Moana Theodore

Reremoana Farquharson Theodore is a New Zealand epidemiologist specialising in longitudinal research in Māori health and education.[1] She is the director of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study and was director of the University of Otago's National Centre for Lifecourse Research in Dunedin.[2][3]

Moana Theodore
Close-up of Moana Theodore
Theodore in 2020
Born
Auckland, New Zealand
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
Known forLongitudinal research on Māori health and education
Scientific career
FieldsEpidemiology
Institutions
ThesisFactors associated with cognitive ability in middle childhood (2008)
Doctoral advisors
  • Ed Mitchell
  • John Thompson
  • Karen Waldie

Early life and education

Theodore is of Ngāpuhi descent, and she grew up in Auckland.[1] She studied psychology at the University of Otago. Her work in epidemiology began with being interviewer on the longitudinal Dunedin Study in 1998, and she then worked on further lifecourse research at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.[1][4]

PhD and research career

Theodore gained her PhD from the University of Auckland in 2008.[5]

Theodore was awarded a Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie Postdoctoral Fellowship,[2] and was one of two researchers awarded Māori Health Research Emerging Leader Fellowships by the HRC in 2018.[6]

Organisational affiliations

Theodore served on the Council of New Zealand's academy of sciences, the Royal Society Te Apārangi, from 2018 to 2021.[7] She was a ministerial appointment to the Southern District Health Board from 2019 to 2022.[8]

References
  1. National Centre for Lifecourse Research. "Dr Reremoana (Moana) Theodore". University of Otago. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  2. "Associate Professor Reremoana (Moana) Theodore". University of Otago. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  3. "New Dunedin Study director named". Stuff. 24 October 2023. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  4. "Educational benefits". University of Otago. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  5. Theodore, Reremoana Farquharson (2008). Factors associated with cognitive ability in middle childhood (PhD thesis). Auckland: University of Auckland.
  6. "Making life better for Māori – the goal of emerging health research leaders". Health Research Council of New Zealand. 1 May 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  7. "Matariki hunga nui". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  8. Houlahan, Mike (9 June 2022). "SDHB meets for last time before restructure". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
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