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*POSTPONED* Toi Ako Webinar: Sleep with Sarah-Jane Paine
2018-07-25 10:00 - 11:00 (Pacific/Auckland) | Online
“Good sleep is vital to our waking function and to our health.”* It is something we all know; the amount and quality of sleep we get affects our health and wellbeing. There is now a growing recognition that inadequate sleep is a major public health issue. With more than 15 years experience in undertaking research looking at sleep health inequities in Aotearoa, Sarah-Jane Paine will cover health inequities in sleep within Aotearoa in our upcoming webinar.
Toi Tangata kairahi, Darrio Penetito-Hemara, will also join her to talk about the recently released Sit Less, Move More, Sleep Well: Active play guidelines for under-fives resources and share his insights around the importance of activity and sleep for tamariki.
*Philippa Gander
About the presenter
Sarah-Jane Paine (Tūhoe) is a Senior Lecturer at Te Kupenga Hauora Māori and Co-Director of the Tōmaiora Research Group, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland. She holds science degrees from the University of Otago and a PhD in Public Health from Massey University. She was a recipient of the HRC Eru Pōmare Fellowship in Māori Health (2008 – 2011) and the Massey University Early Career Research Medal (2012). Her research involves the quantitative investigation of ethnic inequities in health and the determinants of health across the life-course. She was the Māori Principle Investigator on a HRC-funded longitudinal study investigating the maternal sleep problems across the perinatal period and the implications for maternal and child health. She also has been involved in several studies that have used routinely-collected national health data and survey collections to investigate issues in Māori health. In her current role she works with members of the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences to consider responsiveness to Māori in their research.

World Breastfeeding Week 2018
2018-08-01 - 2018-08-07
A sustainable and more equal world begins with efforts to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Malnutrition, food insecurity and poverty affect millions and stand in the way of sustainable development.
Breastfeeding is a universal solution that gives everyone a fair start in life and lays the foundation for good health and survival of children and women.

Maramataka in the Workplace Wānanga
2018-08-24 | Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae, 139 Carrington Road, Auckland, New Zealand
An empowering and informative wānanga to help you learn how to use the Māori systems framework of maramataka in the workplace.
Maramataka first began as a Māori system of awareness of the natural environment and its potential abundance. It comprises thousands of years of observations and knowledge and is the science of the moon energies.
Traditionally, Māori used it to improve their fishing, hunting and gardening practices but maramataka can be applied to all aspects of life and is viewed as a taonga from our ancestors.
This maramataka planning wānanga is for kaimahi working in hauora & community development. It is designed to be empowering and informative and is an opportunity for you to learn from experts with over 30 years’ experience.
The time of Hotoke (winter) is the best time to whai whakaaro (create a vision), whakatikahia (review) and whakatakoto kaupapa (strategy). During this wānanga you will learn how to use the Māori systems framework of maramataka Māori to greater enhance your productivity and work/life balance.
You will also be guided on how best to plan out your next 12 months of business operations using maramataka Māori and consider the right actions to undertake at the right times, referring to Ngā Peka o te Tau (the seasons) and Ngā Wahanga o te Marama (energy phases of the moon). This will contribute to effective stakeholder engagement, community consultation, team leadership, event management and the delivery of services to meet tangible deadlines.
You will learn how to use the maramataka and Nga Peka o te Tau as reference points for effective planning, delivery and measurement of your organisations goals.
You will examine Ngā Tohu o te Tangata and consider if your organisation is delivering its services at the right time, ie do you close for summer break when your clients need you the most?
Maramataka practitioners, Reuben and Heeni, will cover mātauranga Māori divisions of time, space and energy and challenge you to consider if you are in sync with the environment and support you to realign with the natural phases towards productivity (kia puta ngā hua).
**BONUS**
You will also receive a maramataka Māori wall planner, a great tool to help you observe, plan and action your mahi.
About the facilitators
Rueben Taipari and Heeni Hoterene are practitioners of maramataka Māori and take a practical approach to ‘living by the maramataka.’ Rueben uses the maramataka that his whanau has always used, handed down through the generations, for planting and fishing on their ancestral lands in Ahipara. Over 20 years ago he designed a unique colour coded system as a guide for planning by the maramataka. Heeni and Rueben have now been delivering maramataka workshops for over 15 years, working with whanau, community, educators, and the health and environment sectors. They are committed to mana Māori motuhake and view maramataka as a kaupapa that helps whanau to realign themselves with the natural cycles of Aotearoa, reclaiming their time, space and energy through actioning mātauranga Māori.

Breathe Better September NZ 2018
2018-09-01 - 2018-09-30
What is Breathe Better September?
Breathe Better September is a national campaign to raise awareness of respiratory conditions in New Zealand. The campaign encourages all Kiwis to show their support for better breathing and healthy lungs and to start thinking about how they can improve their respiratory health.
What is a respiratory condition?
​Respiratory disease includes asthma, bronchiectasis, bronchiolitis, pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung cancer and obstructive sleep apnoea.
How many people does it affect?
Over 700,000 Kiwis have a respiratory condition, it’s the third leading cause of death and costs the country $6 billion each year. In New Zealand over 521,000 people take medication for asthma, making it the most common respiratory condition in the country.
Breathe Better September will take place from 1-30 September 2018 and is run by
​the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation NZ.

