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SUMMARY:Breast Cancer Awareness Month
DESCRIPTION: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! \nHundreds 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.
URL:https://hekai.co.nz/event/breast-cancer-awareness-month/
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SUMMARY:Ngā Mata o te Marama Workshop
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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. \nThe workshop will cover: \n– our journey and inspiration\,\n– provide an overview of maramataka and the importance of observations\n– a walk through the key phases of the maramataka\n– the related atua for certain phases and\n– interactive group sessions \nYou will need to bring a pen and colouring pencils! \nMauri Ora
URL:https://hekai.co.nz/event/nga-mata-o-te-marama-workshop/
LOCATION:Ranui Community Centre\, 474 Swanson Road\, Auckland\, New Zealand
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SUMMARY:Stop Cancer Before it Starts
DESCRIPTION:A one day symposium for the public health sector and policy makers.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nAs 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. \nCancer 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. \nThe symposium will focus on three key preventable risk factors; tobacco\, alcohol and obesity. \nInternational 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. \nThis 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. \nFor more information\, please contact Cancer Society Auckland Northland on smokefree@akcansoc.org.nz. \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS \nKeynote Speaker: Professor Gerard Hastings OBE \nGerard 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. \nHe 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. \nHe 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. \nIn 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. \nGuest Speaker: Professor Anna Peeters \nAnna 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. \nAnna 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. \nAnna 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. \nAnna 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. \nGuest Speaker: Professor Boyd Swinburn \nBoyd 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. \nHe 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. \nHis 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. \nGuest Speaker: Professor Sally Casswell \nProf 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. \nHer 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. \nGuest Speaker: Professor Jennie Connor \nJennie 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. \nGuest Speaker: Professor Richard Edwards \nRichard 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. \nRichard is also co-author of the Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 -a national action plan for tobacco \nGuest Speaker: Anaru Waa \nAnaru 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.
URL:https://hekai.co.nz/event/stop-cancer-before-it-starts/
LOCATION:Domain Lodge\, 1 Boyle Crescent\, Auckland\, New Zealand
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SUMMARY:Addressing Inequities in Childhood Obesity Hui
DESCRIPTION:A half-day hui on childhood obesity for the public health sector and policy makers.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nA Cancer Research Week Hui co-hosted by Cancer Society Auckland Northland and Hāpai te Hauora. \nThis 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. \nIt is brought to you as part of Cancer Research Week\, which in 2018 is focused on cancer prevention. \nCancer 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. \nObesity 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. \nHowever\, there are effective prevention strategies available to reduce the prevalence of obesity and the harm it causes. \nAt this half-day hui\, you will hear from: \n\nProfessor Anna Peeters\, an international obesity expert\, who will explore effective strategies to address obesity and inequities.\nKaupapa Māori approaches (speaker to be confirmed).\n\n\nHealthy Auckland Together (HAT) on a collaborative approach to address obesity.\nProfessor Louise Signal on marketing: New Zealand children exposing their obesogenic world.\nDr Gerhard Sundborn on the impact of sugary drinks on Māori and Pacific communities.\nProfessor Boyd Swinburn on obesogenic environments and priorities to reduce obesity and inequities.\nA facilitated discussion on priorities for policy change and action to reduce obesity and inequities.\n\nThis 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. \nFor more information please contact the Cancer Society Auckland Northland on smokefree@akcansoc.org.nz \nAbout the Speakers: \nProfessor Anna Peeters \nAnna 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. \nShe 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. \nProfessor 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. \nIn 2014\, Professor Peeters was awarded the prestigious World Obesity Federation Andre Mayer Award\, as well as a Churchill Award. \nProfessor Boyd Swinburn \nBoyd 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. \nHe 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. \nProfessor Swinburn has contributed to more than 30 WHO consultations and reports on obesity; authored more than 300 publications; and given more than 400 presentations. \nHis major research interests are centred on community and policy actions to prevent childhood and adolescent obesity\, and reduce the ‘obesogenic’ food environment. \nHealthy Auckland Together (HAT) \nHealthy Auckland Together is a coalition of 26 organisations representing local government\, mana whenua\, health agencies\, NGOs\, university and consumer interest groups. \nHAT works to change policy\, infrastructure design and planning\, so that environments can encourage physical activity and good nutrition. \nHAT 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. \nSpeaker to be confirmed. \nProfessor Louise Signal \nLouise Signal is a Director of the Health Promotion and Policy Research Unit at the University of Otago\, Wellington. \nHer 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. \nHer work includes obesity prevention; addressing harm from alcohol and gambling; and tackling inequities in cancer treatment. \nShe 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. \nProfessor Signal is currently leading similar research in Tonga in collaboration with Dr Viliami Puloka and the Tongan Government. \nDr Gerhard Sundborn \nDr Gerhard Sundborn is a Senior Lecturer\, Department of Pacific Health\, University of Auckland. \nHe is of Tongan and NZ European heritage and his research interests are in Pacific health\, unhealthy weight\, type 2 diabetes\, and sugary drink consumption. \nHe is currently carrying out a solutions-focused\, intervention study to prevent dental caries\, unhealthy weight\, and type 2 diabetes in four Auckland high schools. \nIn 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.
URL:https://hekai.co.nz/event/addressing-inequities-in-childhood-obesity-hui/
LOCATION:Domain Lodge\, 1 Boyle Crescent\, Auckland\, New Zealand
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Reducing the exposure of alcohol marketing to young people
DESCRIPTION:A half-day workshop examining alcohol marketing to young people for the public health sector and policy makers.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nA Cancer Research Week workshop co-hosted by Cancer Society Auckland Northland\, SHORE and Whariki Research Centre Massey University\, Alcohol Healthwatch and University of Otago. \nFeaturing 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. \nAlcohol 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. \nYou will hear from: \n\nProfessor Gerard Hastings\, international social marketing expert who will explore the global impact of alcohol marketing\nProfessor Sally Casswell on how global strategies impact New Zealand adolescents\nProfessor Jennie Connor on past efforts to restrict alcohol marketing\nProfessor Antonia Lyons on the use of social media as an alcohol marketing tool\nIain Potter on experiences with tobacco sponsorship\nDr Nicki Jackson facilitating a discussion on priorities for policy change and mobilising communities.\n\nThis 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. \nFor more information please contact Cancer Society Auckland Northland on smokefree@akcansoc.org.nz \nAbout the speakers: \nKeynote Speaker: Professor Gerard Hastings OBE \nGerard 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. \nHe 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. \nHe 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. \nIn 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. \nProfessor Sally Casswell \nProf 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. \nHer 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. \nProfessor Jennie Connor \nJennie 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. \nProfessor Antonia Lyons \nAntonia 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. \nDr Nicki Jackson \nNicki 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.
URL:https://hekai.co.nz/event/workshop-reducing-the-exposure-of-alcohol-marketing-to-young-people/
LOCATION:Domain Lodge\, 1 Boyle Crescent\, Auckland\, New Zealand
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