Rate My Professor Angela Upsdell

Upsdell's key publications include 'Ethnic disparities in attendance at New Zealand's chronic pain services' in the New Zealand Medical Journal (2018), 'Inequity in outcomes from New Zealand chronic pain services' also in the New Zealand Medical Journal (2021), 'Health and illness beliefs regarding pain and pain management of New Zealand resident Samoan community leaders: a qualitative interpretive study based on Pasifika paradigms' in the Health Promotion Journal of Australia (2023), 'Aotearoa New Zealand Tongan residents’ attitudes to chronic cough and access to healthcare' in the New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy (2024), and ''It's more than just kale (cough)'. New Zealand Sāmoan attitudes to living with chronic cough and healthcare access' in the Journal of Primary Health Care (2025). She has contributed to the iSelf-Help co-designed culturally appropriate online pain management programme and co-authored the International Association for the Study of Pain fact sheet 'Pain in Indigenous Peoples from Colonized Countries' (2025). Her work explores attitudes to chronic cough and healthcare access among Sāmoan and Tongan residents, as well as health and illness beliefs regarding pain management in Samoan communities.