Māori Language Week 2018
2018-09-10 - 2018-09-16
“Strength for an endangered language comes from its status, people being aware of how to support revitalisation, people acquiring and using it and from the language having the right words and terms to be used well for any purpose.”

Toi Ako Webinar: Disrupting mainstream discourses with a wairua centered approach
2018-09-19 10:00 - 10:45 | Online
South Auckland has the largest Māori population in the world. Imagine if Māori:

Mobilised a collective voice for change
Lead discussions at decision making tables, at all levels across the system
Pioneered indigenous leadership for social change, locally, nationally and globally

In this free webinar, Mason Ngawhika, Nikki Timu and Anaru Ah Kew from Healthy Families Manukau, Manurewa-Papakura, will demonstrate how they have provided the tools in support of localised Māori systems, which leverage ancestral practices to inform community-led solutions. They look to shift the focus from a human centred approach to a wairua centred approach that places the environment at the heart as an alternative to mainstream ideologies.
Through Māori systems the team aims to empower communities to return to a place of understanding, being observant and using Te Taiao (the natural environment) as well as Te Taiao Tangata (the built environment) to restore the natural balance and reciprocal relationship between manaaki whenua and manaaki tangata. This supports the notion that when the whenua is cared for, people are naturally ‘well’.
“Ko te awa ko au, ko au ko te awa”
The aim of this webinar is to:

Challenge dominant mainstream discourses which rely solely on Western science or Western health approaches to alleviate the burden of disease and degradation of our natural environment.
Encourage ways for Māori to move from being victims of change, to drivers of change through crafting solutions which enable Māori to adapt and thrive in a constantly changing climate and social system.
Showcase design thinking practices which reframe the paradigm of thinking to a wairua centred approach, which has an emphasis on the ecosystem rather than an ego-system.

About the Presenters

Mason Ngawhika (Te Arawa, Ngai Tahu) is the Kaiārahi Māori or the Māori Responsiveness Manager at Healthy Families Manukau, Manurewa-Papakura.Mason has a background in nutrition and public health. In the past Mason has worked for the Auckland Regional Public Health Service, Hāpai te Hauora and Toi Tangata.

Anaru Ah Kew (Ngāti Hikairo, Ngāti Whawhakia, Kai Tahu) is the Kaiwhakaauaha Pūnaha in the Māori Responsiveness team at Healthy Families Manukau, Manurewa-Papakura.Anaru has a background in Māori mental health where he was responsible for embedding health initiatives within the organisation, focussing on improving health outcomes for Tangata Whaiora.

Nikki Timu (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Kahungunu, Whakatohea) is the Lead Systems Innovator at Healthy Families Manukau, Manurewa-Papakura. She holds portfolios in the sport, physical activity and education spaces with a focus on Māori and indigenous people.Nikki has a background in tertiary education, as an academic in both sport and health contexts. She has recently completed a Master of Physical Education through the University of Otago exploring Māori perspectives on haka in sport.
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month
2018-10-01 - 2018-10-31
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and what better way to show your support for the thousands of women each year who are diagnosed with breast cancer, than by going PINK!
Hundreds of workplaces, schools, community groups and people around New Zealand help raise much needed funds for breast cancer education, research and support each October, and would love for you to join them this year.

Ngā Mata o te Marama Workshop
2018-10-18 14:00 - 16:30 | Ranui Community Centre, 474 Swanson Road, Auckland, New Zealand
Hosted by Tuhi, this is an introduction workshop learning about the phases of the maramataka (Māori lunar cycle), the significance of this traditional mātauranga (knowledge) and with practical ideas and activities your everyday life with your whānau and in your mahi with a focus on people and our emotions.
The workshop is facilitated by Mihi Tibble (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau ā Apanui, Te Arawa, Ngāti Awa) and Geneva Harrison (Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa, Te Aupouri). A number of resources are provided and with the workbook being sent to you on completion of registration.
The workshop will cover:
– our journey and inspiration,
– provide an overview of maramataka and the importance of observations
– a walk through the key phases of the maramataka
– the related atua for certain phases and
– interactive group sessions
You will need to bring a pen and colouring pencils!
Mauri Ora

Stop Cancer Before it Starts
2018-10-29 08:30 - 17:00 | Domain Lodge, 1 Boyle Crescent, Auckland, New Zealand
A one day symposium for the public health sector and policy makers.

