Rate My Professor Ken Taiapa

Taiapa's career encompasses extensive public health research and evaluation experience at Whāriki Research Centre, covering Whānau Ora, Māori health workforce development, health service design and delivery, sexual and reproductive health for young Māori males, media and racism, and positive youth development. His PhD examined a hapū mārakai initiative, documenting healing through reconnection to whenua. Notable publications include "Climate change and mātauranga Māori: making sense of a western environmental construct" (Kōtuitui, 2025, with H.M. Barnes and S. Wright), "Tension without tikanga: the damaging face of the treaty claims settlement system" (AlterNative, 2021, with H.M. Barnes and T. McCreanor), "Mārakai as sites of ahi kaa and resistance" (MAI Journal, 2021, with H.M. Barnes and T. McCreanor), and "Participants’ and caregivers’ experiences of a multidisciplinary programme for healthy lifestyle change" (BMJ Open, 2021, with Y.C. Anderson et al.). Earlier contributions address Māori responses to racism (MAI Journal, 2013) and anti-Māori themes in journalism (Pacific Journalism Review, 2012). Of Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau ā Apanui, and Rongowhakaata iwi, Taiapa advances Māori perspectives in public health.