Evelyn Macdonald MBChB

Evelyn Jane MacDonald has been a sexual health physician with clinical experience in women's reproductive health for 25 years, and a researcher for 11 years with an interest in maternal health, maternal and neonatal morbidity, HIV in women, and abortion medicine worldwide. Her current research interest is the applicability of HPV self-testing in the New Zealand setting.

Jane joined the team in 2011 and was the project manager of the Severe Acute Maternal Morbidity (SAMM) Study translated into practice by the Ministry of Health under the auspices of the Health Quality and Safety Commission in 2016. She is a sexual health physician with a background in obstetrics and gynecology and her interest is in the provision of safe and equitable maternity, sexual and reproductive health care worldwide. She was the clinical director of the regional sexual health service in Wellington for 10 years and worked for NGO Medecins Du Monde (MDM) in 2005 to help set up HIV and sexual health care for sex workers and injecting drug users and their families in Myanmar (Burma). She has training in forensic sexual assault examination and care, is a Fellow of the Chapter of Sexual Health Medicine (Royal Australasian College of Physicians), and continues to teach medical students and postgraduate clinicians in sexual and reproductive health medicine.