Robin Briant

Robin Helen Briant (born 1939) Briant graduated from high school in 1957 and worked as a laboratory technician for several years.

Medical career Returning to New Zealand after four years in England, Briant worked as a physician at Auckland Hospital, specialising in hypertension, and taught clinical pharmacology. In 1979 she spent time volunteering for World Vision in Thailand. She provides locum cover at Hospice Tairāwhiti. In 1993 Briant was awarded a New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal. Suffrage Medals were awarded to people who had made a significant contribution to women's rights or women's issues in New Zealand.

In 1994 Briant was appointed a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for services to the medical profession.