May) as an opportunity to take a more compassionate approach to tobacco control policy. A recent report by The New Zealand Initiative Smoke and Vapour: the changing world of tobacco harm reduction calls for a range of smokeless nicotine delivery products (e-cigarettes, snus, and heat-not-burn) to be made available to smokers wanting to cut down or quit. Read more

While our tobacco policy is flawed, the Government needs to make the most of new technology like vaping, argues Jenesa Jeram argues on Newstalk ZB. Read more

Eric Crampton comments on the new taxi service to rival Uber. Zoomy now has more than 80,000 app downloads and more than 2000 drivers, but can it become profitable? Read more

The head of the country's largest Māori public health organisation wants the Government to develop a strategy to end tobacco sales in New Zealand. Hāpai Te Hauora chief executive Lance Norman made the call at a briefing of the health and Māori affairs select committees on the country's Smokefree 2025 target. Read more