Dame Sue Bagshaw, of Christchurch, DNZM, for services to youth health
Dame Sue Bagshaw has worked in the youth health sector for 30 years. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics at the University of Otago in Christchurch, and a contract educator and Trustee for the Collaborative for Research and Training in Youth Health and Development, which she founded.
Dame Sue chairs the Korowai Youth Well-Being Trust, running three teaching clinics at the Youth One Stop Shop 298 Youth Health. She established the 198 Youth One Stop Shop in 1995 and worked there as a primary care youth health specialist until its closure in 2010. She has been involved in advising the set-up of many youth health centres around the country, now known as the Network of Youth One Stop Shops. Following the Christchurch earthquakes, she collaborated with Action Works to bring together 16 youth organisations to form the first youth hub in Barbadoes Street in 2012. Most recently she has been developing a Christchurch Youth Hub, Te Hurihanga o Rangatahi, a collaboration of health and social services and transitional housing for youth. Anglican Care became involved in 2017 to help purchase a site in central Christchurch. Dame Sue has been President of the New Zealand Association for Adolescent Health and Development and President of the International Association of Adolescent Health, and was a founding member and key driver of the Society of Youth Health Professionals Aotearoa (SYHPANZ).