Watch Popcorn Panellists chatting about the Simpson report and Māori health

Peter Crampton

Peter Crampton is a professor of public health in Kōhatu, the Centre for Hauora Māori, at the University of Otago. He researches and teaches Māori health, health systems and public health. He started his professional life as a GP and later specialised in public health medicine. He was a member of the Government’s Health and Disability System Review panel, which was tasked with making recommendations on the future of New Zealand’s health system.

Kēri Rātima

Kēri Rātima (Te Whakatōhea) is a GP in Ōpōtiki. She has a particular interest in a health system in Aotearoa which gives practical expression to Te Tiriti o Waitangi principles. She supports a Māori Health Authority with a commissioning role. She wholeheartedly agrees with the alternate view in the report, that commissioning would best begin with Māori workforce development programmes, and Māori provider development and innovation funding to improve Māori health. She notes there is currently a petition, created by a Ōpōtiki residents, calling on the Government to adopt Māori commissioning.

Gabrielle Baker

Gabrielle Baker (Ngāpuhi) is a former public servant and Māori health policy practitioner who now works as a consultant with clients committed to developing a pro-equity, anti-racist health and disability system. Gabrielle also has a strong interest in the application of Te Tiriti o Waitangi across the health and disability system.

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