Keri Lawson-Te Aho

Keri Rose Lawson-Te Aho is a New Zealand academic specialising in studying mental health issues and suicide amongst New Zealand's Māori people.[1][2][3]

Biography

In 1995–96, Lawson-Te Aho was a Fulbright scholar and visiting research fellow at the East-West Center in Hawaii. She later travelled in indigenous communities in Alaska and other parts of North America, working on suicide prevention and tribal self-determination projects.[4] In 2013, she completed a PhD at Victoria University of Wellington on Māori suicide prevention.[5]

Lawson-Te Aho is a lecturer at the University of Otago's Wellington School of Medicine.[6][7]

Further reading

References
  1. "Shocking suicide rates for Māori men". Māori Television. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  2. "'We need to make it OK to talk about problems'". RNZ. 7 October 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  3. Lawson-Te Aho, Keri (7 October 2016). "The power of hope for Māori youth suicide prevention: Preliminary themes from the Aotearoa/New Zealand HOPE studies". Journal of Indigenous Research. 5 (2).
  4. "Keri Lawson-Te Aho, Ph.D." www.indigenouspsych.org. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  5. Lawson-Te Aho, Keri (2013). Whāia Te Mauriora - In Pursuit of Healing: Theorising connections between soul healing, tribal self-determination and Māori suicide prevention in Aotearoa / New Zealand (PhD thesis). Open Access Repository Victoria University of Wellington. doi:10.26686/wgtn.17006035.v1.
  6. "Keri Lawson-Te Aho | University of Otago - Academia.edu". otago.academia.edu. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  7. McAllen, Jess (20 December 2018). "Māori NGO leaks supplementary mental health inquiry report". www.scoop.co.nz. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
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