Rate My Professor Oka Sanerivi

Sanerivi's career includes clinical practice in Gisborne, serving as Pacific Clinical Research Training Fellow funded by the Health Research Council, and current role as Senior Research Fellow at Mātai Medical Research Institute and University of Otago. He has garnered awards such as the Pacific Clinical Research Training Fellowship (2022), Emerging Scholar Award from the Oceanic Comparative and International Educational Society (2022), Pacific Health Masters Career Development Award (2020), and Physiotherapy New Zealand Paediatric Special Interest Group Professional Development Award (2021). Key publications encompass 'Uo mo aso uma, a o uso mo aso vale: Lessons from Aotearoa Physiotherapists Responding to Disasters' (2022, New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy), 'Perceptions of Pasifika Caregivers on a Pacific Community Playgroup and implications for paediatric physiotherapists' (2022), and 'Holistic health for Pacific seniors from a weekly group physiotherapy class' (2023). He has presented extensively at events including World Physiotherapy Congress and serves as Deputy Chair of the New Zealand Physiotherapy Board, with his landmark off-campus PhD defence at the Samoan High Commission highlighting community impact.