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Join us in Te Whanganui a Tara to hear from key thinkers and leaders about the future for prevention advocacy and health equity at HCA’s annual forum 2024.
This is an essential event for anyone working to improve the health of New Zealanders, including front line staff, NGOs, policy analysts, researchers and academics.
Let’s examine and discuss:
In addition to engaging and inspiring discussions, this event is an opportunity to network with the HCA community and key leaders in public health.
Together we can navigate the complexities and opportunities, and get inspired to achieve our collective vision.
Dr Mataroria Lyndon
As a Māori clinician, academic, and governance leader, Dr. Lyndon’s influence spans health and academia. He is a co-founder of Tend Health, which is among the largest primary healthcare providers in Aotearoa. He also serves as a Senior Lecturer in Medical Education at the University of Auckland. He was previously the Equity Lead at Mahitahi Hauora Primary Health Organisation and a medical lead for Māori Health at Counties Manukau DHB. Mataroria completed his Master of Public Health at Harvard University as a Fulbright Scholar and his PhD is focused on medical education. He was also awarded the Deloitte IPANZ Young Professional of the Year. In his governance roles, he has served as the Deputy Chair of the Health Promotion Agency and as a board member of Te Aka Whai Ora Māori Health Authority and the Northland DHB. Currently, he is a board member of Pūtahi Manawa Centre of Research Excellence for Heart Health and the Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Foundation..
Professor Sharon Friel
Sharon Friel is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Professor of Health Equity in the School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University. She is Director of the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse and Australian Research Centre for Health Equity (ARCHE) at the Australian National University. Professor Friel’s work focuses on governance of the planetary, social and commercial determinants of health inequities.
Kevin Hague
Kevin Hague is the Chair of the Public Health Advisory Committee, which gives independent expert advice to the Minister of Health, and to the central health agencies. He has been involved in public health since the 1980s and has worked across the Government, community and private sectors. He is a previous chief executive of the NZ AIDS Foundation, Forest & Bird and the West Coast DHB, was a Member of Parliament for 8 years, and is currently also the Deputy-Chair of Te Hiringa Mahara, the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission.
Tania Henderson (Ngati Ruawaipu, Ngati Porou)
Tania is a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) expert, educator, advocate, Whānau Ora Navigator, and member of HCA’s Rōpū Apaarangi Waipiro – Alcohol Expert Advisory Group. She has spent over two decades working with at-risk whānau, supporting them on their parenting and hauora (health) journeys. For the past 13 years Tania has focussed on raising awareness of FASD, using a holistic, te ao Māori and community needs-driven model of practice, ‘Ko Au, Whānau, Whanaungatanga, Whakawhanaungatanga’. This has supported whānau members to identify how alcohol has impacted them, their whānau, their mokopuna and whakapapa. Tania was a member of the NZ FASD Diagnostic Guidelines Project Team that created the first New Zealand guidelines for FASD diagnosis and was launched in April this year. The guidelines provide practitioners with a tool that is Te Tiriti o Waitangi-centric, inclusive of cultural practices and needs, and community needs driven.
Kristen Maynard (Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu and Ruapani)
Kristen is principal consultant at Koru Ngakau, based in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa and a member of HCA’s Rōpū Apaarangi Waipiro – Alcohol Expert Advisory Group. Kristen has a long history of working in the alcohol harm reduction space, including with the Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand and Te Hiringa Hauora. Her two most recent reports in the alcohol space, both commissioned by Te Whatu Ora, considered how Te Tiriti o Waitangi could be given appropriate effect in alcohol law and the requirements for ensuring that district licensing committees established appropriate tikanga Maori procedures as per the recent law change.
Associate Minister of Health Casey Costello
Hon Casey Costello, based in Pokeno, is a former chair and board member of the Taxpayers’ Union, Detective Sergeant, Vice-President of the Police Association, and spokesperson for Hobson’s Pledge. Ms Costello first entered Parliament in 2023 and is the Minister of Customs, Minister for Seniors, Associate Minister of Health, Associate Minister of Immigration, and Associate Minister of Police.
Professor Chris Bullen
Chris Bullen is a Professor of Public Health at the University of Auckland/Waipapa Taumata Rau’s School of Population Health and a member of HCA’s Smokefree Expert Advisory Group. He is a public health physician who has worked in clinical and public health roles in low-income primary care settings overseas and in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Over the past 20 years, he has undertaken research on many aspects of tobacco control, with a focus on identifying new ways of assisting people who smoke to quit. His current research includes assessing the scale of the illicit tobacco trade, vaping product waste as an environmental hazard, and exploring novel digital tools to assist people with chronic respiratory diseases to maintain good health. Chris is the immediate past president and a fellow of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, the world’s leading nicotine and tobacco research organisation.
