Pacific ethnicity (Niue, Samoa, Cook Island). Head of Department Pacific Health and Co-Director Te Poutoko Ora a KIwa (Centre for Pacific and Global Health), University of Auckland. Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Middlemore Hospital, South Auckland, New Zealand. Research interests in Pacific Women’s Health focusing on obesity, diabetes, cardiac diseases, excessive weight gain in pregnancy, Obstructive sleep apnoea and endometrial cancer. Completed PhD in O&G (graduated 2022) carrying out the Healthy and Baby (HUMBA) randomised controlled trial and carrying out a Cochrane systematic review searching RCTs for evidence around the use of probiotics for treatment of gestational diabetes.
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