Bio: Suzanne M. Crengle, M.B.Ch.B., a 1999-2000 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy, is a practicing physician and a senior lecturer in Maori Health at the University of Auckland. She is also director of the Tomaiora Maori Health Research Group, whose research focuses Māori children, young people and their families. Crengle's research interests include the primary care management of childhood asthma, nutritional status infants aged six to 23 months and adolescent health. She served as a member of the executive of Te ORA (the National Maori Medical Practitioners Association) and the council of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. Crengle is a specialist qualified in General Practice (Family Medicine).
Placement: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Mentors: George Brenneman, M.D., Research Associate, International Health & Associate Director, The Center for American Indian and Alaskan Native Health, Johns Hopkins University; Barbara Starfield, M.D., M.P.H., Founding Director, Primary Care Policy Center, Johns Hopkins University
Project: Health Status, Sources of Care, Barriers to Care and Health Service Utilization for American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples
Description: Crengle investigated differences in health and health care among American Indian and Alaska Native People and other ethnic groups. She analyzed data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey on: demographic characteristics of the population; self-perceived physical and mental health status; usual source of care; barriers to accessing care; and health care utilization. She also analyzed data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project on hospital discharges, diagnoses, procedures, and lengths of stay.