About this Event

As part of Cancer Research Week 2018, the Cancer Society invites members of the public health sector and policy makers to a one-day symposium; Stop Cancer Before it Starts: Saving lives with effective tobacco, alcohol & obesity policies.
Cancer affects more than a third of all New Zealanders. Despite considerable progress on more effective treatments, cancer remains New Zealand’s single largest cause of death. However, between 30% and 50% of all cancer cases are preventable and research shows the most effective prevention strategies are national-level policies to reduce risk and harm.
The symposium will focus on three key preventable risk factors; tobacco, alcohol and obesity.
International experts Professor Gerard Hastings and Professor Anna Peeters will discuss the prevention of cancer and other life-threatening, non-communicable diseases through national-level policies. They will be joined by New Zealand experts, Boyd Swinburn, Sally Casswell, Jennie Connor, Richard Edwards and Anaru Waa, plus more speakers to be announced.
This symposium is free to attend but places are strictly limited. Please register to secure your place. Click the green register button at the top of this page and complete the form. If there are no places available, please email smokefree@akcansoc.org.nz to be put on the wait list.
For more information, please contact Cancer Society Auckland Northland on smokefree@akcansoc.org.nz.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Keynote Speaker: Professor Gerard Hastings OBE
Gerard Hastings is Professor Emeritus at Stirling University (UK) and also works with L’École des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique, Rennes. He founded the Institute for Social Marketing which he directed for many years, and his academic career has focused on researching the impact of marketing on society – both for good and ill. This has involved him in advising Government and working with policy makers and civil society both nationally and internationally.
He was a Special Advisor to the House of Commons Health Select Committee during its separate enquiries into the tobacco (2000), food (2004), pharmaceutical (2005), and alcohol industries (2010) and acts as a Temporary Advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) on both communicable and non-communicable disease on a regular basis. He has also been an expert witness in litigation against the tobacco industry in the UK and internationally, and in 2011 successfully challenged the Industry’s right to access confidential research through Freedom of Information. He currently sits on the BMA Board of Science, is a member of the Lancet Obesity Commission, a Trustee of the UK Health Forum and a Schools Speaker for Amnesty International.
He has published widely in academic outlets, especially in health and business journals. His latest books are Social Marketing: Rebels with a Cause (with Christine Domegan) and The Marketing Matrix: how the corporation gets its power and how we can reclaim it are published by Routledge.
In 2009 he was awarded the OBE for services to health care. In 2014 he accepted the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education on behalf of the University of Stirling for the ground-breaking critical marketing research conducted by the Institute for Social Marketing.
Guest Speaker: Professor Anna Peeters
Anna Peeters is Professor of Epidemiology and Equity in Public Health & Head of Obesity and Population Health in the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University, Melbourne.
Anna is a public health researcher, particularly interested in the provision of information to facilitate objective and equitable choices in public health by policy makers, practitioners and the public.
Anna is also on the council of the Australia New Zealand Obesity Society (ANZOS, President 2011-14, Chair ASM 2015), and on advisory boards and steering committees for the Parent’s Jury, the Victorian government’s Equity Focussed Health Impact Assessment advisory group and WorkHealth advisory group, and on the World Cancer Research Fund’s Policy Advisory Group.
Anna has recently been awarded the prestigious World Obesity Federation Andre Mayer Award for 2014 and a Churchill Award (2014). Anna holds an NHMRC Career Development Fellowship.
Guest Speaker: Professor Boyd Swinburn
Boyd Swinburn is the Professor of Population Nutrition and Global Health at the University of Auckland and Alfred Deakin Professor and Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention at Deakin University in Melbourne. He is Co-Chair of the World Obesity/Policy & Prevention (formerly known as IOTF) and was President of the Australia and New Zealand Obesity Society (ANZOS) from 2005-7.
He has also contributed to over 30 WHO consultations and reports on obesity, authored over 300 publications and given over 400 presentations. Through these efforts he is significantly contributing to national and global efforts to reduce the obesity epidemic.
His major research interests are centred on community and policy actions to prevent childhood and adolescent obesity, and reduce, what he has coined, the ‘obesogenic’ food environment.
Guest Speaker: Professor Sally Casswell
Prof Sally Casswell, ONZM, BA(Hons), PhD, FRSNZ has published more than 200 articles in peer reviewed international journals, is a member of the World Health Organisation’s Expert Advisory Panel on Alcohol and Drug Dependence and is currently Chair of the Global Alcohol Policy Alliance and President of the Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol. She holds a personal chair in social and health research and is Director of SHORE and Co-director of the SHORE and Whariki Research Centre, School of Public Health, Massey University.
Her research interests are in social and public health policy, particularly in relation to alcohol. She has a particular interest in development and implementation of healthy public policy at the global level and in international collaborative research. She was selected by her peers to receive the Jellinek Memorial Award, the premier international award for alcohol research.
Guest Speaker: Professor Jennie Connor
Jennie Connor is the Chair of the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, at Otago University Medical School. She is a public health physician and epidemiologist, who teaches epidemiology. She has 20 years experience in public health research that has largely focussed on the health effects of alcohol, injury prevention, and sexual and reproductive health, and is a theme leader in the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study. Professor Connor has completed two assessments of the “Alcohol-attributable burden of disease and injury in New Zealand” with international collaborators, including estimation of alcohol-attributable cancer. She is a medical spokesperson for Alcohol Action New Zealand, an incorporated society advocating for the adoption of evidence-based policy to reduce harm from alcohol.
Guest Speaker: Professor Richard Edwards
Richard is co-director of ASPIRE 2025 research collaboration and co-director of the Health Promotion and Policy Research Unit (HePPRU). Prof Richard Edwards trained as a public health physician in the UK, and came to Wellington in November 2005. He has over 20 years’ experience in tobacco control practice and research in the UK and New Zealand. His main research interests are in tobacco use epidemiology and tobacco control. He has also carried out research in a variety of other areas, notably environmental epidemiology and non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa. His current research focus is on tobacco control policy research, particularly in relation to achieving the Tupeka Kore vision of ending significant tobacco use in Aotearoa/New Zealand by 2025. He is principal investigator on the New Zealand arm of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Evaluation project.
Richard is also co-author of the Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 -a national action plan for tobacco
Guest Speaker: Anaru Waa
Anaru works at ASPIRE University of Otago and is a lecturer in public health. He has a strong interest in tobacco research and is on the national advisory group for Hapai te Hauora’s National Tobacco Advocacy Service, and is a Board member of Action on Smoking and Health.

