Cervantée Wild

ervantée Wild is a Girdlers’ New Zealand Health Research Council Fellow at Green Templeton College.

I am an interdisciplinary health services researcher interested in improving health services and systems for children, young people and their families. I work alongside clinicians in the intersection between clinical and public health to prioritise participant voices in service improvement and systems change. I have broad training in health sciences, public health and political studies, with experience in both quantitative and qualitative health research. My research interests increasingly span the social and political determinants of health and health inequities.

I am based in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences in the Medical Sociology and Health Experiences Research Group. I currently work on an NIHR-funded study to understand family experiences of Long Covid in order to support self-care and timely access to services.

My doctoral research with the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, focused on improving outcomes for families involved in a novel child and adolescent obesity intervention programme while addressing health equity. The mixed-methods research investigated the challenges surrounding engagement in health services for childhood obesity and long-term persistence of healthy lifestyle change. Since then I have contributed to a range of studies on multidisciplinary obesity intervention, enabling fair and informed involvement in child health research, and healthcare workers’ experiences of PPE access during the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand as part of the PPE disinfection for potential reuse project with the University of Auckland.