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Indigenous Maori Public Health Practitioners who work in mainstream public health systems experience significant barriers to workplace success and the barriers to positive public health impact in our communities. This is a Kaupapa Maori qualitative study that highlights the barriers and enablers to Maori Senior Public Health practitioners within Mainstream New Zealand Public Health Units. Given there are nearly 400 million Indigenous people worldwide, this is an opportunity to share recommendations from this research study with the global public health community about how to re-orient public health organisations and approaches to effectively address workforce development as well as improve engagement and impact in Indigenous communities. Indigenous knowledge is undervalued in Mainstream Public Health Systems. Indigenous inequities cannot be truly addressed unless providers re-orient themselves by authentically understanding Indigenous ways of working.