New research has identified how severely under-represented Māori and Pasifika students are in the country's medical and health schools.
Māori make up about 17-percent of the population, and Pasifika about 8-percent - but in the 5 years to 2020, the two groups made up only 7-percent of those studying health professions, such as nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, and medicine.
The research was led by University of Otago Professor Peter Crampton at the centre for Hauora Māori.
He spoke to Māni Dunlop
