Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) Political Science Honors student, Alexa Schluter, is the lead author of the paper 'In the COVID-19 pandemic, who did we trust? An eight-country cross-sectional study' published in the Journal of Global Health. Her father, Professor Philip Schluter, of UC's School of Health Sciences, supervised her Summer Studentship research.
UC father–daughter research team Alexa and Professor Philip Schluter. Credit: University of Canterbury
Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury Political Science Honors student, Alexa Schluter, is the lead author of the paper"In the COVID-19 pandemic, who did we trust? An eight-country cross-sectional study" published in the. Her father, Professor Philip Schluter, of UC's School of Health Sciences, supervised her Summer Studentship research.
The pair worked with clinicians and public health researchers in Canada to study data from 9,000 survey participants from Canada, U.S., England, Switzerland, Belgium, Philippines, New Zealand, and Hong Kong. The surveys were carried out in late 2020. In all countries surveyed, public trust in health authorities was highest. Conversely, public trust in politicians ranked lowest across the board. However, in New Zealand, trust in politicians was significantly higher than in the other countries studied. The researchers linked this to data from the Global Corruption Perception Index that records how transparent populations believe their governments to be.
Professor Schluter also points to the consistent messaging delivered by government and public health officials in Aotearoa New Zealand."Here we saw the daily briefing with the Prime Minister and the Director General of Health promoting the same stance. By comparison, information coming from U.S.
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