Riz Tupai-Firestone

Riz Tupai-Firestone
Riz Tupai-Firestone
Academic background
Alma mater	Massey University, University of Canterbury
Thesis	Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome among taxi drivers: consequences and barriers to accessing health services (2006);
Doctoral advisor	Philippa Gander
Academic work
Institutions	Massey University

Ridvan Tupai-Firestone (known as Riz) is a Samoan–New Zealand academic, and from January 2025 is a full professor in the Centre for Public Health Research at Massey University. Tupai-Firestone works on social and cultural health inequalities.