Lynette Stewart
{{Short description|New Zealand healthcare administrator (born 1943 or 1944)}}
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Lynette Merle Stewart {{post-nominals|country=NZL|CNZM}} (née Peters, born {{Birth based on age as of date|62|2006|06|05|noage=1}}) is a New Zealand executive specialising in governance of health organisations.{{Cite web|last=Jayne|first=Vicki|date=1 April 2008|title=Lynette Stewart – it's the people|url=https://national-library.natlib.nz/records/21459784|access-date=10 October 2020|website=New Zealand management, Apr 2008; v.55 n.3:p.44-47; issn:1174-53390}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Our Board|url=https://www.mahitahihauora.co.nz/our-board|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=10 October 2020|website=mahitahihauora.co.nz}}
Biography
Stewart was born in Whangārei and grew up in Whananaki. Her siblings include politician Winston Peters, Northland Regional Councillor Jim Peters and Northland Rugby Union chairman Wayne Peters.{{Cite news|title=Queen's Birthday honours |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/queens-birthday-honours/LUPEYAM47ACNEOWVPMVWV7HECI/ |access-date=10 October 2020 |work=Northern Advocate |date=5 June 2006 |first=Kathryn |last=Powley}} She is Māori, of Ngātiwai, Patuharakeke, and Tainui iwi. She earned a master's degree from the University of Auckland with a thesis examining the significance of Māori health providers within the New Zealand health system.{{cite thesis |last=Stewart |first=Lynette |year=2021 |type=Masters thesis |title=The Significance of Maori Health Providers to the New Zealand Primary Health System |publisher=ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland |hdl=2292/57850}}
She was chair of the Northland District Health Board from 2001 to 2009.{{Cite web|title=Lynette Stewart CNZM|url=https://ihaveadream.org.nz/our-people/339/|access-date=10 October 2020|website=I Have A Dream Charitable Trust {{!}} New Zealand|language=en-US}} She then went on to serve as head of Kia Ora Ngati Wai Health Trust.{{Cite web|date=20 September 2018|title=Martin Lawes' sentence too light – Lynette Stewart|url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018663308/martin-lawes-sentence-too-light-lynette-stewart|access-date=10 October 2020|website=RNZ |language=en-nz}} Stewart has also served as a member of the National Health Committee, the Public Health Advisory Committee and the Health Workforce Advisory Committee. She was a member of the ACC Review Committee, the Treaty of Waitangi Public Information Advisory Programme Board, the Maori Rural Training Consortium and is a past president of the New Zealand Association of Social Workers.
Honours and awards
In 2003, Stewart received the Dame Mira Szazy Maori Business Leadership Award from the University of Auckland Business School. In the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to health administration.{{cite web |url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/queens-birthday-honours-list-2006 |title=Queen's Birthday honours list 2006 |date=5 June 2006 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |accessdate=25 October 2020}} In 2008 she received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Auckland.
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Category:University of Auckland alumni
Category:People from Whangārei
Category:Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)