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Former Prime Minister of the Cook Islands, Sir Tom Davis, died in July at the age of 90. Sir Tom was the first Cook Islander to graduate as a doctor from Otago Medical School, in 1945. He worked as Medical Officer in the Cook Islands for a number of years and helped transform its health system. He then went to Harvard University in the United States to complete a Masters degree in public health (again the first Pacific person to do so) and worked as a research physiologist before joining NASA to work on the US space programme for several years. Sir Tom founded the Democratic Party in the Cook Islands in 1971 and served as Prime Minister from 1978 to 1987. He was later the Cook Islands High Commissioner to New Zealand. Feedback on this story (0)
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