For nearly 40 years, Emeritus Professor David Murray Fergusson was the Director of the Christchurch Health and Development Study (CHDS), a longitudinal study of a cohort of 1265 children born in Christchurch in mid-1977.
His longitudinal research enlightened debate and informed government policy decisions on the controversial, but significant, topics of child sexual abuse, youth drug use and abortion, amongst others. After his retirement from the University of Otago in 2015, David served as a scientific advisor to the Ministry of Social Development, where he continued his work in the development of interventions to reduce childhood behaviour disorder.
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