Heather Anne Came-Friar MNZM is a New Zealand activist, academic and anti-racism scholar, and is an adjunct professor at Victoria University of Wellington, and an anti-racism consultant. In 2023 Came-Friar was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori, education and health.
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| Other names | Heather Anne Came |
| Awards | Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Waikato, University of Otago, University of Canterbury |
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| Doctoral advisor | Maria Humphries, Suzanne Lisa Parker Grant |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Auckland University of Technology, Victoria University of Wellington |
Early life and education
editCame-Friar is a seventh-generation Pākehā New Zealander.[1] Came-Friar completed a Master of Political Science degree at the University of Canterbury, after which she became interested in public health. She earned a Certificate in Health Promotion from the University of Otago in Wellington, through distance learning.[2] She then followed this with a PhD titled Institutional Racism and the Dynamics of Privilege in Public Health at the University of Waikato.[3]
Career
editCame-Friar joined the faculty of the Auckland University of Technology, rising to associate professor in 2022.[4] In 2023 she was appointed as an adjunct professor in the Department of Public Health at Victoria University of Wellington.[2] Came conducts critical policy analysis research and activism aimed at social and racial justice, and she has campaigned for recognition of the Treaty of Waitangi. In 2013 Came-Friar founded the group STIR: Stop Institutional Racism, of which she became co-chair.[5] In 2020 she founded a series of virtual anti-racism and decolonisation gatherings called Te Tiriti based futures + Anti racism (Decol).[6][7]
Honours and awards
editIn the New Years Honours of 2023 Came was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori, education and health.[5]
In 2021 Came-Friar jointly won the Public Health Association's Kāhui Hauora Tūmatanui Public Health Champion Award.[8][9]
Selected works
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- Heather Came; Derek Griffith (16 March 2017). "Tackling racism as a "wicked" public health problem: Enabling allies in anti-racism praxis". Social Science & Medicine. 199: 181–188. doi:10.1016/J.SOCSCIMED.2017.03.028. ISSN 0277-9536. PMID 28342562. Wikidata Q53400811.
- Heather Came (April 2014). "Sites of institutional racism in public health policy making in New Zealand". Social Science & Medicine. 106: 214–220. doi:10.1016/J.SOCSCIMED.2014.01.055. ISSN 0277-9536. PMID 24583568. Wikidata Q57640728.
- Heather Came; C Doole; B McKenna; Tim McCreanor (3 June 2017). "Institutional racism in public health contracting: Findings of a nationwide survey from New Zealand". Social Science & Medicine. 199: 132–139. doi:10.1016/J.SOCSCIMED.2017.06.002. ISSN 0277-9536. PMID 28602358. Wikidata Q38731785.
- Heather Came; Dominic O'Sullivan; Jacquie D Kidd; Timothy McCreanor (1 June 2020). "The Waitangi Tribunal's WAI 2575 Report: Implications for Decolonizing Health Systems". Health and Human Rights. 22 (1): 209–220. ISSN 1079-0969. PMC 7348423. PMID 32669802. Wikidata Q97569762.
- Heather Came; D O’Sullivan; T McCreanor (5 January 2020). "Introducing critical Tiriti policy analysis through a retrospective review of the New Zealand Primary Health Care Strategy". Ethnicities. 20 (3): 434–456. doi:10.1177/1468796819896466. ISSN 1468-7968. Wikidata Q126406886.
- Heather Came; Tim McCreanor; Leanne Manson (29 March 2019). "Upholding Te Tiriti, ending institutional racism and Crown inaction on health equity". The New Zealand Medical Journal. 132 (1492): 61–66. ISSN 0028-8446. PMID 30921312. Wikidata Q92675151.
- Heather Came (November 2013). "Doing research in Aotearoa: a Pākehā exemplar of applyingTe Ara Tikaethical framework". Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal Of Social Sciences Online. 8 (1–2): 64–73. doi:10.1080/1177083X.2013.841265. ISSN 1177-083X. Wikidata Q57640732.
References
edit- ^ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
- ^ a b Clarke, Margie (23 January 2023). "Honour recognises advocacy for equity, social justice and anti-racism". Newsroom, University of Otago.
- ^ Came, Heather (2012). Institutional Racism and the Dynamics of Privilege in Public Health (PhD thesis). University of Waikato.
- ^ "New Professors and Associate Professors". AUT News. 1 November 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
- ^ a b "New Year Honours List 2023 - Citations for Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit | Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC)". www.dpmc.govt.nz. 31 December 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
- ^ "Heather Came". Community Research. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
- ^ Maasland, Shoshana (19 June 2020). "Anti-racism books fly off the shelves in NZ in wake of US protests". Te Waha Nui. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
- ^ "Heather Came". The Conversation. 19 July 2018. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
- ^ "Public Health Awards". Public Health Association. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
External links
edit- Max Harris and Heather Came on proposed treaty legislation, Moana Maniapoto sits down with Max Harris and Heather Came, 27 March 2024, via YouTube