Terryann Clark

Terryann Coralie Clark, known as TC, is a New Zealand Māori nursing academic, and as of 2023 is a full professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in Māori health, adolescent wellbeing and mental and sexual health.

Terryann Clark
Born
Terryann Coralie Clark
AwardsResearch Impact Award 2022
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Auckland, University of Minnesota
ThesisFactors associated with reduced depression and suicide risk among Māori high school student in New Zealand. (2007)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Auckland

Biography

Clark grew up in Moerewa.[1] Her mother was a child of a closed adoption, and so Clark is only recently discovering her whakapapa. Her mother's adopted whanau are Ngāpuhi Nui Tonu.[1] Clark was educated at Otiria Primary School and Bay of Islands College. She originally wanted to be an artist, although a school guidance counsellor suggested hairdressing. Clark didn't know anyone who had been to university. Her art teacher took her to the university in Auckland during a school trip, where she "thought the students didn't look that smart."[2][1] Having passed Bursary, she applied for teaching, nursing, and art courses, and at her mother's suggestion, she pursued nursing at Manukau Institute of Technology. She worked as a Māori community health worker in Glen Innes and then at Auckland Sexual Health Services.[1]

Clark completed a Master's in Public Health at the University of Auckland in 2002, with a thesis on sexual health in young Māori people.[3] After making contacts during a conference in Los Angeles, she completed a PhD titled Factors associated with reduced depression and suicide risk among Mäori high school student in New Zealand at the University of Minnesota.[1][4] In 2008, she joined the faculty of the school of nursing at the University of Auckland as a senior lecturer.[5] She was appointed to the Cure Kids professorial chair in Child and Adolescent Mental Health in July 2022.[1][6]

Her research focuses on sexual and mental health, Māori health, and especially adolescent health.[7] She is a founding member of the Adolescent Health Research Group, and has been part of collecting data on a long-term study of adolescents in 2001, 2007, 2012, and 2019.[2][8] Clark is on the advisory panel for the 'A Better Start' National Science Challenge.[9]

Clark has a prosthetic leg after being hit by a car in Minnesota.[2] She credits taking up dog-sledding with helping with her recovery.[1]

Awards

Clark and her team of won a University of Auckland Research Impact award in 2022, for their work "surveying the health and well-being of more than 36,000 teenagers [which] has provided a rich source of policy change for the better".[1][10]

Selected works

References
  1. Husband, Dale (27 May 2023). "Professor Terryann Clark: This is where the gold is". E-Tangata. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
  2. Community Research (1 November 2021). "Telling the stories of our researcher whānau: Terryann Clark". Community Research. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
  3. Clark, Terryann Coralie (2002). Young Maori attending alternative education : a profile of sexual health behaviours and associated protective factors (Master's in Public Health thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland.
  4. Clark, Terryann Coralie (2007). "Factors associated with reduced depression and suicide risk among Mäori high school student in New Zealand". primo.lib.umn.edu. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
  5. University of Auckland. "Terryann Clark staff profile". profiles.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
  6. "Role Call – People on the move and getting recognition in the health sector". New Zealand Doctor. 8 June 2023. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
  7. "Dr Terryann Clark | Whāraurau". wharaurau.org.nz. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
  8. "Professor Terryann Clark • Cure Kids". www.curekids.org.nz. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
  9. "Kia ora to our new Science Advisory Panel members | A Better Start – National Science Challenge". www.abetterstart.nz. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
  10. "Awards celebrate excellence in research – The University of Auckland". www.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 28 May 2023.


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