{{Short description|New Zealand researcher and medical manager}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox academic | name = Virginia Hope | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = {{#statements:P18}} | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{#statements:P569}} | birth_place = {{#statements:P19}} | death_date = {{#statements:P570}} | death_place = {{#statements:P20}} | resting_place = {{#statements:P119}} | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{Coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline,title}} --> | other_names = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = | workplaces = {{#statements:P108}} | patrons = | alma_mater = {{#statements:P69}} | thesis1_title = | thesis1_url = | thesis1_year = | doctoral_advisor = {{#statements:P184}} | academic_advisors = {{#statements:P1066}} | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = {{#statements:P166}} | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | signature_alt = | website = <!-- {{URL|www.example.com}} --> | footnotes = | spouse = | children = }} '''Virginia Hope''' {{Post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM}} is a New Zealand public health specialist, researcher and public sector governance expert. In 2014 Hope was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to health.

==Academic career==

Hope completed a Diploma of Community Health at the University of Otago and a medical degree and Masters of Philosophy at the University of Auckland.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Virginia Hope |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/virginia-hope-bba4b06/details/education/ |access-date=30 September 2024 |website=LinkedIn}}</ref> Hope served in the Auckland Regional Public Health Service as the Medical Officer of Health (Environmental Health) for ten years, and then joined the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR), a Crown Research Institute, in 2006.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=ESR team take supreme award at science awards |url=https://www.esr.cri.nz/news-publications/esr-team-take-supreme-award-at-science-awards/ |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=www.esr.cri.nz |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=Taumata Arowai Board {{!}} Taumata Arowai |url=https://www.taumataarowai.govt.nz/about/our-team/taumata-arowai-board/ |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=www.taumataarowai.govt.nz |language=en-GB}}</ref> She is the Medical Director at ESR, and has also been Chair of the Hutt Valley District Health Board and the Capital and Coast District Health Board, and an elected member of the Auckland District Health Board.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":5" /> She was a part of the Ministry of Health's COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group.<ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Daly |first=Michael |date=18 August 2020 |title=Coronavirus: How genome testing is helping identify Covid-19 clusters |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/122487242/coronavirus-how-genome-testing-is-helping-identify-covid19-clusters |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=www.stuff.co.nz}}</ref>

Hope serves on the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates potential miscarriages of justice. She was appointed to the role in 2020.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Ā Mātou Kaikōmihana {{!}} Our Commissioners |url=https://www.ccrc.nz/about-us/a-matou-kaikomihana-our-commissioners/ |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=Te Kāhui Tātari Ture {{!}} Criminal Cases Review Commission |language=en-NZ}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2020-07-06 |title=Criminal Cases Review Commission appointments announced |url=https://www.lawsociety.org.nz/news/newsroom/criminal-cases-review-commission-appointments-announced/ |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=New Zealand Law Society {{!}} Te Kāhui Ture o Aotearoa |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Meriana Johnsen |date=2020-06-03 |title=Five new appointments to Criminal Cases Review Commission |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/418197/five-new-appointments-to-criminal-cases-review-commission |access-date=2024-09-29 |work=RNZ |language=en-nz}}</ref> She is also on the board of water services regulator Taumata Arowai.<ref name=":5" />

==Honours and awards== In the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours, Hope was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to health.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-06-02 |title=The Queen's Birthday Honours List 2014 {{!}} Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) |url=https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/publications/queens-birthday-honours-list-2014 |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=www.dpmc.govt.nz |language=en}}</ref> In 2020 she was awarded the Science New Zealand Individual Lifetime Achievement Award.<ref name=":3" /> In 2021 Hope was part of the team that won the Liley Medal for their research showing the effects of New Zealand's COVID-19 response, which was published in ''The Lancet''.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=COVID-19 research team earns Liley Medal |url=https://www.massey.ac.nz/about/news/covid-19-research-team-earns-liley-medal/ |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=www.massey.ac.nz |language=en-NZ}}</ref>

