Matire Louise Ngarongoa Harwood is a New Zealand clinical researcher and trainee general practitioner.
14 Facts About Matire Harwood
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Matire Harwood is a professor at the University of Auckland.
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Matire Harwood's expertise is in Maori health, focussed on reducing health inequity by improving indigenous health and well-being.
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Matire Harwood is from Ngapuhi with whakapapa links to Ngati Rangi, Te Mahurehure and Ngati Hine.
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Matire Harwood attended high school in rural Victoria, Australia, where she studied maths, chemistry, physics and English, and was one of the four first female physics students at her school, despite discouragement from the science department and male students.
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Matire Harwood moved back to New Zealand to study medicine at the University of Auckland, graduating with an MBChB in 1994.
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Matire Harwood received a PhD from the University of Otago in 2012, supervised by Kathryn McPherson, Papaarangi Reid, William Taylor, Harry McNaughton and Bridget Robson.
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Matire Harwood is a professor in Maori health at the University of Auckland, where she is the co-director of Tomaiora - the Maori health research group at Te Kupenga Hauora Maori - and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences.
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Matire Harwood's research is focussed on applying Kaupapa Maori to clinical research.
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Matire Harwood supervises graduate students at the University of Auckland, as well as training senior medical students in Maori health.
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Matire Harwood's research has been published in scientific journals such as The BMJ, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, The New Zealand Medical Journal, BMC Public Health, and Disability and Rehabilitation.
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Matire Harwood is the recipient of several national and international awards, including the 2018 Matariki Award, Tuhono for Improving Maori Health, the 2017 New Zealand L'Oreal UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowship, and the 2017 Dr Maarire Goodall Award.
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Matire Harwood has served on national health committees, including as a member of the PBRF Assessment Panel, and the Expert Advisory Group for New Zealand Health Strategy and as a board member for the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, the Health Research Council, the Waitemata District Health Board, and the Asthma Respiratory Foundation of New Zealand.
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In 2019, Matire Harwood was awarded the Health Research Council of New Zealand's Te Tohu Rapuora Award.