Global challenges and the future of health promotion: What are the implications for Aotearoa New Zealand?

The environmental crisis, the economic crisis, pandemics such as Covid-19 are three global challenges that impact on human wellbeing, and our understanding of health promotion.

Our panel of experts will explore the implications of these challenges to our current understanding and application of health promotion in Aotearoa New Zealand. We will also explore some pathways into the future. Participants and the panel will discuss the following questions:

• How can we elevate our consciousness of health promotion to include the health of our common home – planet Earth?

• How can we broaden our understanding of health promotion to include Indigenous approaches to global environmental crises?

• What practical solutions can health promoters adopt as they work within institutions and engage with families and communities to address the environmental crises at a local level?

Panel

Dr Viliami Tutone

Viliami is a renal physician at Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, who applies health promotion approaches to his community development work in Aotearoa New Zealand, and his professional interest in planetary health. He is a member of the Global Working Group on Waiora Planetary Health and Human Wellbeing, of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE).

Sione Tu’itahi

Sione is the Executive Director of HPF and member of the Global Board of IUHPE. He is also the Co-Chair of the IUHPE Global Working Group on Waiora Planetary Health and Human Wellbeing

Associate Professor Rachel Simon-Kumar

Director, Health Promotion at the School of Population Health, and co-Director, Centre for Asian and Ethnic Minority Health Research and Evaluation (CAHRE) at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland

More panellists will be announced later.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Participants are encouraged to participate in the exercises and material that will be disseminated before the webishop.

Contact Emma Frost for further information on emma@hauora.co.nz or 09 300 3734 or visit our website www.hauora.co.nz.