Riz Tupai-Firestone
Riz Tupai-Firestone | |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | Massey University, University of Canterbury |
Thesis | |
Doctoral advisor | Philippa Gander |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Massey University |
Ridvan Tupai-Firestone (known as Riz) is a Samoan–New Zealand academic, and is from January 2025 is a full professor in the Centre for Public Health Research at Massey University. Tupai-Firestone works on social and cultural health inequalities.
Early life and education
[edit]Tupai-Firestone was born in Samoa, and moved to New Zealand with her family in 1976.[1] She has links to the villages of Falealupu on Savai’i island and Matautu on Falealili.[1] Tupai-Firestone completed a Bachelor of Speech and Language Therapy at the University of Canterbury and then a PhD titled Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome among taxi drivers: consequences and barriers to accessing health services at the Massey University.[2][1]
Academic career
[edit]Tupai-Firestone joined the faculty of Massey University, rising to associate professor in 2021 and full professor in 2025.[3][1] She first worked in sleep science at the Moe Tika Moe Pai SleepWake Research Centre before focusing on public health.[1] She is interested in social-cultural and health inequalities, community interventions for obesity and other diet-related health problems, and works with young Pacific people with non-communicable diseases.[4][5] In 2020 she was awarded a Marsden grant to lead a team from five institutions to investigate associations between culture, food systems, diet and traditional practices, and diet-related diseases.[6]
Tupai-Firestone was the Pacific Strategy Leader for the A Better Start National Science Challenge, and was also part of the Healthier Lives challenge.[7][8]
She was appointed Chair of the Lottery Health Research Committee in 2020.[9] She was also on the jury of the 2024 Falling Walls Lab.[4]
Awards
[edit]In 2014 Tupai-Firestone was awarded the New Zealand Health Research Council’s Sir Thomas Davis Te Patu Kite Rangi Ariki Health Research Fellowship.[10]
Selected works
[edit]- Helen Eyles; Andrew Jull; Rosie Dobson; Ridvan Firestone; Robyn Whittaker; Lisa Te Morenga; Debbie Goodwin; Cliona Ni Mhurchu (4 July 2016). "Co-design of mHealth Delivered Interventions: A Systematic Review to Assess Key Methods and Processes". Current nutrition reports. 5 (3): 160–167. doi:10.1007/S13668-016-0165-7. ISSN 2161-3311. Wikidata Q57752640.
- Lisa Te Morenga; Crystal Pekepo; Callie Corrigan; et al. (23 January 2018). "Co-designing an mHealth tool in the New Zealand Māori community with a "Kaupapa Māori" approach". AlterNative. 14 (1): 90–99. doi:10.1177/1177180117753169. ISSN 1177-1801. Wikidata Q60441829.
- Paolo Bajardi; Daniela Paolotti; Alessandro Vespignani; et al. (9 December 2014). "Association between recruitment methods and attrition in Internet-based studies". PLOS One. 9 (12): e114925. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...9k4925B. doi:10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0114925. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4260912. PMID 25490045. Wikidata Q34663234.
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: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - Fiona McKenzie; Lis Ellison-Loschmann; Mona Jeffreys; Ridvan Firestone; Neil Pearce; Isabelle Romieu (10 January 2014). "Healthy lifestyle and risk of breast cancer for indigenous and non-indigenous women in New Zealand: a case control study". BMC Cancer. 14: 12. doi:10.1186/1471-2407-14-12. ISSN 1471-2407. PMC 3893580. PMID 24410858. Wikidata Q41874946.
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: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - Ridvan T. Firestone; Philippa H. Gander (27 August 2010). "Exploring knowledge and attitudes of taxi drivers with regard to obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome". The New Zealand Medical Journal. 123 (1321): 24–33. ISSN 0028-8446. PMID 20927154. Wikidata Q48337612.
- Ridvan Firestone; Soo Cheng; Neil Pearce; et al. (12 June 2015). "Internet-Based Birth-Cohort Studies: Is This the Future for Epidemiology?". JMIR research protocols. 4 (2): e71. doi:10.2196/RESPROT.3873. ISSN 1929-0748. PMC 4526937. PMID 26071071. Wikidata Q35922372.
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References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "2024 Professorial promotions announced". www.massey.ac.nz. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ^ Tupai-Firestone, Ridvan (2006). Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome among taxi drivers: consequences and barriers to accessing health services (PhD thesis). Massey University. hdl:10179/1581.
- ^ "2021 Professorial promotions announced". www.massey.ac.nz. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ^ a b "Falling Walls Lab Aotearoa New Zealand Jury". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ^ Centre, Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research (11 October 2019). "Introducing the Evidence to Everyday symposium speakers and chairs". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ^ "Marsden Fund awards 2020". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ^ "Associate Professor Ridvan (Riz) Firestone - Healthier Lives". Healthier Lives National Science Challenge. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ^ "Announcing our new Pasifika Strategy theme leader | A Better Start - National Science Challenge". www.abetterstart.nz. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ^ "People » Centre for Public Health Research". publichealth.massey.ac.nz. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ^ "Dr Ridvan Firestone | OL@OR@". olaora.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
External links
[edit]- Ridvan Firestone talking about her HRC-funded research, Jul 3, 2017, via YouTube