Esther Tumama Cowley-Malcolm is a Samoan-New Zealand health researcher and practitioner. Cowley-Malcolm completed a Masters degree at Auckland University of Technology in 2005. Her masters thesis was titled ''Some Samoans' perceptions, values and beliefs on the role of parents and children within the context of aiga/family and the influence of fa'asamoa and the church on Samoan parenting''. She did her

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in Pacific Cultural Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington, she was the first women graduate of the

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programme. Her doctoral thesis was titled ''Perceptions of Samoan Parents from a Small Town in New Zealand on Parenting, Childhood Aggression, and the CD-ROM 'Play Nicely' ''.

Offices

* Board member of the Health Research Council of New Zealand * Chair of the Health Research Council of New Zealand Pacific Research Advisory Committee * Director at

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* Member of the Parenting Council of New Zealand * Member of the New Zealand Medical Laboratory Science Board

Awards

* Loxley Award 2015, Quaker Peace and Service Aotearoa New Zealand

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