Addressing Inequities in Childhood Obesity Hui
2018-10-30 09:00 - 13:30 | Domain Lodge, 1 Boyle Crescent, Auckland, New Zealand
A half-day hui on childhood obesity for the public health sector and policy makers.

About this Event

A Cancer Research Week Hui co-hosted by Cancer Society Auckland Northland and Hāpai te Hauora.
This hui features renowned international and national experts who explore the complex nature of childhood obesity. They will examine how disproportionately affects high needs populations; the obesogenic environment; and effective strategies to combat this growing public health challenge.
It is brought to you as part of Cancer Research Week, which in 2018 is focused on cancer prevention.
Cancer affects more than a million New Zealanders and is the single largest cause of death in Aotearoa, New Zealand. And yet more than 30% cancer cases are preventable.
Obesity is one of the key preventable risk factors for cancer, along with smoking and alcohol. It is directly linked with 11 different types of cancer as well as other diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. In fact, obesity is set to overtake smoking as the leading risk factor for cancer.
However, there are effective prevention strategies available to reduce the prevalence of obesity and the harm it causes.
At this half-day hui, you will hear from:

Professor Anna Peeters, an international obesity expert, who will explore effective strategies to address obesity and inequities.
Kaupapa Māori approaches (speaker to be confirmed).

Healthy Auckland Together (HAT) on a collaborative approach to address obesity.
Professor Louise Signal on marketing: New Zealand children exposing their obesogenic world.
Dr Gerhard Sundborn on the impact of sugary drinks on Māori and Pacific communities.
Professor Boyd Swinburn on obesogenic environments and priorities to reduce obesity and inequities.
A facilitated discussion on priorities for policy change and action to reduce obesity and inequities.

This hui is free to attend and lunch is provided. Places are strictly limited to 60 attendees. Please register to secure your place. Click the green register button at the top of this page to complete the form.
For more information please contact the Cancer Society Auckland Northland on smokefree@akcansoc.org.nz
About the Speakers:
Professor Anna Peeters
Anna Peeters is Professor of Epidemiology and Equity in Public Health and Head of Obesity and Population Health at the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University, Melbourne.
She is a public health researcher, particularly interested in the provision of information to facilitate objective and equitable choices in public health by policy makers, practitioners and the public.
Professor Peeters is also on the council of the Australia New Zealand Obesity Society (ANZOS, President 2011-14, Chair ASM 2015), and on advisory boards and steering committees for the Parent’s Jury, the Victorian government’s Equity Focused Health Impact Assessment advisory group and the WorkHealth advisory group. She is also on the World Cancer Research Fund’s Policy Advisory Group.
In 2014, Professor Peeters was awarded the prestigious World Obesity Federation Andre Mayer Award, as well as a Churchill Award.
Professor Boyd Swinburn
Boyd Swinburn is a Professor of Population Nutrition and Global Health at the University of Auckland. He is also an Alfred Deakin Professor and Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention at Deakin University in Melbourne.
He is Co-Chair of the World Obesity/Policy & Prevention (formerly known as IOTF) and was President of the Australia and New Zealand Obesity Society (ANZOS) from 2005-7.
Professor Swinburn has contributed to more than 30 WHO consultations and reports on obesity; authored more than 300 publications; and given more than 400 presentations.
His major research interests are centred on community and policy actions to prevent childhood and adolescent obesity, and reduce the ‘obesogenic’ food environment.
Healthy Auckland Together (HAT)
Healthy Auckland Together is a coalition of 26 organisations representing local government, mana whenua, health agencies, NGOs, university and consumer interest groups.
HAT works to change policy, infrastructure design and planning, so that environments can encourage physical activity and good nutrition.
HAT believes many of the drivers of obesity, inactivity and ill health exist outside the health sector, and changing these environments can be more effective than asking individuals change behaviour.
Speaker to be confirmed.
Professor Louise Signal
Louise Signal is a Director of the Health Promotion and Policy Research Unit at the University of Otago, Wellington.
Her research focuses on identifying and addressing environmental determinants of health and has a strong focus on addressing inequities, particularly for Māori, Pacific and low-income communities.
Her work includes obesity prevention; addressing harm from alcohol and gambling; and tackling inequities in cancer treatment.
She is the Principal Investigator on Kids’Cam, a research programme that uses automated cameras to study the world in which children live. Kids’Cam is part of the HRC-funded DIET programme. Currently there are 16 projects underway or completed using the New Zealand data.
Professor Signal is currently leading similar research in Tonga in collaboration with Dr Viliami Puloka and the Tongan Government.
Dr Gerhard Sundborn
Dr Gerhard Sundborn is a Senior Lecturer, Department of Pacific Health, University of Auckland.
He is of Tongan and NZ European heritage and his research interests are in Pacific health, unhealthy weight, type 2 diabetes, and sugary drink consumption.
He is currently carrying out a solutions-focused, intervention study to prevent dental caries, unhealthy weight, and type 2 diabetes in four Auckland high schools.
In 2013, together with colleagues Dr Sundborn founded FIZZ (Fighting Sugar in Soft-drinks) a public health advocacy group that aims to reduce sugary drink consumption to zero by 2025.

