Elana Taipapaki Curtis

Dr Elana Taipapaki Curtis (Ngati Rongomai, Ngati Pikiao, Te Arawa) is a Public Health Physician currently working as Senior Lecturer Medical at Te Kupenga Hauora Maori, University of Auckland.

She is Kaiarahi of Hikitia Te Ora - Certificate in Health Sciences, a pre-degree programme aimed at increasing the number of Maori and Pacific students entering into Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing and Health Sciences.

In 2004-2005, Elana was a Harkness Fellow in Healthcare Policy based at the University of California (San Francisco) - investigating ethnic disparities in breast cancer mortality and survival. Prior to this, Elana worked at the National Screening Unit, Ministry of Health in Wellington where she investigated Maori:non-Maori disparities in breast cancer epidemiology, and at Te Ropu Rangahau Hauora a Eru Pomare – Maori Health Research Centre at the University of Otago investigating ethnic disparities in access to invasive cardiovascular procedures/caesarean sections and the relationship between disparities and deprivation.