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Matire Harwood
Matire Louise Ngarongoa Harwood KSM is a New Zealand clinical researcher and trainee general practitioner. She is a professor at the University of Auckland. Harwood was the 2017 New Zealand L'Oréal UNESCO For Women in Science Fellow. Her expertise is in Māori health, focussed on reducing health inequity by improving indigenous health and well-being.
Harwood is from Ngāpuhi with whakapapa links to Ngāti Rangi, Te Mahurehure and Ngāti Hine.
During her childhood, Harwood moved to Australia with her family, where she and her siblings experienced racism due to being Māori.
Harwood attended high school in rural Victoria, Australia, where she studied maths (statistics and calculus), chemistry, physics and English, and was one of the four first female physics students at her school, despite discouragement from the science department and male students. She credits the encouragement of her female science teacher for the success of the female students.
Harwood moved back to New Zealand to study medicine at the University of Auckland, graduating with an MBChB in 1994. No one in her family had previously attended university. She credits the influence of her grandfather, Ngature Matenga Werekake, who inspired her to be a doctor when she was seven years old.
Harwood received a PhD from the University of Otago in 2012, supervised by Kathryn McPherson, Papaarangi Reid, William Taylor, Harry McNaughton and Bridget Robson. Her doctoral research on patient-driven rehabilitation following a stroke developed an intervention designed especially for Māori and Pasifika. The success of this intervention led to changes in treatment guidelines for stroke recovery.
Harwood lives in Auckland with her partner Haunui and two young children.
Harwood is a professor in Māori health at the University of Auckland, where she is the co-director of Tōmaiora - the Māori health research group at Te Kupenga Hauora Māori - and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. Her research is focussed on applying Kaupapa Māori (Māori principles) to clinical research. Harwood supervises graduate students at the University of Auckland, as well as training senior medical students in Māori health.
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Matire Harwood
Matire Louise Ngarongoa Harwood KSM is a New Zealand clinical researcher and trainee general practitioner. She is a professor at the University of Auckland. Harwood was the 2017 New Zealand L'Oréal UNESCO For Women in Science Fellow. Her expertise is in Māori health, focussed on reducing health inequity by improving indigenous health and well-being.
Harwood is from Ngāpuhi with whakapapa links to Ngāti Rangi, Te Mahurehure and Ngāti Hine.
During her childhood, Harwood moved to Australia with her family, where she and her siblings experienced racism due to being Māori.
Harwood attended high school in rural Victoria, Australia, where she studied maths (statistics and calculus), chemistry, physics and English, and was one of the four first female physics students at her school, despite discouragement from the science department and male students. She credits the encouragement of her female science teacher for the success of the female students.
Harwood moved back to New Zealand to study medicine at the University of Auckland, graduating with an MBChB in 1994. No one in her family had previously attended university. She credits the influence of her grandfather, Ngature Matenga Werekake, who inspired her to be a doctor when she was seven years old.
Harwood received a PhD from the University of Otago in 2012, supervised by Kathryn McPherson, Papaarangi Reid, William Taylor, Harry McNaughton and Bridget Robson. Her doctoral research on patient-driven rehabilitation following a stroke developed an intervention designed especially for Māori and Pasifika. The success of this intervention led to changes in treatment guidelines for stroke recovery.
Harwood lives in Auckland with her partner Haunui and two young children.
Harwood is a professor in Māori health at the University of Auckland, where she is the co-director of Tōmaiora - the Māori health research group at Te Kupenga Hauora Māori - and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. Her research is focussed on applying Kaupapa Māori (Māori principles) to clinical research. Harwood supervises graduate students at the University of Auckland, as well as training senior medical students in Māori health.
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