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Contact Details

Phone
+64 4 385 5418
Email
donna.cormack@otago.ac.nz
Position
Senior Research Fellow
Department
Department of Public Health (Wellington)
Qualifications
BA (Hons) MA
Research summary
Māori health and cancer

Research

Donna (Waitaha, Kāti Mamoe, Kai Tahu) has been involved in work on the collection and classification of ethnicity data in New Zealand, particularly as it relates to measuring and monitoring disparities.

Most recently, Donna has been focused on work examining disparities in cancer outcomes and access to cancer services for Māori. She is involved in the Differential Colon Cancer Survival by Ethnicity in New Zealand project as well as Unequal Treatment: The Role of Health Services with Te Rōpū Rangahau Hauora a Eru Pōmare.

Donna has recently moved to a position at the University of Auckland.

Publications

King, P. T., Paki Paki, N., Cormack, D., Davies, C., Timutimu, R., Baker, G., Ingham, T., Jones, B., Cole, M., & Kemp, C. (2026). Poipoia te kākano kia puāwai: The operationalisation of Māori data sovereignty in Aotearoa: A scoping literature review. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 56, e70029. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/snz2.70029 Journal - Research Other

Colhoun, S., Norris, P., Keddell, E., Cormack, D., & Willing, E. (2025). The role of differing cultural perspectives in interRAI assessments. Proceedings of the New Zealand Association of Gerontology (NZAG) Conference: Ageing Together. (pp. 36). Retrieved from http://gerontology.org.nz Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

King, P. T., Petrović-van der Deen, F. S., McLeod, M., Harris, R., Davies, C., Cormack, D., Ingham, T., Jones, B., Robson, B., … Tuari-Toma, B., Stairmand, J., Cole, M., Pehi, T., … Cunningham, R. (2025). The undercounting of Indigenous Māori imprisoned by the New Zealand carceral state: A national record study. Health & Justice, 13, 48. doi: 10.1186/s40352-025-00355-3 Journal - Research Article

Haitana, T., Pitama, S., Cormack, D., Clark, M. T. R., & Lacey, C. (2024). How does the health system structure influence the experience of bipolar disorder care? Learning from the expertise of indigenous patients and their family. Bipolar Disorders, 26(Suppl. 1), (pp. 60-61). doi: 10.1111/bdi.13475 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Keddell, E., Colhoun, S., Norris, P., Willing, E., & Cormack, D. (2024). Where do big data come from? The social production of child protection ‘reports of concern’. Proceedings of the Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ) Conference: The Sociology to Come. Retrieved from https://www.saanz.net/saanz2024/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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