Faʻafetai Sopoaga
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Professor at a New Zealand university and medical practitioner and public health researcher
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Faʻafetai Sopoagamedical Degrees
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#3889
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#4417
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Public Health
#693
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#716
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Faʻafetai Sopoagaphilosophy Degrees
Philosophy
#13301
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#18715
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#10582
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#13642
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Medical Philosophy
Faʻafetai Sopoaga's Degrees
- Doctorate Medicine University of New Zealand
- Masters Public Health University of New Zealand
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Faumuinā Faʻafetai Sopoaga is a Samoan-New Zealand academic specialising in Pacific health, Pacific workforce development, Pacific students, and Pacific communities. She is a professor at the Dunedin School of Medicine at the University of Otago, Dunedin. When she was appointed, she became the first Pacific woman medical doctor to be appointed in a professorial role at any university in Australia or New Zealand, and the first Pacific woman to be appointed a professor at the University of Otago.
Faʻafetai Sopoaga's Published Works
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Published Works
- Relationships between health and culture in Polynesia - a review. (2009) (96)
- Access to general practice for Pacific peoples: a place for cultural competency. (2012) (21)
- Pacific Island publications in the reproductive health literature 2000–2011: With New Zealand as a reference (2013) (17)
- Training a medical workforce to meet the needs of diverse minority communities (2017) (16)
- Pacific Research Protocols from the University of Otago (2013) (16)
- Pacific students undertaking the first year of health sciences at the University of Otago, and factors associated with academic performance. (2013) (15)
- Proposed new industry code on unhealthy food marketing to children and young people: will it make a difference? (2017) (12)
- Causes of excess hospitalizations among Pacific peoples in New Zealand: implications for primary care. (2010) (10)
- An assessment of an outcome of injury questionnaire using a Pacific model of health and wellbeing. (2014) (9)
- The development of a pre-enrolment screening tool to inform targeted support services in the first year in health sciences (2014) (9)
- Building a Pacific health workforce in New Zealand: Initial findings from a transition project in first year health sciences at university. A Practice Report (2011) (7)
- A Pacific population's access to and use of health services in Dunedin. (2012) (6)
- Pacific peoples three months after injury: a comparison of outcomes between Pacific and non‐Pacific participants in a NZ cohort study (2013) (6)
- The role of New Zealand health professional training institutions in capacity building in the Pacific region. (2015) (5)
- Investigating factors that influence success of Pacific students in first-year health sciences at university in New Zealand. (2012) (5)
- Training medical students in Pacific health through an immersion programme in New Zealand. (2012) (5)
- Kidney failure in Samoa (2020) (5)
- Traditional Medicine Use in the Dunedin Pacific Community in New Zealand (2018) (4)
- Evaluating the effectiveness of a programme for improving the participation and academic success of an underrepresented minority group in New Zealand. (2017) (4)
- Injury to Pacific people in New Zealand: Pre-injury characteristics and early health outcomes - results from a cohort study (2012) (4)
- Developing a health workforce from an underserved population in New Zealand (2011) (3)
- Global health classroom: mixed methods evaluation of an interinstitutional model for reciprocal global health learning among Samoan and New Zealand medical students (2020) (3)
- Mental health and wellbeing of Pacific students starting University in New Zealand (2018) (2)
- The perspectives of Samoan patients and health professionals about access to renal services in New Zealand. (2019) (2)
- Two decades in the making : reflecting on an approach to increase the participation and success of Pacific students at the Otago Medical School in New Zealand. (2019) (2)
- The prevalence of chronic kidney disease in Samoans living in Auckland, New Zealand (2021) (2)
- Aedes Mosquito Control and Surveillance in the Pacific (2020) (1)
- Vaikoloa: Can Pacific communities in New Zealand contribute to improving the health care they receive? (2012) (1)
- Community experience of a Pacific Immersion Programme for medical students in New Zealand. (2013) (1)
- Mental health and wellbeing of Pacific students : Protocol of a prospective cohort study (2020) (0)
- SUN-338 CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE IN A SAMOAN COMMUNITY (2019) (0)
- ReReflections on a Pacific regional event held in New Zealand: exploring best practice for serving Pacific communities (2020) (0)
- Traditional Medicine and Western Medicine, Coexisting Systems and Practices. A Perspective on the way forward (2019) (0)
- Training a medical workforce to meet the needs of diverse minority communities (2017) (0)
- Round Table Injury to Pacific people in New Zealand : Pre-injury characteristics and early health outcomes – results from a cohort study (0)
- A New Medical Curriculum for the National University of Samoa: Discussion document (2014) (0)
- Use of Bodily Tissues in Research – Pacific perspectives from Dunedin, New Zealand (2020) (0)
- A Pacific immersion programme--is it useful in teaching Pacific health to future doctors in New Zealand? (2011) (0)
- The Pacific Islands (2013) (0)
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