Centre staff recognised in 100 Māori Leaders project
Professor Bev Lawton and Anna Adcock have been honored for their work in Māori women’s health.
Professor Lawton, Founder and Director of Te Tātai Hauora o Hine, is recognised on the website for her large portfolio of work that aims to reduce preventable harm and health inequities for Māori women.
In particular, the profile recognises the work that has been influential to health policy in Aotearoa, including research that informed the establishment of the Severe Maternal Morbidity monitoring programme and the new cervical cancer screening programme.
She is cited by the project as having been “actively involved in prioritising this initiative [cervical cancer screening] in the health community, as it plays a crucial role in reducing preventable deaths.”
Anna Adcock, a Research Fellow at Te Tātai Hauora o Hine, has also been recognised for her involvement in Centre’s cervical screening research, as well as her research into the lived reality of young māmā throughout pregnancy and parenthood and belonging and well-being in transitions to motherhood—with the aim of developing collective and anticolonial health promotion approaches.
The project website describes Anna as “passionate about collaborative and participatory research methodologies that privilege Māori ways of being, knowing, relating, and doing.”
The 100 Māori Leaders project recognises current and emerging Māori leaders who are actively influencing and creating change across the health system. It is run by Te Rau Ora, a non-governmental organisation that aims to strengthen Māori health and wellbeing through nationally navigated and locally led solutions.