Tasileta "Leta" Teevale MNZM (22 March 1973 – 21 April 2023) was a Samoan New Zealand academic, and was the inaugural director of the Pacific Development Office at the University of Otago.

In 2021, she was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Pacific education and public health research.

When Teevale was eight years old, her father earned a scholarship to study at the University of Otago and the family moved to Dunedin in New Zealand.

[3] She carried out a national survey of youth health and wellbeing, and a study of school-based interventions to manage weight.

[1][3] In the 2021 New Years Honours Teevale was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Pacific education and public health research.