(Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Whanaunga, Ngāti Tamaterā)

Dr. Clive Aspin is the inaugural Associate Dean Māori in the Faculty of Health at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa where he is also a Senior Lecturer in Health. He has recently been seconded to the newly established Māori Health Authority to help set up their research agenda.

He was born in Waiuku and grew up in his ancestral land of Hauraki. Clive is a Māori public health researcher whose work focuses on Māori and Indigenous health, HIV, sexuality, and suicide prevention. He was the Executive Research Officer at Ngā Pae o te Maramatanga, New Zealand’s center of Māori research excellence.

He served as a ministerial appointment to the Board of the Health Research Council of New Zealand and as Chair of the Māori Health Research Committee where he has played a key role in determining Aotearoa’s health research strategy. He is a founding member of the International Indigenous Working Group on HIV and AIDS.