Name: MDHS Dean's Global Indigenous Health Lecture - Professor Martina Kamaka
Start: 2025-10-16T13:00:00+11:00
End: 2025-10-16T14:30:00+11:00
Location: Old Quadrangle Building

MDHS Dean's Global Indigenous Health Lecture - Professor Martina Kamaka

Join us to welcome Profess Martina Kamaka, Global Indigenous Health Fellow, in a special event on Indigenous health and cultural competency.
About this Event

Join Professor Mike McGuckin, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences (MDHS), and Professor Sandra Eades, Deputy Dean (Indigenous), as we welcome Professor Martina Kamaka, this year’s distinguished Global Indigenous Health Fellow.

Prof Kamaka will share insights from her work during a keynote lecture, followed by a Q&A session. The event will conclude with refreshments and an opportunity for networking.

Martina, a Native Hawai‘ian physician and associate professor from Kāneohe, Hawai‘i, received her medical degree from the JABSOM, the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. After completing her family medicine residency in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, she worked in primary care until joining the faculty at JABSOM in 1999. She is passionate about cultural competency training and Indigenous health, and is actively involved in the ‘Ahahui o nā Kauka (Association of Native Hawai‘ian Physicians), the Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress and the National Council for Asian and Pacific Islander Physicians.