Joanne Mary Baxter is a New Zealand Māori public health medicine physician and academic and affiliates with the iwi of Ngāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha and Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō.
Baxter took up the position of dean of the Dunedin School of Medicine on 1 July 2022, and is the first Māori woman in the role.
[2] Baxter was educated at Queen Charlotte College in Picton, where she was head girl in her final year.
Baxter is a member of the New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine (NZCPHM).
[1] In 2016, Baxter was a key team member of the Dunedin Study led by Richie Poulton, that won that year's Prime Minister's Science Prize.