Faumuina Assoc. Professor Faafetai Sopoaga winner of Prime Minister's Supreme Award for Tertiary Teaching Photo: supplied
Faumuina Associate Professor Fa'afetai Sopoaga has just won the Prime Minister's Supreme Award for Excellence in Tertiary Teaching. Based at the University of Otago medical programme, Faumuina is credited with single-handedly getting Pacific health onto the curriculum at the university.
Her achievements have been introducing a Pacific Immersion Programme where 4th year medical students spend a weekend with a Pacific family in Dunedin and increasing the number of Pasific students training to be doctors.
