Faʻafetai Sopoaga

Faʻafetai Sopoaga
Sopoaga in 2022
Born
Samoa
Alma materUniversity of Otago
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Otago
Thesis

Faumuinā Faʻafetai Sopoaga CNZM is a Samoan-New Zealand academic specialising in Pacific health, Pacific workforce development, Pacific students, and Pacific communities. She is a professor at the Dunedin School of Medicine at the University of Otago, Dunedin. When she was appointed, she became the first Pacific woman medical doctor to be appointed in a professorial role at any university in Australia or New Zealand, and the first Pacific woman to be appointed a professor at the University of Otago.