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Philippa Howden-Chapman

Philippa Howden-Chapman

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
52
Citations
11837
World Ranking
2419
National Ranking
21

Philippa Howden-Chapman publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Philippa Howden-Chapman sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 254 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Philippa Howden-Chapman D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Philippa Howden-Chapman sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 52 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Overview

Philippa Howden-Chapman is affiliated with the University of Otago in New Zealand. Their research spans multiple fields within social sciences and health professions, focusing extensively on housing, health inequities, and the social determinants of well-being.

Their recent publications include topics related to housing quality, health disparities, and national responses to public health crises. Notable papers by this scientist include:

  • Review of the Impact of Housing Quality on Inequalities in Health and Well-Being, 2022, Annual Review of Public Health
  • Explaining covid-19 performance: what factors might predict national responses?, 2021, BMJ
  • Housing and health: an updated glossary, 2022, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
  • Beyond home: Exploring energy poverty among youth in four diverse Pacific island states, 2020, Energy Research & Social Science
  • Association between home insulation and hospital admission rates: retrospective cohort study using linked data from a national intervention programme, 2020, BMJ

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Nevil Pierse
  • Michael Keall
  • Elinor Chisholm
  • Edward Randal
  • Lucy Telfar-Barnard

This scientist publishes regularly in several venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Health Education & Behavior
  • BMJ
  • The Lancet Public Health
  • Housing Studies
  • International Journal of Housing Policy

Their work covers broad research topics including:

  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility

Main fields of study for this scientist are:

  • Social Sciences
  • Health Professions

Subfields include:

  • General Health Professions
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Finance
  • Health

In book publications, Philippa Howden-Chapman has contributed a title published by Springer Nature: "Cities Under COVID-19: A Systems Perspective" (2023).

The scientist was recognized in 2013 with the award of Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Best Publications

  • Shaping cities for health: complexity and the planning of urban environments in the 21st century

    Yvonne Rydin;Ana Bleahu;Michael Davies;Julio D. Dávila

  • Effect of insulating existing houses on health inequality: cluster randomised study in the community

    Philippa Howden-Chapman;Anna Matheson;Julian Crane;Helen Viggers

  • Mapping interactions between the sustainable development goals: lessons learned and ways forward

    Måns Nilsson;Elinor Chisholm;David Griggs;Philippa Howden-Chapman

  • Effects of improved home heating on asthma in community dwelling children: randomised controlled trial.

    Philippa Howden-Chapman;Nevil Pierse;Sarah Nicholls;Julie Gillespie-Bennett

  • Increasing incidence of serious infectious diseases and inequalities in New Zealand: a national epidemiological study

    Michael G Baker;Lucy Telfar Barnard;Amanda Kvalsvig;Ayesha Verrall

  • Translating research findings into health policy.

    Peter Davis;Philippa Howden-Chapman

  • Tackling cold housing and fuel poverty in New Zealand: A review of policies, research, and health impacts

    Philippa Howden-Chapman;Helen Viggers;Ralph Chapman;Kimberley O’Sullivan

  • Retrofitting houses with insulation: a cost–benefit analysis of a randomised community trial

    R Chapman;P Howden-Chapman;H Viggers;D O'Dea

  • Home modifications to reduce injuries from falls in the Home Injury Prevention Intervention (HIPI) study: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

    Michael D Keall;Nevil Pierse;Philippa Howden-Chapman;Chris Cunningham

  • Housing standards: a glossary of housing and health.

    P Howden-Chapman

  • Tuberculosis associated with household crowding in a developed country

    M Baker;D Das;K Venugopal;P Howden-Chapman

  • Warm homes: Drivers of the demand for heating in the residential sector in New Zealand

    Philippa Howden-Chapman;Helen Viggers;Ralph Chapman;Des O’Dea

  • Participation in clubs and groups from childhood to adolescence and its effects on attachment and self-esteem

    Rob McGee;Sheila Williams;Philippa Howden-Chapman;Jennifer Martin

  • National infant mortality rates in relation to gross national product and distribution of income.

    Simon Hales;Philippa Howden-Chapman;Clare Salmond;Alistair Woodward

  • Assessing housing quality and its impact on health, safety and sustainability

    Michael Keall;Michael G Baker;Philippa Howden-Chapman;Malcolm Cunningham

  • Retrofitting houses with insulation to reduce health inequalities: Aims and methods of a clustered, randomised community-based trial

    P Howden-Chapman;J Crane;A Matheson;H Viggers

  • Making the connection: The relationship between fuel poverty, electricity disconnection, and prepayment metering

    Kimberley C. O’Sullivan;Philippa L. Howden-Chapman;Geoff Fougere

  • Housing and Health in Older People: Ageing in Place

    Philippa Howden-Chapman;Louise Signal;Julian Crane

  • Social inequalities in mobility: the impact of the hukou system on migrants' job accessibility and commuting costs in Beijing

    Unknown

  • Review of the Impact of Housing Quality on Inequalities in Health and Well-Being.

    Unknown

  • Community-based asthma care: trial of a "credit card" asthma self-management plan

    D'Souza W;Crane J;Burgess C;Te Karu H

  • No association of neighbourhood volunteerism with mortality in New Zealand: a national multilevel cohort study

    Tony Blakely;June Atkinson;Vivienne Ivory;Sunny Collings

Frequent Co-Authors

Nick Wilson
Nick Wilson University of Otago
Alistair Woodward
Alistair Woodward University of Auckland
Simon Hales
Simon Hales University of Otago
Tony Blakely
Tony Blakely University of Melbourne
Arthur Grimes
Arthur Grimes Motu Economic and Public Policy Research
Karen Witten
Karen Witten Massey University
Richard Edwards
Richard Edwards University of Otago
Johan P. Mackenbach
Johan P. Mackenbach Erasmus University Rotterdam
Sharon Friel
Sharon Friel Australian National University
Simon Kingham
Simon Kingham University of Canterbury

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