Harkness Project Title: Health Status, Health Care Services, Access and Utilization for American Indian/Alaska Native Peoples

Mentors: Barbara Starfield, M.D., and George R. Brenneman, M.D.

Placement: Bloomberg School of Public Health

Biography at time of Harkness Fellowship: Suzanne M. Crengle, M.B.Ch.B., a 1999–2000 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy, is a practicing physician and a senior lecturer in Maori Health at the University of Auckland.  She is also director of the Tomaiora Maori Health Research Group, whose research focuses Maori children, young people and their families. Crengle’s research interests include the primary care management of childhood asthma, nutritional status infants aged six to 23 months and adolescent health. She served as a member of the executive of Te ORA (the National Maori Medical Practitioners Association) and the council of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. Crengle is a specialist qualified in General Practice (Family Medicine).

Current Position: Senior Lecturer, Department of Maori and Pacific Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Auckland. (Updated January 2012)

E-Mail: s.crengle@auckland.ac.nz

Harkness-Related Publications

Hosking J, Ameratunga S, Bramley D, Crengle S. Reducing ethnic disparities in the quality of trauma care: an important research gap. Annuals of Surgery. 2011 Feb;253(2):233-7. Review.

Crengle SM. "The Development of Maori Primary Care Services," Pacific Health Dialogue, March 2001;7(1):48–53.