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November 11, 2024
Graduate creates resource for Māori bloodwork
Atereano Mateariki
Posted On November 11, 2024
Download AudioA soon-to-be graduate from Te Waka Hiringa – Te Wānanga o Aotearoa says her Master’s degree has been a journey of discovering her identity as a practitioner of Applied Indigenous Knowledge within the field of medical science.
Graduating this week, Dayna Hoey-Samuels, a medical laboratory technician, is developing a bicultural resource for bloodwork kaimahi, which will be launched in November 2025.
Her studies have highlighted the low representation of Māori in her field and ways to increase their involvement.
“We don’t actually have that many Māori in the medical science field. To my knowledge, there are about 200 practitioners out of 1200 within Aotearoa. And if we consider how many the statistics of how many Māori use the service. It doesn’t make sense,” says Hoey-Samuel.
Hoey-Samuels says this achievement will be dedicated to her late mother, who inspired her to start the degree.
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