Ridvan Tupai-Firestone

Ridvan Tupai-Firestone (known as Riz) is a Professor in Pacific Public Health at Massey University whose research is social and cultural health inequalities, diabetes, community interventions for obesity and other diet-related health problems, and works with young Pacific people with non-communicable diseases and is an expert in the co-design methodology. She was the Pacific Strategy Leader for the A Better Start National Science Challenge, and currently Chair of the Lottery Health Research Committee, and a member of the Health Research Council.