Suzanne Marie Crengle is a New Zealand Māori academic, of Kāti Māmoe, Kāi Tahu and Waitaha descent and as of 2020 is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in public health medicine.

[1] She attended Mana College, where her parents had to complain to the local MP to have the streaming system changed so that it was possible for her to both be in the top class and take te reo Māōri.

[2] She then completed a master's degree titled Mā Papatuanuku, ka Tipu ngā Rākau: a case study of the well child health programme provided by Te Whānau O Waipareira Trust in 1997, supervised by Fiona Cram.

[2] Her research focuses on issues of inequity in the health system, where she says some metrics are getting worse, such as the percentage of Māori women participating in cervical screening.

[2] She said "It’s exciting that there’s such an explicit focus on equity and improving Māori health outcomes across the whole reform.