Professor Emerita Jennie Connor, ONZM, of Auckland, for services to alcohol harm reduction
Professor Emerita Jennie Connor has been an advocate for evidence-based alcohol policy, in order to improve health and wellbeing and reduce inequities among and between communities. She has devoted research to health effects of alcohol in the population. Her work was used by the New Zealand Law Commission in the review of liquor law in 2009. She helped establish Alcohol Action New Zealand, dedicated to advocacy of evidence-based alcohol policy, and runs conferences, engages with media, communicates with politicians and corrects misinformation. She became a founding Board member of the Health Coalition Aotearoa and is a member of its Alcohol Expert Panel. She was the Chair of Preventive and Social Medicine with the University of Otago. Professor Connor has provided mentoring, support and supervision for young women in public health.