Crichton-Hill, YvonneWurtzburg, Susan J.2019-09-252019-09-252009-01-12200317057841http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/171951support the premise that considerations of ethnicity, along with other dimensions of identity, are important for health research. As we have discussed, the investigation of minority wellbeing is one way of advocating for culturally-responsive funding policies and community-appropriate interventions. A concern, presented here is that emphasis on matching the ethnicities of the researchers with those of the community may at times inhibit the occurrence of important health investigations. In these cases, the communities may be negatively impacted when health needs remain unmet because they lack professional documentation. In New Zealand, and other areas of the world, there has been much debate regarding the provision of research and health care to minority populations (i.e. “by Mãori for Mãori”). We argue that this is an overly simplified response that doesn’t take into account the various aspects of identity which may be important to people (as discussed above) and also the fact that many people claim several ethnic identities. The strategy of same-ethnic health research and provision of care typically presupposes that ethnic groups are homogenous and this assumption does not fit with the reality of today’s world.engWith permission of the license/copyright holdercommunityhealth ethicsBioethicsCommunity ethicsHealth ethicsArticle