Associate Professor Jason Gurney (Ngāpuhi) is an epidemiologist and Director of the Cancer and Chronic Conditions (C3) Research Group at the University of Otago. Jason is currently leading multiple national-level projects on equity in health outcomes for Māori, with a focus on cancer.  Jason is currently a Health Research Council (HRC) Māori Emerging Leader Fellow, and Principal Investigator of a five-year HRC Programme Grant and several HRC-funded projects, examining topics including post-operative mortality, the co-occurrence of cancer and diabetes, and cancer treatment and outcomes for Māori. He is also currently seconded two days per week to Te Aho o Te Kahu, the New Zealand Government’s Cancer Control Agency, as their Senior Epidemiologist.