Professor Emma Wyeth

Emma Wyeth (Kāi Tahu, Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mutunga) was a Deputy Director at Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga 2016 to 2018. Emma is the Director of Te Rōpū Rangahau Hauora Māori o Ngāi Tahu (Ngāi Tahu Māori Health Research Unit) and a Professor in Māori Health, both in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine.

Emma has a range of research expertise and interests within the field of hauora Māori.

She is currently the Principal Investigator on the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC)-funded POIS-10 Māori: Outcomes and experiences in the decade following injury study (2019-2022) and the Co-Principal Investigator of the Prospective Outcomes of Injury Study: 10 years on (POIS-10) study (also funded by the HRC; 2019-2022). She is also the Co-Principal Investigator of the Trauma Outcomes Project (funded by the Health Quality and Safety Commission and the National Trauma Network). She has previously held a HRC Emerging Researcher First Grant (2014-2017) entitled Maori Disability Outcomes: Pathways and Experiences After Injury. She was also a Co-Deputy Director of New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (2016-2018).

Emma is involved in a range of other research projects with the majority focused on understanding and improving Maori health outcomes, and experiences and engagement within the health system. Other projects include the University of Otago Research Theme Poutama Ara Rau (Principal Investigator) and the Health Research Council of New Zealand-funded Subsequent Injury Study (SInS): Improving outcomes for injured New Zealanders (Named Investigator).

Emma is a former HRC Eru Pōmare Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. As part of her fellowship, Emma worked with Professor Sarah Derrett on the Prospective Outcomes of Injury Study (POIS), which was HRC-funded 2007–2013 and ACC co-funded 2007-2010, leading the Māori qualitative and quantitative components of POIS investigating the outcomes and experiences after injury for a group of injured Māori:
Prospective Outcomes of Injury study blog

Emma is also a former Co-Investigator (Māori Health) in the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study, a longitudinal study of 1,037 babies born in Dunedin during 1972-1973 (The Dunedin Study):
Dunedin Study website

Emma joined the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine as an Assistant Research Fellow in 2007 after submitting her PhD in Genetics, which primarily focused on the genetic association of rheumatoid arthritis and gout for Māori. Her PhD thesis also explored Māori views of science, in particular genetic research.