Helen Moewaka Barnes

Helen Moewaka Barnes is a New Zealand academic. She is Māori, of Te Kapotai (Ngāpuhi) and Ngapuhi-nui-tonu descent and is currently a full professor at the Massey University. In 2021 Barnes was made a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
Academic career.
After a 2008 PhD thesis titled "Arguing for the spirit in the language of the mind: a Māori practitioner's view of research and science", Barnes joined the staff, rising to full professor in 2013.
In 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, she received four separate grants from the Health Research Council, alongside a Fulbright award in 2015 and a 2013 Marsden Fund award.
Barnes is part of the New Zealand Arrestee Drug Use Monitoring project, which surveys arrestees in the criminal justice system to compile statistics on drug use.
Barnes' work looks at health from a kaupapa Māori perspective.
Awards.
In March 2021, Barnes was made a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, recognising her "significant international impact in the field of Indigenous peoples' health and wellbeing".