Sue Crengle
Crengle in 2023
Born
Waiouru, New Zealand
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
Theses
Doctoral advisorPaul Brown, Bruce Arroll
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Otago

Suzanne Marie Crengle is a New Zealand Māori academic, of Kāti Māmoe, Kāi Tahu and Waitaha descent and as of 2020 is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in public health medicine.

Early life

Crengle was born in Waiouru, and grew up in Wellington and Auckland. Her father was in the navy.[1] She attended Mana College, where her parents had to complain to the local MP to have the streaming system changed so that it was possible for her to both be in the top class and take te reo Māōri.[1]

Academic career

Crengle graduated in medicine from the University of Auckland in 1985. She notes that there were three other Māori students in her class, whereas nowadays a typical cohort might have fifty.[2] She then completed a master's degree titled Mā Papatuanuku, ka Tipu ngā Rākau: a case study of the well child health programme provided by Te Whānau O Waipareira Trust in 1997.[3] She then completed a PhD titled The management of children's asthma in primary care: Are there ethnic differences in care? at the University of Auckland.[4]

Crengle then moved to the University of Otago, rising to full professor.[1][5] She resides in Invercargill, where she practises one day a week.[2] Her research focuses on issues of inequity in the health system, where she says some metrics are getting worse, such as the percentage of Māori women participating in cervical screening.[2] She also teaches in public health and Māori health at the university.[2]

In 2021 she was appointed to the Māori Health Authority as part of the reformation of the health system.[2] She said "It’s exciting that there’s such an explicit focus on equity and improving Māori health outcomes across the whole reform."[2]

Selected works

References

  1. 1 2 3 Husband, Dale (6 May 2023). "Dr Sue Crengle: Our health inequities and colonisation". E-Tangata. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Professor Sue Crengle - GP and a public health physician". The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
  3. ↑ Crengle, Sue (1997). Mā Papatuanuku, ka Tipu ngā Rākau: a case study of the well child health programme provided by Te Whānau O Waipareira Trust (Master's thesis thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland.
  4. ↑ Crengle, Suzanne Marie (2008). The management of children's asthma in primary care : Are there ethnic differences in care? (PhD thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland.
  5. ↑ University of Otago (2 August 2023). "Profile: Professor Sue Crengle". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
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