Workshop: Reducing the exposure of alcohol marketing to young people
2018-10-31 09:00 - 13:00 | Domain Lodge, 1 Boyle Crescent, Auckland, New Zealand
A half-day workshop examining alcohol marketing to young people for the public health sector and policy makers.

About this Event

A Cancer Research Week workshop co-hosted by Cancer Society Auckland Northland, SHORE and Whariki Research Centre Massey University, Alcohol Healthwatch and University of Otago.
Featuring renowned international and local experts, this workshop will explore the power of alcohol marketing and effective public health policies to counteract the pervasive promotion of alcohol, especially to young people. It is brought to you as part of Cancer Research Week, which in 2018 is focused on the prevention of cancer.
Alcohol stands with smoking and obesity as one of the key preventable risk factors for cancer. It is directly linked with more than 200 cancer deaths in Aotearoa New Zealand every year, but there are effective prevention strategies available to reduce risk and harm.
You will hear from:

Professor Gerard Hastings, international social marketing expert who will explore the global impact of alcohol marketing
Professor Sally Casswell on how global strategies impact New Zealand adolescents
Professor Jennie Connor on past efforts to restrict alcohol marketing
Professor Antonia Lyons on the use of social media as an alcohol marketing tool
Iain Potter on experiences with tobacco sponsorship
Dr Nicki Jackson facilitating a discussion on priorities for policy change and mobilising communities.

This workshop is free to attend, but places are strictly limited to 60 attendees. Please register to secure your place. Click the green register button at the top of this page to complete the form. If there are no places available, please email smokefree@akcansoc.org.nz to be put on the wait list. Please put ‘alcohol workshop’ in the subject line, as there are several events taking place during Cancer Research Week.
For more information please contact Cancer Society Auckland Northland on smokefree@akcansoc.org.nz
About the speakers:
Keynote Speaker: Professor Gerard Hastings OBE
Gerard Hastings is Professor Emeritus at Stirling University (UK) is recognised as the world’s leading social marketing academic. He founded the Institute for Social Marketing which he directed for many years, and his academic career has focused on researching the impact of marketing on society – both for good and ill. This has involved him in advising Government and working with policy makers and civil society both nationally and internationally.
He was Special Advisor to the House of Commons Health Select Committee during enquiries into the alcohol industry (2010) as well as enquiries into tobacco (2000), food (2004) and pharmaceuticals (2005).He has also been an advisor to the World Health Organization.
He has published widely in academic outlets, especially in health and business journals. His latest books are Social Marketing: Rebels with a Cause (with Christine Domegan) and The Marketing Matrix: how the corporation gets its power and how we can reclaim it are published by Routledge.
In 2009 he was awarded the OBE for services to health care. In 2014 he accepted the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education on behalf of the University of Stirling for the ground-breaking critical marketing research conducted by the Institute for Social Marketing.
Professor Sally Casswell
Prof Sally Casswell, ONZM, BA(Hons), PhD, FRSNZ has published more than 200 articles in peer reviewed international journals, is a member of the World Health Organisation’s Expert Advisory Panel on Alcohol and Drug Dependence and is currently Chair of the Global Alcohol Policy Alliance and President of the Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol. She holds a personal chair in social and health research and is Director of SHORE and Co-director of the SHORE and Whariki Research Centre, School of Public Health, Massey University.
Her research interests are in social and public health policy, particularly in relation to alcohol. She has a particular interest in development and implementation of healthy public policy at the global level and in international collaborative research. She was selected by her peers to receive the Jellinek Memorial Award, the premier international award for alcohol research.
Professor Jennie Connor
Jennie Connor is the Chair of the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, at Otago University Medical School. She is a public health physician and epidemiologist, who teaches epidemiology. She has 20 years experience in public health research that has largely focussed on the health effects of alcohol, injury prevention, and sexual and reproductive health, and is a theme leader in the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study. Professor Connor has completed two assessments of the “Alcohol-attributable burden of disease and injury in New Zealand” with international collaborators, including estimation of alcohol-attributable cancer. She is a medical spokesperson for Alcohol Action New Zealand, an incorporated society advocating for the adoption of evidence-based policy to reduce harm from alcohol.
Professor Antonia Lyons
Antonia Lyons is Professor of Health Psychology and Head of School at the School of Health, Victoria University of Wellington. Prof. Lyons has been teaching health psychology at various levels since 1996. Previously she coordinated the Masters in Health Psychology programme at Massey University, and also lectured in health and social psychology at the University of Birmingham, UK. Prof. Lyons has published widely on the social and cultural contexts of behaviours related to health and their implications for individual subjectivities, gendered identities and embodied experiences. She is currently a co-editor for the journal Qualitative Research in Psychology and an associate editor for Psychology and Health, and (with Prof Kerry Chamberlain) she co-edits the Routledge book series Critical Approaches to Health. She is a founding member of the International Society for Critical Health Psychology.
Dr Nicki Jackson
Nicki joined Alcohol Healthwatch as the Director in February 2017. She brings extensive academic and practice experience in health promotion and alcohol harm reduction, in particular. Her background comprises: developing and delivering training in evidence-based public health in Australia, leading the Health Promotion undergraduate degree at AUT University, and managing the alcohol and tobacco regulatory and health promotion activities of the Auckland Regional Public Health Service. Her work in public health evidence has been recognised by the World Health Organisation. In 2016, she completed her PhD investigating adolescent alcohol use in New Zealand and won the University of Auckland Vice Chancellor’s Excellence Award for best Doctoral thesis at the University in 2016. She is also an Honorary Academic at the University of Auckland.