== Selected works == {{scholia}} *{{Cite journal |author-link2=Virginia Hope |author-link3=Gillian Lewis (academic) |author1=Simmons G |author2=Hope V |author3=Gillian Lewis |author4=Whitmore J |author5=Gao W |doi=10.1016/S0043-1354(00)00420-6 |issn=0043-1354 |issue=6 |journal=Water Research |language=en |pages=1518–1524 |pmid=11317899 |date=1 April 2001 |title=Contamination of potable roof-collected rainwater in Auckland, New Zealand |volume=35}} *{{Cite journal |author-link15=Patricia Priest |author-link5=Virginia Hope |author-link7=Caroline McElnay |author1=Sarah Jefferies |author10=Shevaun Paine |author11=Namrata Prasad |author12=Julia Scott |author13=Jillian Sherwood |author14=Liang Yang |author15=Patricia Priest |author2=Nigel French |author3=Charlotte Gilkison |author4=Giles Graham |author5=Virginia Hope |author6=Jonathan Marshall |author7=Caroline McElnay |author8=Andrea McNeill |author9=Petra Muellner |display-authors=3 |doi=10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30225-5 |issn=2468-2667 |journal=Lancet Public Health |language=en |pmc=7553903 |pmid=33065023 |date=October 2020 |title=COVID-19 in New Zealand and the impact of the national response: a descriptive epidemiological study}} *{{Cite journal |author-link10=Virginia Hope |author-link2=Sue Huang (scientist) |author-link6=Michael Baker (epidemiologist) |author-link7=Richard Beasley (physician) |author1=Don Bandaranayake |author10=Virginia Hope |author2=Q Sue Huang |author3=Ange Bissielo |author4=Tim Wood |author5=Graham Mackereth |author6=Michael G Baker |author7=Richard Beasley |author8=Stewart Reid |author9=Sally Roberts |bibcode=2010PLoSO...513211B |display-authors=3 |doi=10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0013211 |doi-access=free |issn=1932-6203 |issue=10 |journal=PLOS One |language=en |article-number=e13211 |pmc=2954793 |pmid=20976224 |date=14 October 2010 |title=Risk factors and immunity in a nationally representative population following the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic |volume=5}} *{{Cite journal |author-link2=Virginia Hope |author1=M Ekramul Hoque |author2=Virginia T Hope |author3=Tord Kjellström |author4=Robert Scragg |author5=Roy Lay-Yee |doi=10.1016/S1201-9712(02)90110-4 |issn=1201-9712 |issue=3 |journal=International Journal of Infectious Diseases |language=en |pages=191–197 |pmid=12718834 |date=1 September 2002 |title=Risk of giardiasis in Aucklanders: a case-control study |volume=6|doi-access=free }} *{{Cite journal |author-link9=Virginia Hope |author1=Lisa McCallum |author2=Shevaun Paine |author3=Kerry Sexton |author4=Muriel Dufour |author5=Kristin Dyet |author6=Maurice Wilson |author7=Donald Campbell |author8=Don Bandaranayake |author9=Virginia Hope |display-authors=3 |doi=10.1089/FPD.2012.1282 |issn=1535-3141 |issue=2 |journal=Foodborne Pathogens and Disease |language=en |pages=159–164 |pmid=23360171 |date=29 January 2013 |title=An outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium phage type 42 associated with the consumption of raw flour |volume=10}} *{{Cite journal |author-link10=Virginia Hope |author-link5=Michael Baker (epidemiologist) |author-link6=Sue Huang (scientist) |author1=S Paine |author10=V Hope |author2=G N Mercer |author3=P M Kelly |author4=D Bandaranayake |author5=M G Baker |author6=Sue Huang |author7=G Mackereth |author8=A Bissielo |author9=K Glass |display-authors=3 |issn=1025-496X |issue=24 |journal=Eurosurveillance |language=en |pages=1513–1520 |pmid=20576236 |date=17 June 2010 |title=Transmissibility of 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) in New Zealand: effective reproduction number and influence of age, ethnicity and importations |volume=15}} *{{Cite journal |author-link2=Virginia Hope |author1=M E Hoque |author2=V T Hope |author3=Robert Scragg |author4=T Kjellström |author5=R Lay-Yee |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(00)04251-3 |issn=0140-6736 |issue=9261 |journal=The Lancet |language=en |pages=1017–1018 |pmid=11293600 |date=1 March 2001 |title=Nappy handling and risk of giardiasis |volume=357}}

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