Professor Ngaire Kerse, MNZM, for services to seniors and health
Professor Ngaire Kerse is a Professor of General Practice and Primary Health Care and the inaugural Joyce Cook Chair in Ageing Well at the University of Auckland. She is an international expert in several subjects relating to older people. She is a member of expert and advisory steering groups for the Health Quality and Safety Commission and the Ministry of Health. She is a General Practitioner at the Auckland City Mission. She is the co-principal investigator of a longitudinal study on living in advanced age in New Zealand and led the Brief Risk Identification Geriatric Health Tool (BRIGHT) study. Professor Kerse is President of the New Zealand Association of Gerontology.