Dr Prabani Wood

Research Fellow

Prabani was born in Sri Lanka and moved to the UK when she was five years old. She obtained her medical degree and BA in Physiological Sciences from the University of Oxford. She emigrated to New Zealand with her husband in 2005.

She gained a broad range of post-graduate experience in medicine, surgery, anaesthetics and public health prior to entering general practice, and she has been a GP for over fourteen years. Her Master in Public Health from the Universty of Auckland provided her with an excellent grounding of both public health in general and specific knowledge of the health system in New Zealand. In 2015 she set up a new GP practice, which within eight years was providing care to approximately 8,500 patients with a multi-disciplinary staff all within a custom-designed premises. This experience has equipped her with a wealth of first-hand experience and knowledge of health policy, strategic planning and management within healthcare. She has chosen to step away from full-time general practice work in order to progress her career into medical advisory roles with the aim of effecting improvements in the planning, delivery and maintenance of quality healthcare for all New Zealanders.

Email: info@nzinitiative.org.nz