Jacquie Kidd

Jacquie Kidd, Ngāpuhi, is a nurse by training and a researcher at heart. She has spent decades examining inequities and racism in the health system and uses story and poetry to bring whānau voices to the forefront of cancer care and research. A professor of Māori health at the Auckland University of Technology, Jacquie has a clinical background in nursing and almost two decades of expertise in whānau-focused Māori health equity research. Her research has concentrated on kaupapa Māori projects that have gathered whānau stories to help develop solutions to health inequities.

Significant projects that Jacquie has worked on include health literacy for Māori in palliative care; Oranga Tū, on prostate cancer for tāne Māori; and Hā Ora, on improving early diagnosis of lung cancer for Māori. Her current work includes lung cancer screening for Māori, whānau hauora assessment in the cancer pathway and anti-racism practice in healthcare. She is a trustee and co-chair of Hei Āhuru Mōwai, the Māori Cancer Leadership group, and a keynote speaker at the World Indigenous Cancer Conference in Aotearoa in 2026. Jacquie lives in Ahuriri Napier with her husband and two dogs, just a short drive from her five mokopuna.