Jacquie Kidd

Jacqueline Dianne Kidd (Ngāpuhi) is a Māori academic, and is a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology, specialising in Māori health and anti-racism in health practices and processes.

Academic career

Kidd is affiliated to Ngapuhi through her mother, although her father was born in England of Irish heritage, and came to New Zealand in the 1950s with Wirth's Circus, where he worked with horses. The family moved around a lot when Kidd was growing up, but historically she is connected to Parawhenua and Rāwhitiroa marae. When she left school Kidd would have liked to be a journalist, but had failed school certificate. Kidd married, and by the time her marriage ended had two young children. Kidd completed a PhD titled Aroha mai: nurses, nursing and mental illness at the University of Auckland. Kidd then joined the faculty of the University of Auckland as a senior lecturer, leaving in 2019 to join Auckland University of Technology, where she was promoted to associate professor in 2020 and to full professor in 2023. She researches anti-racism in health services, cultural health literacy, and for fifteen years has been involved in cancer research. The age of eligibility for free screening was dropped to 50 for Pacific and Māori people from late 2023.

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