{{Short description|New Zealand youth forensic psychiatrist (born 1966)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Hinemoa Elder | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM|size=100%}} | image = Hinemoa Elder MNZM (cropped).jpg | alt = | caption = Elder in 2019 | birth_name = | birth_date = 1966 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | fields = | workplaces = | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = Massey University | thesis_title = Tuku iho, he tapu te upoko. From our ancestors, the head is sacred. Indigenous theory building and therapeutic framework development for Māori children and adolescents with traumatic brain injury | thesis_url = http://hdl.handle.net/10179/4065 | thesis_year = 2012 | doctoral_advisors = Chris Cunningham<br>Mason Durie<br>Richard Faull | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | spouse = {{marriage |Paul Holmes | |1998|end=}} | partner = | children = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Hinemoa Elder''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM}} (born 1966)<ref name="DNZB">{{cite web |last1=Shoebridge |first1=Tim |title=Holmes, Paul Scott |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/6h15/holmes-paul-scott |website=Dictionary of New Zealand Biography |access-date=8 May 2024}}</ref><ref name="Pellegrino">{{cite news |last1=Pellegrino |first1=Nicky |title=Hinemoa Elder on wellbeing, writing and Millie |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/hinemoa-elder-on-wellbeing-writing-and-millie-shes-doing-really-really-well/VF5K4HI4RLXQVAERE3JWN3QW5M/ |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=11 June 2022 |language=en-NZ}}</ref> is a New Zealand youth forensic psychiatrist and former television presenter. She is a professor in indigenous research at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gg.govt.nz/file/27785|title = Dr Hinemoa Elder, of Auckland, MNZM for services to psychiatry and Māori | the Governor-General of New Zealand}}</ref> a fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, and sits on the Māori Advisory Committee of the Centre for Brain Research.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hinemoa Elder |url=https://www.huia.co.nz/huia-bookshop/authors/author/204 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220617081252/https://huia.co.nz/huia-bookshop/authors/author/204 |archive-date=2022-06-17 |access-date=2018-06-05 |website=Huia |language=en}}</ref>
Before training in medicine she was a presenter on ''3.45 LIVE!'' and ''The Bugs Bunny Show'', children's television programmes on TVNZ.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/345-live-interview-compilation-1990|title=3:45 LIVE! - Interview Compilation {{!}} Television {{!}} NZ On Screen|website=www.nzonscreen.com|language=en|others=NZ On Screen |access-date=2018-06-05}}</ref>
== Career == Elder started her career in the media as an actress and television personality. After her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, Elder enrolled at the University of Auckland to study medicine. She graduated in 1999 and went on to specialise in child and adolescent psychiatry. From 2007 to 2011 she worked as a youth forensic psychiatrist in the Waikato, Auckland and Northland regions and completed post-graduate studies in forensic psychology. Her doctoral thesis, completed at Massey University in 2012, focused on the development of tikanga approaches for Māori children who experienced traumatic brain injury.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=http://www.superdiversewomen.com/our-members/professor-hinemoa-elder|title=Professor Hinemoa Elder {{!}} Our Members {{!}} Super Diverse Women|work=Super Diverse Women|access-date=2018-06-05|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis |last=Elder |first=Hinemoa |year=2012 |type=Doctoral thesis |title=Tuku iho, he tapu te upoko = From our ancestors, the head is sacred : Indigenous theory building and therapeutic framework development for Māori children and adolescents with traumatic brain injury |publisher=Massey Research Online, Massey University |hdl=10179/4065}}</ref> In 2015 she was a participant in a neurological research think tank at the University of Deusto, Spain, which aimed to strengthen international collaborative research partnerships in the field.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Dr Hinemoa Elder |url=https://100maorileaders.com/leaders/dr-hinemoa-elder |access-date=2024-06-28 |website=100 Maori Leaders |language=en}}</ref>
Elder has served on a number of reference groups for the Ministry of Health including the expert advisory group of Blueprint II, which established the framework for New Zealand mental health service funding. She is a deputy member of the New Zealand Mental Health Review Tribunal and a specialist assessor under the Intellectual Disability Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation Act 2003. Elder is also a research associate of the Person Centred Research Centre, the National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neurosciences and is a trustee and director of Emerge Aotearoa, a non-governmental organisation.<ref name=":1" />
=== Recognition === In 2014, Elder received a Health Research Council of New Zealand Eru Pomare Post Doctoral Fellowship which allowed her to extend the work of her doctorate.<ref name=":0" /> In 2017 Elder received the Innovation and Science Award at the New Zealand Women of Influence Awards.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/96518092/my-food-bag-founder-cecilia-robinson-supreme-winner-at-women-of-influence-awards|title=My Food Bag founder Cecilia Robinson supreme winner at Women of Influence awards|website=Stuff |date=8 September 2017|language=en|access-date=2018-06-05}}</ref>
In the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours, Elder was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to psychiatry and Māori.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/queens-birthday-honours-list-2019 |title=Queen's Birthday honours list 2019 |date=3 June 2019 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |accessdate=3 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12236701|title=Queen's Birthday Honours: Royal honour for child psychiatrist Hinemoa Elder|last=Lawrence|first=Meghan|date=3 June 2019|work=New Zealand Herald |access-date=3 June 2019|issn=1170-0777}}</ref>
Her 2024 book, ''Dear Moko'', was shortlisted for the Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction at the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-06-05 |title=2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults shortlists |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2025/06/05/273553/2025-new-zealand-book-awards-for-children-and-young-adults-shortlists/ |access-date=2025-06-06 |publisher=Books+Publishing}}</ref>
=== Publications ===
* ''Maea te Toi Ora: Māori Health Transformations'', 2018 (co-contributor)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.huia.co.nz/huia-bookshop/bookshop/maea-te-toi-ora-maori-health-transformations/|title=Huia {{!}} Maea te Toi Ora: Māori Health Transformations|website=www.huia.co.nz|language=en|access-date=2018-06-05}}</ref>
*{{cite book |title=Aroha, Maori Wisdom for a Contented Life Lived in Harmony With Our Planet |author=Elder |first=Hinemoa |year=2020 |publisher=Ebury Press |publication-place=London, England |publication-date=January 1, 2021 |isbn=978-1529107067}} *{{Cite book |last=Elder |first=Hinemoa |title=Dear Moko: Māori wisdom for our young ones |publisher=Penguin |year=2024 |isbn=9781776953417}}
== Personal life == Elder grew up in England with her Māori mother and New Zealand European father, returning to New Zealand when she was eleven.<ref>{{Cite web |date=22 July 2014 |title=Working to keep te reo alive |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/10294561/Working-to-keep-te-reo-alive |access-date=2018-09-16 |website=Stuff |language=en}}</ref> She is of English descent, and from Ngāti Kurī, Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri and Ngāpuhi iwi.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
Elder is the former partner, later wife, of the late broadcaster Paul Holmes and had a son, Reuben, with him. Holmes was step-father to Elder's daughter from a previous relationship, Millie Elder-Holmes.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11216447|title=The growing pains of Millie Elder-Holmes|last=Hooper|first=Pebbles|date=2014-03-08|work=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=2018-06-05|language=en-NZ|issn=1170-0777}}</ref>
Hinemoa Elder lives on Waiheke Island. <ref>{{Cite web|title=Dr Hinemoa Elder on embracing tikanga Māori and changing the mental health sector|url=https://womanmagazine.co.nz/dr-hinemoa-elder-on-embracing-tikanga-maori-and-changing-the-mental-health-sector/|website=WOMAN|date=1970-01-01|access-date=2025-11-30|language=en-NZ|last=websavers_login}}</ref>
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