Nurse Dean Cowles

Dean Cowles is Southern Cross Healthcare's National Nursing Adviser Maori Affairs who's work looks at Te Tiriti o Waitangi in Healthcare, inequities in Maori health and cultural awareness and safety. His career also saw him work as a nurse at Christchurch Hospital where he was on the frontline in March 2019 when victims of the Mosque shootings poured into the hospital, a scene he describes as "organised chaos with blood everywhere."