Moana Theodore

Reremoana Farquharson Theodore is a New Zealand epidemiologist and Professor specialising in longitudinal research. She is the director of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study and was director of the University of Otago's National Centre for Lifecourse Research in Dunedin.

Early life and education Theodore is of Ngāpuhi descent, and she grew up in Auckland and attended Papatoetoe High School.

PhD and research career Theodore gained her PhD from the University of Auckland in 2008.

Theodore was awarded a Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie Postdoctoral Fellowship,

Organisational affiliations Theodore served on the Council of New Zealand's academy of sciences, the Royal Society Te Apārangi, from 2018 to 2021. She was a ministerial appointment to the Southern District Health Board from 2019 to 2022.