Health analyst & writer · Bilingual EN/ES · Wellington & remote
Health analysis and writing, with a decade inside the clinic.
I am a bilingual health analyst and writer, in English and Spanish. I spent ten years working in dental practices in Wellington before going back to study. In 2025 I finished my Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health at the University of Otago, with distinction. My training covers policy, biostatistics, health promotion, and regulatory writing, and during the diploma I wrote analyses on the health systems of the US, Singapore, and Aotearoa. I would like to work with organisations that need their health information to be both accurate and easy to read.
Open to permanent and fixed-term roles Available for contract and freelance work Remote globally
What I can work on
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Clinical Oral Health with Policy and Systems Insight I can analyse how the health system and its policies work in practice: workforce shortages, the cost of care, regulation, and how services are delivered day to day. My ten years working in Wellington dental practices means the analysis is grounded in real clinical experience, not just academic training. Useful for healthcare providers, regulators, NGOs, public health teams, and policy groups across the wider health sector.
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Health equity, Indigenous health, and Te Tiriti o Waitangi I support organisations working with people and communities that are often underserved by the health system. In Aotearoa New Zealand, I use Te Tiriti principles and Māori health frameworks such as Te Whare Tapa Whā and Te Pae Mahutonga. In international settings, I adapt my approach to local Indigenous health perspectives and to widely used concepts such as health equity and the social factors that influence health outcomes.
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Regulatory writing and clinical compliance I can write health impact assessments, regulatory impact assessments, and parliamentary submissions. I can also write the kind of documentation that small healthcare practices need: risk registers, infection prevention and control documents, audit preparation, and incident reporting.
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Quantitative methods I can help agencies understand their data with statistical techniques such as regression models with diagnostics, and turn the findings into language non-technical readers can act on.
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Global and comparative health systems I can produce comparative analysis of high-income health systems, with particular attention to the US, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. Useful for organisations planning international expansion, entering a new market, or thinking about system-level reform.
Selected work
Comparative Health Systems Analysis
Healthcare in the United States and Singapore
A comparison of two very different high-income health systems. The US spends about three times more per person than Singapore, but performs worse on the major health indicators. The piece asks why, and what the comparison says about how health systems should be designed.
Read project →Health Promotion Analysis
Education as a Determinant of Health for Māori
A four-part analysis of how colonisation and education reform produced lasting health inequities for Māori, and how Ka Hikitia and Kura Kaupapa Māori work as upstream health promotion responses, looked at through Te Pae Mahutonga.
Read project →Health Impact Assessment
Community Water Fluoridation: Wellington & Taranaki
A Health Impact Assessment prepared in support of an iwi-led submission on the proposed Fluoridation Referendum Bill, with a full environmental health risk assessment appendix.
Read project →Parliamentary Submission
Restoring Smokefree Legislation in Aotearoa
A mock submission to the Health Committee, arguing for the restoration of the three evidence-based tobacco control measures repealed in 2024.
Read project →About
A clinical practitioner who became an analyst.
I trained as a dentist in Colombia and moved to New Zealand in 2015. After ten years working in Wellington dental practices, I went back to study to add the analytical and policy training that clinical work does not give you on its own. I bring both.
Get in touch
Open to conversations.
I am open to permanent and fixed-term roles in Aotearoa's public health system, in universities, in policy consultancies, and in private health businesses. I am also available for contract and freelance work, including remote work where bilingual English and Spanish are useful.