ESR - Specialist Science Solutions ESR - Specialist Science Solutions

 Science underpinning Health, Justice
and Biosecurity in New Zealand

ESR provides science advice and services to government agencies, local authorities and the private sector.

 
We are:

  • principal science advisor to the Ministry of Health
  • sole provider of forensic services to the New Zealand Police
  • science provider to the New Zealand Food Safety Authority, New Zealand Customs, Medsafe, Pharmac and Department of Corrections
  • a science partner of MAF Biosecurity
  • science advisor for local authorities, industry organisations, and the private sector


Core science programmes:

forensic science | environmental and public health

ESR is a government owned New Zealand Crown Research Institute.  Our mission is to protect people and their environments through science - Manaaki tangata taiao hoki. 

 

Partnering with ESR
 
 

 

 

ESR's water management programme provides a range of services for local authorities...more

News

Forensic Science and traditional medicines. Jacqui MacCallum is developing techniques to detect internationally protected wildlife in imported traditional medicines

CSI -  ESR (video opens in new window)

Blood Pattern Analysis - ESR scientist Dr Michael Taylor is using high-speed digital video to capture what happens to blood spatter.

New Zealand's WHO National Influenza Centre is located at ESR's Science Centre at the National Centre for Biosecurity and Infectious Disease - Wallaceville.(NCBID)