The Auckland Walk Challenge
2018-11-01 - 2018-11-30
When and where
Date: 1 to 30 November 2018.
Location: Auckland-wide.
The Auckland Walk Challenge is back by popular demand – this time for the month of November.
Start summer feeling great by joining this year’s challenge. This free, month-long event runs from 1-30 November and aims at getting more people walking in Auckland.
Complete weekly challenges and be in to win a great range of prizes throughout the month as you ‘virtually’ walk the length of New Zealand.
Just walk for at least 30 minutes a day – to work, to the bus stop, to the local shops – and track your distance online. It’s fun, it’s FREE, it’s easy and good for you. Track your steps through the simple online platform or sync your activity tracker device.
Registration is now open, so why not form a team with colleagues or friends and family and take to two legs this Spring.
There are lots of great prizes, including Blunt umbrellas, ferry passes to some of our fabulous Hauraki Gulf Islands, organic food hampers and a double pass for the Auckland Bridge Climb.
Sign up for the Challenge now:
Find out more and register for The Auckland Walk Challenge
Register by 27 October and be entered into the draw to win a Fitbit Charge 2.

MAURI ORA The Metrics Of Flourishing
2018-11-09 09:00 - 15:00 | Quality Hotel Plymouth International, Corner Courtenay and Leach Street, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Compass Seminars is delighted to bring you the opportunity to spend a day with Sir Mason Durie who will discuss a range of topics relating to principles for working with Māori and Māori development. Sir Mason speaks with a freshness and clarity of understanding, if you have been fortunate enough to hear him speak before you will know that this is an opportunity not to be missed.
Regardless of whether your professional focus is on prevention, promotion, treatment, education, rehabilitation or development, well-being is ultimately dependent upon the dynamic interaction of people with each other and with the wider cultural, social, economic, political and physical environments in which people live. Sir Mason will unwrap how Māori wellbeing is the product of these combined forces acting on the past and present experiences so that future prospects can be enhanced.
Some of the key areas that will be discussed include:

Mauri Ora and Mauri noho – flourishing and languishing
Current and future cultural demographics in New Zealand and implications for a changing society
Personal and environmental risks to wellbeing, and measures to build resilience
The application of Māori perspectives to therapeutic interventions
The importance of Whānau and Whānau development for Aotearoa in the future

Sir Mason will be speaking about issues that are relevant to all professionals working in health, welfare, education and community settings.
Sir Mason Durie is from Rangitane, Ngāti Kauwhata and Ngāti Raukawa. He is a medical practitioner and specialist psychiatrist and has held the positions of Professor of Māori Studies and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Massey University. He has particular interests in health, education, indigenous advancement, mental health care and Māori development. He has served on a number of Boards and Trusts, including the Families Commission, Secondary Futures, Te Papa Tongarewa, the Foundation for Research Science and Technology, the National Health Committee, the Mental Health Foundation, the Alcohol & Liquor Advisory Council, the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Māori Health, the Whānau Ora Governance Group and the Mental Health Foundation. He was knighted in 2010 for his contributions to Public Health and especially to Māori Health.
We would recommend you register early as Sir Mason’s previous seminars have been fully subscribed.

He kai kei aku ringa: Food security, sovereignty and systems in Aotearoa
2018-12-04 10:00 - 11:00 | Online
Food security is a major issue in Aotearoa. Only two in five Maori households have stable access to nutritious kai and utilise it. Estimates are that a poor diet claims between 8,000 and 11,000 NZ lives each year, but nutritious kai doesn’t simply prevent illness, it enhances health and wellbeing.
Our access to kai is limited by the food system and by our knowledge. The food system is comprised of producers, distributors, retailers and consumers and everyone has an impact on that system (and our environment). The food system is allegedly consumer-driven, that is, consumers tell the rest of the system what they want. But for those in poverty, the food system is led by massive globalised corporations, who frequently discount food with poor nutrition as “loss leaders” to promote consumption.
Colonisation has also contributed to loss of knowledge. NZ Māori were (and are) “once were gardeners”, but the knowledge of our forebears is randomly pocketed with no critical mass. Many communities are responding by employing sovereignty strategies in a worldwide movement to develop local sustainable food systems.
Already some growers have begun initiatives to feed their people, but are these pockets of resistance enough? What will overcome the pressing need of poverty? This webinar discusses these issues and potential solutions.
Dr Geoff Kira
Dr Geoff Kira is a Māori (Ngā Puhi) and public health scientist from Massey University who focusses on upstream initiatives to counter major public health issues. The phrase, “Communities often have the answers to many regional problems” is currently leading his research which focusses on a social justice approach. He has just completed a food security study, based on a fruit and vegetable co-operative model, with a community living in high deprivation. This study has confirmed previously unknown concepts about food and poverty. Geoff draws on current research and community initiatives to explore what the food system might look like in the future and what we as health promoters can do.

