Joanne Baxter
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Joanne Mary Baxter is a New Zealand Māori public health medicine physician and academic and affiliates with the iwiofNgāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha and Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō. She is a professor and director of Kōhatu, Centre for Hauora Māori,[1] and co-director of the Māori Health Workforce Development Unit at the University of Otago. Baxter took up the position of dean of the Dunedin School of Medicine on 1 July 2022, and is the first Māori woman in the role.[2]
Baxter was educated at Queen Charlotte CollegeinPicton, where she was head girl in her final year.[3] She was one of ten recipients of a Ngarimu Scholarship for undergraduates in 1982.[4] She has MB ChB degrees from the University of Auckland and a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Otago,[5] where she has been employed since 2000. Baxter is a member of the New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine (NZCPHM). Her research focusses on Māori health and mental health, health inequalities, Māori health workforce and medical education.[6] She was promoted to full professor effective from 1 February 2020.[1]
In 2016, Baxter was a key team member of the Dunedin Study led by Richie Poulton, that won that year's Prime Minister's Science Prize.[7] Baxter was a finalist for Te Ururangi Award for Education in the 2017 Matariki Awards, alongside Dame Georgina Kingi, who won the award, and Robert Jahnke.[8] Baxter has twice been honoured by Te Ohu Rata o Aotearoa / The Māori Medical Practitioners Association, winning the Maarire Goodall Award in 2013,[9] and the Ngākau Award in 2019.[10] In 2022, she won the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award at the Osmosis Raise the Line Faculty Awards.[11]
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