George Parker (they/them) is Pūkenga Ratoa Hauora | Senior Lecturer in Health Service Delivery in the School of Health. Prior to joining Te Herenga Waka, George taught in the School of Midwifery at Otago Polytechnic and in the School of Medicine at the University of Auckland. George is a kahu pōkai | midwife and has extensive experience working in the community sector in health consumer advocacy and people-centered health policy analysis and advice. 

George is a social researcher of health and health service delivery, and their work is centered around improving access to healthcare and reducing health inequities for communities on the margins. They employ predominantly qualitative and participatory approaches to develop and advance understandings of people's health subjectivites, embodiment, and experience of accesing healthcare. George's projects to date have focused on fat phobia, racial discrimination, and cis-heteronormativity in the places of care related to fertility, reproduction, and family building. They have a methodological interest in innovative qualitative approaches to develop in-depth insights into lived experience, as well as participatory and collaborative approaches to research for system transformation. Their work is te Tiriti o Waitangi informed and guided by theory-praxis of intersectionality, cultural safety/humility and reproductive justice. George has methodological expertise in Participatory Action Research approaches, especially cooperative inquiry.