Māori are the Tangata Whenua, the Indigenous People, of New Zealand. They arrived more than 1,000 years ago, traveling from their Polynesian homeland of Hawaiki. In 2020, New Zealand’s Māori ethnic population was estimated to number 850,500 (approximately 16.7% of the national population). Like many Indigenous peoples around the world, Māori face some of the worst health inequalities of any ethnic group.1 The overall life expectancy at birth is 73.4 years for Māori men and 77.1 years for Māori women, compared with 80.3 and 83.5 years for non-Māori men and women, respectively.