Dr. Mau is the Myron “Pinky” Thompson Endowed Chair for Native Hawaiian Health Research and a Professor at the University of Hawaiʻi, John A. Burns School of Medicine. She is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, and is the founding chair and current Director of Research of the Department of Native Hawaiian Health.
Dr. Mau is actively engaged in health disparities research with a focus on the priority populations of the Pacific and. She is also the Director of the Center for Native and Pacific Health Disparities Research (CNPHDR) at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Dr. Mau earned her medical degree at Creighton University School of Medicine and her Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Dr. Mau credits the Clinical Effectiveness Program with providing her with a strong foundation in clinical research methods as well as excellent teachers and mentors that enabled her to succeed in academia, clinical research, and her professional career.
As Dr. Mau explains, “HSPH taught me about the importance of public health in my work with rural Native Hawaiian communities back home…. The course work was rigorous and intense but the Clinical Effectiveness Program was the perfect set-up for someone like me to gain the skill set the Program provided … over the summer, so that I could compete for NIH funding and solve the health challenges faced by many minority communities in Hawaiʻi…. I cannot thank HSPH enough and my advisor, Fran Cook, who supported me and gave me the opportunity to build a “village” of physician-scientists in Hawaiʻi.”
“The other key component that makes the HSPH Clinical Effectiveness Program so special is the diverse classmates that you interact with. During the summer, I had many colleagues from across Canada, Sweden, Brazil and all over the U.S.A. This network of international and national colleagues that I met was truly wonderful in helping to shape how I came to understand the world of public health – as diverse, global, challenging and extremely rewarding! HSPH is one of the best career opportunities I ever had and looking back … probably one of the essentials to many life successes, thus far.”