Toi Tangata Office Closed
2018-12-22 - 2019-01-08

Saltwater Sensations: Te Ao Māori and a sense of place through heke ngaru (Surfing)
2019-01-30 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
Māori have a unique relationship with the ocean that stretches back many generations to the arrival of the seminal voyaging canoes. Since that time, Māori have ridden waves on various types of surfcraft but while the literature identifies the therapeutic effects of surfing and place-based health, there is a distinct lack of cultural identity and environmental spirituality identified within these largely Western-based studies.
Join Dr Jordan Waiti for this hour long webinar where he will share his insights around his study of heke ngaru (surfing). Utilising key informant interviews, an online survey, historical and auto-ethnographic accounts, the study found that Heke Ngaru was a traditional cultural custom that enhanced all aspects of Te Whare Tapa Whā (Durie, 1985). The results suggest that for some Māori a deep sense of place prevails with certain surf breaks in Aotearoa, and that this sense of place manifests an array of thoughts and feelings related to spiritual, familial, physical and cognitive perceptions. For some, these thoughts and feelings relate back many generations to their tribal ancestors, tribal boundaries or directly to specific atua such as Tangaroa and Hinemoana.
In a wider sense, the implications of these findings highlight the need to ensure that these oceanscapes and surf breaks are maintained for the future benefit of all New Zealanders’. Moreover, that reclaiming this space through heke ngaru participation is a potential future pathway for optimal Māori health and wellbeing.

Aotearoa Bike Challenge
2019-02-01 - 2019-02-28
A fun, free challenge to encourage you and your colleagues to experience first hand joys and benefits of riding a bike.
It’s all about participation – which workplaces can get the most people to ride a bike for just 10 minutes or more? Organisations across the country will compete against each other to see who can get the most staff to ride a bike during the Challenge (1-28 Feb).
It’s not about who can ride the most kilometres, but who can encourage the most people to give bicycling a try. The teams which get the highest percentage of their staff riding for their size category will win.
HOW TO TAKE PART
Follow these four steps:

Register on this website, it’s free. Register here
Ride a bike anywhere, anytime for at least 10 minutes during the Challenge (1-28 February)
Record your ride on this site and tell your friends and coworkers about the Challenge.
Reward yourself and your friends by winning prizes!

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Toi Tangata Hui ā Tau 2019
2019-03-04 - 2019-03-06
Info coming soon, watch this space!

Pataka Oranga
2019-03-29 09:00 - 15:00 | 821 Orchard Road, Hastings, 821 Orchard Road, Hastings, New Zealand
Learn the fundamentals of co design principles that enable tangible outcomes towards food security & food sovereignty.
Kai (food) is not just nourishment, it is a livelihood embedded in values, tradition, and social and spiritual wellbeing.
This workshop will share knowledge on food security and food sovereignty, exploring conversations and design on the availability of safe kai in a socially acceptable way and the effects of global food companies on our wellbeing.
We will explore the role of pataka as a metaphoric codesign tool to guide conversations and design with the aim of participants having an awareness of how to address community needs to achieve tangible and positive outcomes, using mātauranga systems of kai including maramataka, karakia and whakatauki.
Participants will leave with a heightened awareness of the importance of food security and food sovereignty within the Kahungunu region and how to design an authentic kaupapa using co design approach.
Register Here

Atua Matua - Maori Environmental Framework
2019-06-06 08:30 - 2019-06-07 16:30
In this unique Wananga you will experience the incredible potential of Atua Matua as a framework to enhance the recreation and outdoor education opportunities for your communities. Discover how the health of our people and places can begin with connections to the environment. Join us for a life-changing journey into Te Ao Maori and te reo – the world will never look the same to you again.

What will the wananga include? Practical experience of the Atua Matua framework – systems approaches, understanding environmental effect and how we engage with recreation, mountains, outdoors content of how we might engage with these places, practical experiences Introduction to Current Maori frameworks that link to recreation, sport, outdoor education, physical education, wheke, nga mana, te whare tapa wha Opportunity to engage with local marae and tikanga through three noho (staying over) At 4 locations over a 5-month period, each location encompasses a two-day programme with overnight accommodation including all meals. The first location is in Rotorua on 6 & 7 June 2019 There are only 12 places available The cost to be on this journey is $2,750 + GST

Men's Health Week 2019
2019-06-10 - 2019-06-16
The focus for Mens Health Week 2019 will be the impact of inequality and deprivation on men’s health – Mens Health Forum will be releasing reports and materials on the issue nearer the time.
If you’d like to help support the week – and help Mens Health Forum make it bigger and better, please donate now towards the cost. They’re keen to develop more materials and do more to raise awareness of the week and donations towards the week really help with this.
Free materials from previous weeks are available now from the Men’s Health Forum online shop.

Public Health Prevention Conference 2019
2019-06-12 08:30 - 2019-06-14 17:00 | Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Australia
The Public Health Prevention Conference is returning in 2019, following the hugely successful first iteration of the Conference in 2018. The 2019 Conference theme is ‘Smashing the Silos’. Two Conference Sub-Themes will guide the programme:
. Economics of prevention
. What is working, what needs to be strengthened and what are the biggest gaps in prevention systems.
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Food availability for Māori children – a rights based approach
2019-06-14 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
Guest presenter, Christina McKerchar (Ngāti Kahungunu, Tūhoe & Ngāti Porou) will present initial findings from her PhD research ‘Food availability for Maori children – a rights based approach’. The first part of her research used photographic data from the Kids’Cam research project which explored the world in which children live today. Christina will outline some findings from Kids’Cam and some initial draft findings from her PhD.

