Denise Wilson

Denise Lucy Wilson is a New Zealand health academic. She is Māori, of Ngāti Tahinga descent, and is currently a full professor of Māori health at the Auckland University of Technology. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
Academic career.
After a background in nursing she did an MSc titled" 'Through the looking glass: nurses' responses to women experiencing partner abuse'" and PhD titled "'Ngā kairaranga oranga / The weavers of health and wellbeing: a grounded theory study"' at the Massey University. She then moved to the Auckland University of Technology, rising to full professor.
She has received media coverage for her work on domestic violence.
She is a keynote speaker at the biennial All Together Better Health (ATBH) Conferences organized by World Committee.
Awards.
In 2019 Wilson was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. In March 2021, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, recognising her research is "greatly contributing to efforts to reduce health disparities of Māori and other Indigenous people globally".