In 2014 Hope was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to health.

[1] 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.

[3][4] Hope serves on the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates potential miscarriages of justice.

[3] In the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours, Hope was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to health.

[2] 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.