Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari kē he toa takitini
My strength is not individual it is collective
Our core research team is based in Wellington (Pōneke) and Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau)
But we have researchers collaborating from all over Aotearoa and overseas.
Meet our research team below!
Our Wellington team
Cheryl Davies
Tū Kotahi Māori Asthma Trust
Co-Primary Investigator
Hemakumar Devan
Primary Investigator
University of Otago, Wellington
Ginny Taft
Research Assistant and Patient Advocate
Lívia Fernandes
Assistant Research Fellow at University of Otago
You may meet these team members kānohi-ki-te-kānohi (in-person).
They are involved in kōrero about your stories through interviews and storytelling workshops.
Our Auckland team
Debbie Bean
Health Psychologist
Senior Lecturer in Rehabilitation at Auckland University of Technology
Angela Upsdell
Physiotherapist
Research Fellow at University of Otago
Eva Morunga
Health Psychologist
Te Toka Tumai Auckland
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Kepa Tumai
Research Assistant
Nāu te rourou, nāku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi
With your food basket and my food basket the people will thrive
Our wider team
International and interdisciplinary researchers that are collaborating in this mahi (work)
CORE RESEARCH TEAM
Lisa Te Morenga - Nutrition and Māori health researcher, Massey University, Wellington
Jane Thomas - Pharmacology and Therapeutics Advisory Committee, University of Auckland, Auckland
Leinani Aiono-Le-Tagaloa - Anesthesiologist and Pain Specialist, Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand, Auckland
Susan Reid - Institute for Healthcare Advancement, California, USA
Tony Dowell - General Practitioner and Professor of Primary Health Care, University of Otago, Wellington
James Stanley - Biostatistician, University of Otago, Wellington
SUPPORT TEAM
Isobel Joy Te Aho-White - Te Aho-White Art & Illustration, Wellington
Luke Pilkinton-Ching - Videographer/ Photographer, University of Otago, Wellington
NATIONAL ADVISORS
Tess Moeke-Maxwell - School of Nursing, University of Auckland, Auckland
Leigh Hale - University of Otago
Rebecca Grainger - University of Otago
INTERNATIONAL ADVISOR
Beth Darnall - Stanford Pain Relief Innovations Lab
CLINICAL ADVISORY TEAM
Louise Lynch - Clinical Lead in Pain Management, Capital and Coast DHB, Wellington
Dagmar Hempel - Pain Management Service, Capital and Coast DHB, Wellington
Paul Vroegop - Te Whatu Ora Counties Manukaū
LIVED EXPERIENCE EXPERTISE TEAM
Michel Falcon - GAPPA, USA
Joletta Belton - GAPPA, USA
Deb Thompson - Patient advocate, NZ
Natalie Snaddon - Peer-support facilitator, NZ
STORYTELLING TEAM - INTERNATIONAL
Antonia Liguori - Professor of Participatory Storytelling and Public Policy, Teesside University, UK
Lyndsey Bakewell - De Montfort University, UK
Leah Henrickson - University of Queensland, Australia