Our postgraduate students

Meet some of our postgraduate students and hear what they say about studying at our internationally recognised faculty.

Morgan, of Ngāti Maru, chose to study toward a Master of Nursing to empower Māori nurses to take centre stage in hospice care.

Morgan's story

Tristram Allen chose to continue his postgraduate studies in his home of Whangārei at the Tai Tokerau Campus in Northland.

Tristram's story

Postgraduate Public Health Diploma student, Jonah Tangaroa talks about his journey through University and towards pursuing health equity in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

Jonah's story

Libby Martin was inspired to pursue postgraduate study after an undergraduate project allowed her to explore the intersection of two medical sciences.

Libby's story

Summer Rangimaarie Wright (Ngāti Maniapoto) is taking a Māori Health and climate justice approach to her Master of Health Sciences in Nutrition and Dietetics.

Summer's story

Rachel Lampkin has learned how fulfilling postgraduate study can be after coming back to it over 25 years later.

Rachel's story

Mikkol Gabriel Macabali completed his postgraduate study in Mental Health Nursing so he could contribute to a rapidly progressing field of health.

Mikkol's story

Hannah Rapata (Ngāi Tahu) is using her Master of Health Sciences in Nutrition and Dietetics to help improve equity for Māori health outcomes.

Hannah's story

In the Philippines, mental health is a taboo topic. Eivry Kerxen Ambe is hoping to change that by studying health sciences in Auckland.

Eivry's story

Josh Cronin-Lampe studied a Master of Public Health because he wanted to affect policy and real change towards improving equity, population health and wellbeing.

Josh's story

Stella Williams-Terei hopes that her work researching Māori cancer nurses, inspires future generations of Māori health professionals in Aotearoa.

Stella's story

Emelia Masari's Master of Health Sciences helped prepare her for a career as a project analyst at Synergia.

Emelia’s story

International student Marilia Couto chose to study the Master of Health Leadership to transition from clinical medicine into management.

Marilia's story

Jessee Fia’Ali’I is a health psychologist working with underserved communities, and encourages other Pacific youth to do the same with the PGDipHealthPsych.

Jessee's story

Through her doctoral research in obstetrics and gynaecology, Robin Cronin has become an author, speaker, teacher, traveller, and researcher.

Robin's story