Max Rashbrooke
Max Rashbrooke is a Wellington-based writer and public intellectual, with twin interests in economic inequality and democratic renewal. His books include Too Much Money: How Wealth Disparities are Unbalancing Aotearoa New Zealand, Government for the Public Good: The Surprising Science of Large-Scale Collective Action and Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis, all published by Bridget Williams Books. A senior research fellow (adjunct) at Victoria University’s School of Government, he pens a fortnightly column for both The Post and The Spinoff, writes for international outlets including the Guardian, and is a frequent commentator in the New Zealand media. He has recently helped launch IDEA, the Institute for Democratic and Economic Analysis, a new public policy think-tank. His TED.com talk on upgrading democracy has been viewed 1.5m times.
Dr Diana Sarfati
Dr Diana Sarfati was appointed to the role of Director-General of Health and Chief Executive of the Ministry of Health in November 2022 having acted in the role since July 2022. Diana is a public health physician, cancer epidemiologist and health services researcher, and she has a PhD from the University of Otago. Diana was previously Chief Executive of Te Aho o Te Kahu – Cancer Control Agency and prior to that she was National Director of Cancer Control at the Ministry of Health where she oversaw the set-up of the Agency. From 2015 to 2019, Diana was the co-head and then head of the Department of Public Health and the Director of the Cancer and Chronic Conditions (C3) research group at University of Otago, Wellington. Diana is a former member of the National Cancer Programme Leadership Board, the National Screening Advisory Group, the National Ethics Advisory Committee, the Bowel Cancer Taskforce and the National Bowel Cancer Screening Advisory Committee.
Dr Andrew Old
Andrew is a public health physician and is currently Deputy Director-General and Head of the Public Health Agency, within the New Zealand Ministry of Health. Prior to his appointment in July 2022 he held joint positions as Associate Chief Medical Officer for Waitematā District Health Board (DHB), and as Clinical Director, Health Gain for Auckland and Waitematā DHBs. At the time he was appointed, he was seconded to the COVID-19 response for the Northern Region of New Zealand as Chief Clinical Officer. He has previously held executive leadership roles in strategy, community participation, patient experience, and quality improvement. Andrew was a 2018/19 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow and was based between the Clinical Excellence Research Center at Stanford University, and the Social Interventions Research Evaluation Network at UC San Francisco, where he researched organisational attributes of primary care practices that achieved good outcomes for traditionally underserved populations. Andrew received his medical and public health degrees from the University of Auckland and is a Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine. He was awarded Fellowship of the New Zealand Medical Association in 2011 for services to the profession and the public.
Dr Owen Sinclair
Dr Owen Sinclair (Te Rarawa) is a general paediatrician at Waitakere Hospital in Tāmaki Makaurau and president of the Paediatric Society (PSNZ) | Te Kāhui Mātai Arotamariki o Aotearoa. He is the first Māori president of the society. Dr Sinclair is also co-chair of the National Immunisation Taskforce. He holds a Masters in Public Health for which his thesis asked ‘Ethnic inequities in health: Have we made progress? Pertussis mortality and morbidity in New Zealand for Māori and non-Māori over the past century’. He is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. As well as a leading advocate in healthcare for equity for tamariki Māori, he is a husband and father to two children and enjoys fishing, gardening and cooking.
Associate Professor Lara Greaves
Lara Greaves (Ngāpuhi, Pākehā, Tararā) is an associate professor in politics at Victoria University of Wellington and a senior research fellow in statistics at the University of Auckland. As a Royal Society of New Zealand Rutherford Discovery Fellow (2024-2029), Lara is investigating improvements to democracy and participation in New Zealand, particularly focusing on Māori and intersectionality. With colleague Dr Rituparna Roy, she co-leads a project seeking to make citizens’ assemblies more inclusive, with a focus on intersectionality. She is currently finishing up a project (a Marsden fast start), which asked 2,000 Māori why they choose to vote on the Māori roll or General roll. Lara regularly appears in national and international media. She has served on various advisory groups and panels, including the HCA steering group for its Integrity Protection in Public Policy-making, Te Pokapū of Te Mana Raraunga and as a governance intern on the Healthier Lives National Science Challenge board. She also recently concluded work as a panellist for the Independent Electoral Review, a once in a generation review of New Zealand’s electoral law.
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