Marewa Glover


Marewa Glover is a New Zealand public health academic specialising in smoking cessation. She is Māori, of Ngā Puhi descent, and has worked at the University of Auckland and been a full professor at Massey University. She set up the Centre for Research Excellence: Indigenous Sovereignty and Smoking in 2018.

Academic career

After a 2000 PhD titled The Effectiveness of a Maori Noho Marae smoking cessation intervention: utilising a kaupapa Maori methodology at the University of Auckland, she moved to the Massey University, rising to full professor.
Glover is long time smoking-reduction researcher, who switched from supporting tobacco taxes to opposing them for hurting the most vulnerable.
Glover's research has been widely covered in the press.
In 2017 she was a finalist in the New Zealand Women of Influence Awards.

Selected works