Alehandrea Raiha Manuel is a Ngāti Porou-Ilocana audiology and public health lecturer and research fellow at Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland. She has experience in Indigenous ear and hearing health research across Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, and Turtle Island. Alehandrea is a Fulbright Science and Innovation Graduate and was recently awarded a Health Research Council (HRC) Eru Pōmare Postdoctoral Fellowship for her research on hearing and vision health with Rangatahi Māori and Growing Up in New Zealand. Alehandrea’s work is embedded within Indigenous methodologies and has expanded to include implementation and pragmatic science, co-creation, kaupapa Māori epidemiology, integrated care and transdisciplinary health research.