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Biography: Prior, Ian Ambury Miller

Pacific health

A doctor in a white coat conducts a blood pressure test on a young child, who smiles at the camera.

Dr Ian Prior providing a health check to a young migrant who had recently arrived in New Zealand under the Tokelau Resettlement Scheme in 1966. Prior’s team conducted an extensive comparative study of the health of Tokelauans, both in New Zealand and at home, over the following years.

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Bettina Bradbury. 'Prior, Ian Ambury Miller', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2025. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/47944/pacific-health (accessed 25 June 2026).