Fa’afetai_Sopoaga
Faʻafetai Sopoaga
Professor at a New Zealand university and medical practitioner and public health researcher
Faumuinā Faʻafetai Sopoaga CNZM is a Samoan-New Zealand academic specialising in Pacific health, Pacific workforce development, Pacific students, and Pacific communities. She is a professor at the Dunedin School of Medicine at the University of Otago, Dunedin.[1] When she was appointed, she became the first Pacific woman medical doctor to be appointed in a professorial role at any university in Australia or New Zealand, and the first Pacific woman to be appointed a professor at the University of Otago.[2]