September 26, 2025 | Paakiwaha
What we learnt from Cyclone Gabrielle & maternity care
Dr Sarah Lockwood is a maternal health researcher whose groundbreaking study on Cyclone Gabrielle reveals how pregnant women and midwives—especially Māori—were left invisible in disaster planning and calls for urgent reform to embed maternity care and Māori leadership into Aotearoa’s emergency response systems.