Dr Margaret Southwick

Dr Margaret Southwick, of Porirua, received the Queen's Service Medal on 25 March 2009 for services to the Pacific Islands community.  Dr Southwick has been involved with the health of the Pacific Islands community in Wellington for many years.  She was instrumental in the establishment of the Pacific Health Research Centre and School of Pacific Health Education at the Whitireia Community Polytechnic.  She is the lead researcher for Searching for Pacific Solutions: a Community-Based Joint Intervention Project of the Ministry of Health, the Health Research Council, the Alcohol Advisory Council and ACC.  She is a member of the Pacific Research Advisory Committee and the Health Workforce Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Health.  Dr Southwick is a councillor of the New Zealand Nursing Council, where she helped to develop the Making Waves Pacific Community Sexual Health Trainers Programme.