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Ngākaurua
My experience of cancer, identity and racism in Aotearoa
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Jacquie Kidd, Ngāpuhi, has spent a lifetime standing with whānau Māori, who battle a health system designed for others and are twice as likely to die from cancer as Pākehā. Now sixty-two and facing her own terminal cancer diagnosis, Jacquie has written her story to better...
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Professor of Māori Health with terminal cancer shares personal story and decades of research, in an honest and confronting account of whanau Māori in the Aotearoa health system.
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Jacquie Kidd, Ngāpuhi, has spent a lifetime standing with whānau Māori, who battle a health system designed for others and are twice as likely to die from cancer as Pākehā. Now sixty-two and facing her own terminal cancer diagnosis, Jacquie has written her story to better understand herself and her whakapapa, and to share what she’s discovered working with people who are dying after they’ve been diagnosed too late – most importantly, that a health and social system designed around whānau Māori allows everyone to flourish.
After struggling with her early education and dropping out of nursing school, Jacquie drew on the rage she felt at inequities in Aotearoa to make a second attempt at a nursing career and further study, eventually becoming a professor of Māori health in her fifties. In the end stage of her illness, Jacquie’s focus is on leaving a world where her students and mokopuna can thrive. A hope for something better for Aotearoa shines through the story she delivers with the honesty, humour, courage and drive for social justice that are the pou of her phenomenal life.
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ISBN: 9781067096601
Publisher: The Cuba Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 April 2026
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: The Cuba Press
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Spine width: 12.0mm
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 196
About the Author
Jacquie Kidd, Ngāpuhi, is a nurse by training and a researcher at heart. She has spent decades examining inequities and racism in the health system and uses story and poetry to bring whānau voices to the forefront of cancer care and research. A professor of Māori health at the Auckland University of Technology, Jacquie has a clinical background in nursing and almost two decades of expertise in whānau-focused Māori health equity research. Her research has concentrated on kaupapa Māori projects that have gathered whānau stories to help develop solutions to health inequities.
Significant projects that Jacquie has worked on include health literacy for Māori in palliative care; Oranga Tū, on prostate cancer for tāne Māori; and Hā Ora, on improving early diagnosis of lung cancer for Māori. Her current work includes lung cancer screening for Māori, whānau hauora assessment in the cancer pathway and anti-racism practice in healthcare. She is a trustee and co-chair of Hei Āhuru Mōwai, the Māori Cancer Leadership group, and a keynote speaker at the World Indigenous Cancer Conference in Aotearoa in 2026. Jacquie lives in Ahuriri Napier with her husband and two dogs, just a short drive from her five mokopuna.
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