Jemaima Tiatia-Siau
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Jemaima Tiatia-Siau is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Auckland specialising in Pacific Studies and mental health and wellbeing. Tiatia has studied suicide in the Pacific community in New Zealand, conducting the first national review of suicide deaths, and writing national guidelines for postvention. In 2024 Tiatia-Siau was elected a Foundation Fellow of the Pacific Academy of Sciences. She is the first Pacific woman Pro Vice-Chancellor at any New Zealand university.
Academic career
Tiatia-Siau is of Samoan descent, and was born in Tokoroa and raised in West Auckland.{{Cite news |last=Tapaleao |first=Vaimoana |date=11 Jun 2021 |title='Racist rant': Pasifika university academic subjected to abusive message after speech on her background |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/racist-rant-pasifika-university-academic-subjected-to-abusive-message-after-speech-on-her-background/BDQHDMXXG66Y4SYWWIQXHW5XUA/ |work=The New Zealand Herald}} She completed a master's thesis in 1997 at the University of Auckland, with a thesis on the relationship between the church and Pacific Island youth.{{Cite thesis|title=The church: friend or foe for our Pacific Island youth?: a New Zealand born perspective|last=Tiatia|first=Jemaima|type=Master's thesis|publisher=ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland|url=https://hdl.handle.net/2292/20678|date=1997|hdl=2292/20678 }} Her thesis was later published by the Christian Research Association as the book Caught Between Cultures. Tiatia-Siau then completed a PhD in community health, also at Auckland, focusing on attitudes to suicide in Samoan youth.{{cite thesis|title= Reasons to live : N.Z. born Samoan young people's responses to suicidal behaviours|date=2003|publisher= University of Auckland|last=Tiatia|first=Jemaima|type=PhD thesis|url=https://auckland.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/64UAUCK_INST/13vfdcn/alma99120843414002091}} Tiatia-Siau then joined the faculty of the University of Auckland, rising to full professor in 2024.{{Cite web |title=Five generations herald birth of professor - The University of Auckland |url=https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2024/09/19/five-generations-heralds-birth-of-professor.html |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=www.auckland.ac.nz}} Tiatia-Siau is a Professor of Pacific Studies, and in 2022 was appointed as Pro-Vice Chancellor Pacific.{{Cite web |title=Pro Vice-Chancellor Pacific - The University of Auckland |url=https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/about-us/about-the-university/the-university/governance-and-committees/management-team/pvc-pacific.html |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=www.auckland.ac.nz}}{{Cite web |last=Mayron |first=Sapeer |date=22 January 2022 |title=First Pasifika woman promoted to pro vice-chancellor level at Auckland University |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/127557645/first-pasifika-woman-promoted-to-pro-vicechancellor-level-at-auckland-university |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=www.stuff.co.nz}} She is the first Pacific woman Pro Vice-Chancellor at any New Zealand university. Tiatia-Siau also served on the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission, established as a Crown entity after the 2018 He Ara Oranga inquiry into mental health and addiction, of which she was one of six panelists.
Tiatia-Siau's research covers suicide prevention and postvention, youth development, health and wellbeing, and climate change and mental wellbeing.{{Cite web |title=Jemaima Tiatia-Siau – Fofonga for Pacific Research Excellence |url=https://www.fofonga.nz/researchers/tiatia-jemaima/ |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=www.fofonga.nz}}{{Cite news |last=Mayron |first=Sapeer |date=29 October 2020 |title=Climate change migration will impact mental health |url=https://www.samoaobserver.ws/category/samoa/73403 |work=Samoa Observer}} Tiatia-Siau conducted the first review of suicide deaths in the New Zealand Pacific community, and then wrote national guidelines for postvention, interventions taken to reduce the likelihood of further suicidal behaviours and associated psychological impacts.
Honours and awards
In 2024, Tiatia-Siau was elected a Foundation Fellow of the Pacific Academy of Sciences.{{Cite web |title=Jemaima Tiatia-Siau |url=https://council.science/profile/jemaima-tiatia-siau-3/ |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=International Science Council |language=en-US}}
Selected works
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- {{Cite report |last=Tiatia |first=J. |title=Pacific cultural competencies: A literature review |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=IknZWQ0AAAAJ&citation_for_view=IknZWQ0AAAAJ:9yKSN-GCB0IC |year=2008 |date= |publisher=Ministry of Health |place=Wellington |pages=50}}
- {{Cite journal |title=Suicide mortality among Pacific peoples in New Zealand, 1996–2013 |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=IknZWQ0AAAAJ&citation_for_view=IknZWQ0AAAAJ:ce2CqMG-AY4C |last1=Tiatia-Seath |first1=Jemaima |last2=Lay Yee |first2=Roy |last3=Von Randow |first3=Martin |journal=New Zealand Medical Journal |volume=130 |issue=1454 |pages=21–29 |date=28 Apr 2017 |pmid=28449013}}
- {{Cite report |title=Youth19 Rangatahi Smart Survey, initial findings: Hauora hinengaro/emotional and mental health |first1=T |last1=Fleming |first2=J |last2=Tiatia-Seath |first3=R |last3=Peiris-John |first4=K |last4=Sutcliffe |first5=D |last5=Archer |first6=L |last6=Bavin |first7=S |last7=Crengle |author7-link=Sue Crengle |first8=T |last8=Clark |date=12 August 2020 |publisher=The Youth19 Research Group, The University of Auckland and Victoria University of Wellington |place=New Zealand}}
- {{Cite book |last=Tiatia |first=J. |title=Caught between cultures: a New Zealand-born Pacific Island perspective |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=IknZWQ0AAAAJ&citation_for_view=IknZWQ0AAAAJ:d1gkVwhDpl0C |pages=177 |publisher=Christian Research Association |place=Auckland, N.Z. |year=1998}}
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References
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External links
- Jemaima Tiatia-Siau's Inaugural Lecture: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DGg4Qv-Erc A Voyage of Resilience: Navigating Mental Health, Wellbeing, Heritage, and Academia], 13 Sep 2024, via YouTube
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