The M2M Advisory Group provides research governance and oversight for the project as a whole. Membership will change based on the study period and will include expertise in clinical medicine, health policy and Māori health. We plan to convene the Advisory Group at least 3 times during the duration of the project.
Professor Papaarangi Reid (Te Rarawa) is Tumuaki (Deputy Dean Māori) and Head of Department of Māori Health at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland New Zealand. She holds science and medical degrees from the University of Auckland and is a specialist in public health medicine. She has tribal affiliations to Te Rarawa in the far north of Aotearoa. Her research interests include analysing disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous citizens as a means of monitoring government commitment to Indigenous rights.
Associate Professor Bridget (Ngāti Raukawa) is the director of Te Rōpū Rangahau Hauora a Eru Pōmare at the University of Otago, Wellington. Her research interests are in the areas of social and economic determinants of health, inequitable treatment in the health system, the impact of racism on health, and the development of kaupapa Māori epidemiology. Bridget is the Principal Investigator of Unequal Treatment: The Role of Health Services. She is also involved in the Mauri Tangata project on unemployment and health, several projects on Māori cancer outcomes, and she is active in providing Tackling Inequalities workshops for the health sector. Bridget was also an author on Hauora: Standards of Health III.