Esther Tumama Cowley-Malcolm

Esther Tumama Cowley-Malcolm is a Samoan-New Zealand health researcher and practitioner. Cowley-Malcolm completed a Masters degree at Auckland University of Technology in 2005. Her masters thesis was titled Some Samoans' perceptions, values and beliefs on the role of parents and children within the context of aiga/family and the influence of fa'asamoa and the church on Samoan parenting. She did her PhD in Pacific Cultural Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington, she was the first women graduate of the Pacific studies programme. Her doctoral thesis was titled Perceptions of Samoan Parents from a Small Town in New Zealand on Parenting, Childhood Aggression, and the CD-ROM 'Play Nicely' .

Offices Board member of the Health Research Council of New Zealand Chair of the Health Research Council of New Zealand Pacific Research Advisory Committee Director at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi Member of the Parenting Council of New Zealand Member of the New Zealand Medical Laboratory Science Board Chairperson of Pacific Development and conservation Trust (formerly the rainbow warrior trust) National secretary of PACIFICA Inco Member of The Health Research Council of NZ Member of the Quaker Education Trust Inaugural Chair of Newmarket School Board of Trustees Member of The Wesley College Board of Trustees Member/ secretary of Allen Nixon Trust Member of Consultative Committee on Community Relations (Brisbane, Australia).

Awards Loxley Award 2015, Quaker Peace and Service Aotearoa New Zealand HRC PhD Pacific scholarship Member of NZ order of Merit (MNZM)