Dr Cheri Hotu is an Endocrinologist, General Physician and a Clinician Researcher. She works between Alice Springs and Auckland and holds a postdoctoral clinical research fellowship in Aboriginal Health at the Baker Institute in Central Australia. Her postgraduate doctoral research involved the evaluation of models of healthcare delivery that effectively delay the progression of diabetic nephropathy and cardiovascular disease in Indigenous populations with diabetes.

Her research interests include the epidemiology of diabetes and the burden of other chronic and acute diseases in the Aboriginal population in Central Australia. She is also involved in a 5-year longitudinal study lead by Professor Sandra Eades looking at the health and wellbeing journeys of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth and adolescents.

She is Clinical Lead of the Baker Institute's Diabetes Outreach Service where she provides specialist diabetes care to remote Aboriginal communities in Central Australia, she also works as a Visiting Medical Specialist at Alice Springs Hospital.