Joanne Baxter
New Zealand public health researcher
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Joanne Mary Baxter is a New Zealand Māori public health medicine physician and academic and affiliates with the iwi of Ngāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha and Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō. She is a professor and director of Kōhatu, Centre for Hauora Māori,[1] and co-director of the Māori Health Workforce Development Unit at the University of Otago. Baxter took up the position of dean of the Dunedin School of Medicine on 1 July 2022, and is the first Māori woman in the role.[2]
Joanne Baxter | |
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| Born | Joanne Mary Baxter |
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| Institutions | University of Otago |
Academic career
Baxter was educated at Queen Charlotte College in Picton, where she was head girl in her final year.[3] She was one of ten recipients of a Ngarimu Scholarship for undergraduates in 1982.[4] She has MB ChB degrees from the University of Auckland and a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Otago,[5] where she has been employed since 2000. Baxter is a member of the New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine (NZCPHM). Her research focusses on Māori health and mental health, health inequalities, Māori health workforce and medical education.[6] She was promoted to full professor effective from 1 February 2020.[1]
Honours and awards
In 2016, Baxter was a key team member of the Dunedin Study led by Richie Poulton, that won that year's Prime Minister's Science Prize.[7] Baxter was a finalist for Te Ururangi Award for Education in the 2017 Matariki Awards, alongside Dame Georgina Kingi, who won the award, and Robert Jahnke.[8] Baxter has twice been honoured by Te Ohu Rata o Aotearoa / The Māori Medical Practitioners Association, winning the Maarire Goodall Award in 2013,[9] and the Ngākau Award in 2019.[10] In 2022, she won the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award at the Osmosis Raise the Line Faculty Awards.[11]
Selected works
- Jack Dummer; Emma Tumilty; Debbie Hannah; Kathryn McAuley; Jo Baxter; Fiona Doolan-Noble; Simon Donlevy; Tim Stokes (10 February 2020). "Health Care Utilisation and Health Needs of People with Severe COPD in the Southern Region of New Zealand: A Retrospective Case Note Review". COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. 17 (2): 1-7, 136-142. doi:10.1080/15412555.2020.1724275. ISSN 1541-2555. PMID 32037897. Wikidata Q89618611.
- Emma Tumilty; Fiona Doolan-Noble; Anna Tiatia Fa'atoese Latu; et al. (1 June 2020). "'A balancing act'. Living with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Southern New Zealand: a qualitative study". Journal of Primary Health Care. 12 (2): 166-172, 166. doi:10.1071/HC20007. ISSN 1172-6156. PMID 32594984. Wikidata Q96774030.
- Sara R Jaffee; Judith L Sligo; Helena M McAnally; Aroha E Bolton; Joanne M Baxter; Robert J Hancox (21 November 2020). "Early-onset and recurrent depression in parents increases risk of intergenerational transmission to adolescent offspring". Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (in English and English). 62 (8): 979–988. doi:10.1111/JCPP.13356. ISSN 1469-7610. PMID 33222168. Wikidata Q102321025.