Rate My Professor Sue Crengle

Professor Sue Crengle (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha) is Professor of Māori Health and Director of the Ngāi Tahu Māori Health Research Unit in the University of Otago's Division of Health Sciences, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine. She possesses qualifications of MBChB, PhD, FRNZCGP, and FNZCPHM, and maintains vocational registration as a general practitioner and public health medicine specialist. With over 25 years of research experience, her career at the University of Otago culminated in her promotion to full professor in 2021. She teaches in public health programs, emphasizing reflective practice for students impacting Māori health, and supervises research on Hauora Māori.

Crengle's research specializations include health inequities experienced by Māori, health services research, quality of care assessments, child and youth health, primary care, mental health, and cancer screening initiatives for bowel and lung cancers. She applies Kaupapa Māori quantitative and qualitative methods and conducts intervention trials to improve Māori health outcomes. Her contributions extend to policy and governance, including her 2021 appointment as a board member of the Māori Health Authority, leveraging her primary care and research expertise. In 2022, she was awarded the Te ORA Maarire Goodall Supreme Award as the outstanding and influential Māori doctor of the year, honoring her roles as practitioner, researcher, teacher, mentor, and advocate for equitable health. Key publications encompass 'Impact of low-dose CT screening for lung cancer on ethnic health inequities: protocol for a mixed-methods study' (BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 2020), 'Mortality outcomes and inequities experienced by rural Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand: a national retrospective cohort study' (The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific, 2022), and 'Trends in deprivation in hospitalisations of Indigenous children and youth in New Zealand: 2009–2018' (Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2022). Her work advances interventions addressing ethnic disparities in New Zealand's health system.