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Adjunct Professor Clive Aspin

BA, DipELT, Dip Tchg, MA(Dist) (VUW), PhD (Otago)

Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Whanaunga, Ngāti Tamaterā

Adjunct Professor Clive Aspin was the inaugural Associate Dean Māori in the Faculty of Health at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington and is currently an adjunct professor in Health.

He was born in Waiuku and grew up on his ancestral land of Hauraki. Clive is a Māori public health researcher whose work focuses on Māori and Indigenous health, HIV, sexuality, and suicide prevention. He was the Executive Research Officer at Ngā Pae o te Maramatanga, New Zealand’s centre of Māori research excellence.

He served as a ministerial appointment to the Board of the Health Research Council and as Chair of the Māori Research Committee and is a founding member of the International Indigenous Working Group on HIV and AIDS.