International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference 2019
2019-06-18 - 2019-06-20 | Darwin Convention Centre
The Lowitja Institute International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing conference will be an Indigenous space built on First Nations knowledges and values.
​It will be a space to connect Indigenous peoples, and non-Indigenous colleagues, and share the journey together.
​Through the conference theme, the Institute invites an important discussion about the futures we want as Indigenous peoples and our contribution to the wellbeing of the planet.

Second New Zealand Walking Summit
2019-06-20 09:00 - 2019-06-21 17:00 | Auckland Transport, 21 Viaduct Harbour, Auckland, New Zealand
This Walking Summit is in Auckland Viaduct Harbour It includes one day on Walking to School and Play and day two Walking and Public Transport

Walking Summit programme
There are two themes for our two-day event –

Children walking to school and play – the future for healthy lifestyles
Walking and public transport – key connectors

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Matariki 2019
2019-06-25 - 2019-07-03
Matariki is the Māori name for a cluster of stars which is visible in our night sky at a specific time of the year. In 2019, from 25 to 28 June, Matariki will re-appear in the dawn sky – signalling the start of the Māori New Year.
It is a time to celebrate new life, to remember those who’ve passed and to plan for the future. And it’s a time to spend with whānau and friends – to enjoy kai (food), waiata (song), tākaro (games) and haka.
Our tūpuna (ancestors) would look to Matariki for help with their harvesting. When Matariki disappeared in April/May, it was time to preserve crops for the winter season. When it re-appeared in June/July, tūpuna would read the stars to predict the upcoming season – clear and bright stars promised a warm and abundant winter while hazy stars warned of a bleak winter.
Because Māori follow the Māori lunar calendar, not the European calendar, the dates for Matariki change every year.
When to observe Matariki

The optimum time to observe the rising of Matariki is in the phase of the moon known as Tangaroa, the moon of plenty. The Tangaroa moon phase occurs in the three or four days leading to a new moon and will fall on different dates each year.
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NZIFST CONFERENCE 2019
2019-07-02 07:30 - 2019-07-04 16:00 | Christchurch Town Hall, Kilmore Street, Christchurch, New Zealand
The conference theme for 2019 is GOOD FOOD which speaks to the concept that food should be good in lots of ways, including the community, the planet, me as a person, and business. This creates the four main themes that we will thread throughout the conference – GOOD FOOD 4.

Toi Ako Webinar: Focus on kai: What does a Low Carb High Fat diet have to offer? With Dr Lily Fraser
2019-07-26 10:30 - 11:30 | Online
In this hour long free webinar we will be joined by Dr Lily Fraser, who will discuss the application of Low Carbohydrate High Fat (LCHF) nutrition at Turuki Healthcare in Mangere, Auckland. With a focus on Māori and Pacific food and making nutrition changes on a low income budget, Dr Fraser will cover her personal journey since following a Low Carb High Fat diet since 2014 and how she now supports her patients to make nutrition changes for weight loss, diabetes control and many other health benefits.

Maramataka in the Workplace Wānanga
2019-07-30 09:00 - 15:00 | Waiwhetū Marae, 21 Puketapu Grove, Lower Hutt, Wellington, 5010, New Zealand
An empowering and informative wānanga to help you learn how to use the Māori systems framework of maramataka in the workplace.

About this Event

This maramataka planning wānanga is designed to be empowering and informative and is an opportunity for you to learn from an expert with over 14 years’ experience.
Over the course of the day you will learn how to use maramataka to reclaim your time, energy and space. Using maramataka as a planning tool can help you become more aware of the environment and the moon’s energies to plan and execute the right activities at the right time.
To make the most of the workshop, there are a few things you may like to consider beforehand, including identifying the purpose of your organisation and what your role is to help achieve this.
A few other things you could do in preparation are;
● Review and bring a copy of your organisation’s strategic and annual plan.
● Consider any up and coming important work event dates, project deadlines and reports due dates (next 12 months)
● Dates for annual leave and if your organisation will continue to deliver services during Dec/Jan Christmas/New Year period.
● Personal and whanau goals that you may want to incorporate into your maramataka planning
● Our unique maramataka wall planner will be used by participants as a tool to map out the 2019-2020 year starting in Matariki.
Participants will be empowered to achieve and produce using matauranga Maori!
**BONUS**
You will also receive a maramataka Māori wall planner, a great tool to help you observe, plan and action your mahi.

About the facilitator
Heeni Hoterene (Ngati Hine, Nga Puhi, Ngati Raukawa ki te tonga, Ngai Tahu ki kaikoura) will facilitate this interactive one day session on how to use the Maramataka M`āori as a planning tool within the work force. She has 14 years experience at delivering this wananga across a wide variety of sectors including education, early childhood education, kura kaupapa Māori, health roopu, government departments, and whanau and hapu groups.Heeni has trained over 3000 practioners of maramataka using the unique colour code maramataka classification system. She is a researcher, facilitator, broadcaster and organic gardener with practical experience at building rammed earth off grid papakainga in Te Taitokerau.

Maramataka in the Education Space Wānanga
2019-07-31 09:30 - 15:30 | Te Ahi Kaa, 48 Watsons Road, Harewood, Christchurch, 8051, New Zealand
