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| Awards | Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit |
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| Alma mater | University of Otago , University of Auckland |
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| Institutions | University of Auckland , Capital and Coast District Health Board , Hutt Valley District Health Board |
Virginia Hope MNZM is a New Zealand public health specialist,researcher and public sector governance expert. In 2014 Hope was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to health.
Hope completed a Diploma of Community Health at the University of Otago and a medical degree and Masters of Philosophy at the University of Auckland. [1] Hope served in the Auckland Regional Public Health Service as the Medical Officer of Health (Environmental Health) for ten years,and then joined the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR),a Crown Research Institute,in 2006. [2] [3] She is the Medical Director at ESR,and has also been Chair of the Hutt Valley District Health Board and the Capital and Coast District Health Board,and an elected member of the Auckland District Health Board. [2] [3] She was a part of the Ministry of Health's COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group. [3] [4]
Hope serves on the Criminal Cases Review Commission,which investigates potential miscarriages of justice. She was appointed to the role in 2020. [5] [6] [7] She is also on the board of water services regulator Taumata Arowai. [3]
In the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours,Hope was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to health. [8] In 2020 she was awarded the Science New Zealand Individual Lifetime Achievement Award. [2] In 2021 Hope was part of the team that won the Liley Medal for their research showing the effects of New Zealand's COVID-19 response,which was published in The Lancet . [9]
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)Sir Albert William Liley was a New Zealand medical practitioner, renowned for developing techniques to improve the health of foetuses in utero.
Matire Louise Ngarongoa Harwood is a New Zealand clinical researcher and trainee general practitioner. She is an associate professor at the University of Auckland. Harwood was the 2017 New Zealand L'Oréal UNESCO For Women in Science Fellow. Her expertise is in Māori health, focussed on reducing health inequity by improving indigenous health and well-being.
Anne Louise Wyllie is a New Zealand microbiologist who was the lead author of a 2020 research article which led to the development of the SalivaDirect PCR method of testing saliva for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. She has also worked on community studies to better understand pneumococcal disease. She is a research scientist in epidemiology with the Public Health Modeling Unit at Yale University.
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Heather Anne Came-Friar is a New Zealand activist, academic and anti-racism scholar, and is an adjunct professor at Victoria University of Wellington, and an anti-racism consultant. In 2023 Came-Friar was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori, education and health.
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Jane Elizabeth Skeen is a New Zealand paediatric oncologist who worked at Starship Blood and Cancer Centre at Starship Children’s Hospital in Auckland. In 2023, Skeen was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to children with cancer. She is an honorary life member of the Child Cancer Foundation, and a life member of the Australia and New Zealand Children's Haematology and Oncology Group.
Miriam Edna Saphiranée Gibson is a New Zealand lesbian activist, poet, artist and psychologist. Saphira founded New Zealand's only museum of lesbian culture, The Charlotte Museum. Saphira was awarded a New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal, a New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal, and in 2022 was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the LGBTQIA+ community.
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