Joyce Cowan

Joyce Cowan ONZM
Awards	Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Academic background
Alma mater	Auckland University of Technology, Manurewa High School, Auckland University of Technology
Theses	Women's experience of severe early onset preeclampsia : a hermeneutic analysis (2005) Introduction of the Growth Assessment Protocol at Counties Manukau Health, New Zealand: Effect on Detection of Small for Gestational Age Pregnancy, and Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes (2020)
Doctoral advisor	Judith McAra-Couper, Nick Garrett, Lesley McCowan
Other advisors	Liz Smythe, Marion Hunter
Academic work
Institutions	Perinatal Institute, Auckland University of Technology

Florence Joyce Cowan ONZM is a New Zealand midwife and educator, and an authority on pre-eclampsia. She was co-founder and director of the charity NZ Action on Pre-eclampsia, and introduced the GAP programme to monitor the growth of small babies. In 2023 Cowan was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to midwifery, after a more than fifty year career contributing to the profession.