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Kōrero: Women’s health

Rapuora study team

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<em>Rapuora</em> study team

When the Maori Women’s Welfare League’s planned its Rapuora: health and Maori women research, it kept management of the study in-house and developed the project with close community involvement. Led by research director Elizabeth Murchie (left), Rapuorawas produced in 1984 using new methods based on Māori cultural practices. Also shown here are league president Georgina Kirby, and one of the Rapuorawriters, Mīria Simpson.

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Māori Women's Welfare League

Reference: Elizabeth Murchie, Rapuora: health and Maori women. Wellington: Maori Women’s Welfare League, 1984, p. 14

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Megan Cook, Women’s health – Māori women’s health activism, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/31502/rapuora-study-team (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Megan Cook, i tāngia i te 3 May 2011.