Dr Nikki Renall
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Dr Nikki Renall (Taranaki) is a New Zealand Registered Dietitian and a Hohua Tutengaehe Māori Health postdoctoral fellow at the Research Centre of Hauora and Health, Massey University. She is currently exploring the changes in Māori food practices over the last 200 years with Associate Professor Lisa Te Morenga.
Nikki graduated with her PhD from Massey University, College of Health, Auckland campus in 2021. Her PhD research explored the association between the habitual diet of Pacific and New Zealand European women with different metabolic disease risk and body fat profiles, in relation to the composition of their gut microbiota and metabolic disease risk.
Her research interests are in the area of nutrition and hauora Māori (Māori health), and to undertake research which improves health equity for Māori and working with communities to improve their wellbeing as defined by Māori for Māori.
Her expertise is dietary assessment and analysis, and practical expertise is understanding how the social determinants of health impact food security, diet quality and wellbeing.
