We are very pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Emma Wyeth (Kai Tahu) to the HRC's Māori Health Committee.
Emma is a lecturer (hauora Māori) and Director of Te Rōpu Rangahau Hauora Māori o Ngāi Tahu at the University of Otago's School of Medicine in Dunedin.
Emma has a range of research interests within the field of hauora Māori. She currently holds a HRC emerging researcher first grant (2014–2017) entitled Māori disability outcomes: Pathways and experiences after injury, and she is a former HRC Eru Pōmare postdoctoral research fellow. Emma is also a co-investigator (Māori health) in the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study, a longitudinal study of 1,037 babies born in Dunedin during 1972–1973.