11 Facts About Hinemoa Elder

Hinemoa Elder was born on 1966 and is a New Zealand youth forensic psychiatrist and former television presenter.

Hinemoa Elder is a professor in indigenous research at Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, a fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, and sits on the Maori Advisory Committee of the Centre for Brain Research.

Hinemoa Elder graduated in 1999 and went on to specialise in child and adolescent psychiatry.

Hinemoa Elder has served on a number of reference groups for the Ministry of Health including the expert advisory group of Blueprint II, which established the framework for New Zealand mental health service funding.

Hinemoa Elder is a deputy member of the New Zealand Mental Health Review Tribunal and a specialist assessor under the Intellectual Disability Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation Act 2003.

Hinemoa Elder is a research associate of the Person Centred Research Centre, the National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neurosciences and is a trustee and director of Emerge Aotearoa, a non-governmental organisation.

In 2014, Hinemoa Elder received a Health Research Council of New Zealand Eru Pomare Post Doctoral Fellowship which allowed her to extend the work of her doctorate.

In 2017 Hinemoa Elder received the Innovation and Science Award at the New Zealand Women of Influence Awards.

Hinemoa Elder grew up in England with her Maori mother and New Zealand European father, returning to New Zealand when she was eleven.

Hinemoa Elder is of English descent, and from Ngati Kuri, Te Rarawa, Te Aupouri and Ngapuhi iwi.

Hinemoa Elder is the former partner, later wife, of the late broadcaster Paul Holmes and had a son, Reuben, with him.