Sue Crengle

Sue Crengle
Crengle in 2023
Born	Waiouru, New Zealand
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Auckland
Theses	Mā Papatuanuku, ka Tipu ngā Rākau: a case study of the well child health programme provided by Te Whānau O Waipareira Trust (1997) The management of children's asthma in primary care : Are there ethnic differences in care? (2008)
Doctoral advisor	Paul Brown, Bruce Arroll
Academic work
Institutions	University of Otago

Suzanne Marie Crengle is a New Zealand Māori academic, of Kāti Māmoe, Kāi Tahu and Waitaha descent and as of 2020 is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in public health medicine.

Early life

Crengle was born in Waiouru, and grew up in Wellington and Auckland. Her father was in the navy. She attended Mana College, where her parents had to complain to the local MP to have the streaming system changed so that it was possible for her to both be in the top class and take te reo Māōri.

Academic career

Crengle graduated in medicine from the University of Auckland in 1985. She notes that there were three other Māori students in her class, whereas nowadays a typical cohort might have fifty. She then completed a master's degree titled Mā Papatuanuku, ka Tipu ngā Rākau: a case study of the well child health programme provided by Te Whānau O Waipareira Trust in 1997, supervised by Fiona Cram. She then completed a PhD titled The management of children's asthma in primary care: Are there ethnic differences in care? at the University of Auckland.

Crengle then moved to the University of Otago, rising to full professor. She resides in Invercargill, where she practises one day a week. Her research focuses on issues of inequity in the health system, where she says some metrics are getting worse, such as the percentage of Māori women participating in cervical screening. She also teaches in public health and Māori health at the university.

In 2021 she was appointed to the Māori Health Authority as part of the reformation of the health system. She said "It’s exciting that there’s such an explicit focus on equity and improving Māori health outcomes across the whole reform."

Selected works

• Ian Anderson; Sue Crengle; Martina Leialoha Kamaka; Tai-Ho Chen; Neal Palafox; Lisa Jackson Pulver (1 May 2006). "Indigenous health in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific". The Lancet. 367 (9524): 1775–1785. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68773-4. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 16731273. Wikidata Q36491217.
• Cameron Grant; Alistair W Stewart; Robert Scragg; et al. (16 December 2013). "Vitamin D during pregnancy and infancy and infant serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration". Pediatrics. 133 (1): e143-53. doi:10.1542/PEDS.2013-2602. ISSN 0031-4005. PMID 24344104. Wikidata Q57385047.
• Mathijs F G Lucassen; Sally N Merry; Elizabeth M Robinson; Simon Denny; Terryann Clark; Shanthi Ameratunga; Sue Crengle; Fiona V Rossen (2 March 2011). "Sexual attraction, depression, self-harm, suicidality and help-seeking behaviour in New Zealand secondary school students". Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 45 (5): 376–383. doi:10.3109/00048674.2011.559635. ISSN 0004-8674. PMID 21361850. Wikidata Q48901132.
• Sue Crengle; Elizabeth Robinson; Shanthi Ameratunga; Terryann Clark; Deborah Raphael (18 January 2012). "Ethnic discrimination prevalence and associations with health outcomes: data from a nationally representative cross-sectional survey of secondary school students in New Zealand". BMC Public Health. 12: 45. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-45. ISSN 1471-2458. PMC 3315751. PMID 22257643. Wikidata Q34132449.

External links

• Crengle's inaugural professorial lecture in 2022