Faʻafetai Sopoaga
Faʻafetai Sopoaga | |
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Sopoaga in 2022 | |
| Born | Samoa |
| Alma mater | University of Otago |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University 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.