Rongoā Māori

Rongoā Māori is traditional healing [practices] compris[ing] many different techniques including, mirimiri (bodywork), rākau rongoā (native flora herbal preparations), and karakia (prayer).
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Mau Te Rangimarie Clark is an emerging Māori health researcher dedicated to challenging systemic inequities in mental health and improving healthcare for Māori.

Kahurangi Fergusson-Tibble has focused his career on the mental health, addictions, and disabilities sector.

“Māwai te kauwae o Kawa e tō ki uta ki tawhiti!” Nā Kawatapuarangi

Dr Ricky Bell has a clinical background with over 30 years of experience in the health sector.

Dr Glenn Doherty has held multiple roles in the health sector, which has resulted in a strategic, innovative, and inclusive leadership style. An essential feature of Glenn’s day-to-day focus is teaching and mentoring the next generation of health professionals.

She supports those who suffer from mental health issues and drug use, helping them to reconnect with themselves, their whānau, culture, and society.

Gilbert Taurua is deeply passionate about using a Māori perspective in law reform concerning health, justice, inequality, and prisons. Gilbert has extensive experience in Treaty of Waitangi principles, Whānau Ora, their application to health pathways, Te Reo Māori, Tikanga, and government processes.

Kelly is committed to enhancing the well-being of her community, using her knowledge and experience to support and empower individuals and whānau.

Ko Maataatua te Waka

Ko Maungapōhatu te Maunga

Ko Hinemataroa te Awa

Ko Tūhoe te Iwi

Ko Ngaati Tawhaki, Ngaati Rongo, me te Maahurehure ngā hapū

Māmā of two girls, working full time and always focused on equity and better outcomes for our people.

He is passionate about using traditional Māori forms of exercise and healing in his mentoring and training roles.

Ruatau Perez is passionate about sharing his knowledge of Whare Wānanga, guided by his own Tūpuna to share an indigenous worldview of health and well-being for modern-day living.

Tia Haira is a biomedical scientist specialising in chemical genetics, immunology, and biobanks within mātauranga Māori and western science systems.

Sarah Kinred is a trained teacher with over 20 years of experience teaching and creating programs for students. Sarah also has over ten years of experience working as a Mātauranga Māori specialist within mental health and addictions, and she is committed to ensuring that tino rangatiratanga and mana motuhake is paramount for Māori, especially when engaging in the health system.

Ruahine Albert is passionate about social justice and works in local, national, and international government and community services to improve the well-being of survivors of violence.

Paora firmly believes in using traditional sites of significance as authentic connections for positive individual and collective transformation and Whakapapa as pathways to optimum health and well-being.

Gloria Sheridan, first and foremost, is a Māori wāhine, wife, mother, grandmother, sister, daughter, and mokopuna with strong connections to Te Tairāwhiti. She is passionate about advocating equity and choice for Māori to counter the ideologies of the current Western medical system

Growing up with Te Reo as her first language and through kōhanga reo and kura Kaupapa, Aroha believes health interventions are already within pūrākau and traditional Māori practices.

For the past three decades, Awerangi Tamihere (MNZM) has dedicated her career to strategic health planning, organisational development, and the reform of social policies, with a primary emphasis on whānau development.

Adele Hauwai is a mentor and facilitator who strongly focuses on supporting and contributing to mental health, well-being, and suicide prevention work.

Almost twenty years later, Alexander has used his passion and knowledge of addressing historical sexual violence trauma, mental illness, addictions, and well-being to support Māori and Pacific communities across Aotearoa, where he has worked with over 3,500 men with childhood experiences of sexual violence.

Professor Jonathan Koea is an Auckland-based general surgeon who specialises in the health of the liver, gallbladder, stomach, pancreas, and gastrointestinal tract.

Patrick Salmon is an advocate and public voice for ways to share and uphold the well-being of Māori in modern-day society. He uses his creative skills and innovative thinking to develop solutions that support the oranga aspirations of a person's life journey.

Her work is focused on ensuring future health services are firmly underpinned by a kaupapa Māori approach, informed by mātauranga Māori and lived experience.

Tess believes that the end of life and dying are important opportunities for us to release the past, forgive, be forgiven, and to love without conditions.

Ronald Baker was born in Hastings, the older of twin boys to Rutu Tawhiorangi Tumaurirere-Baker.

Rongoā Māori

Waikato/Tainui, Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Kahungunu ki te Wairoa

Ngāti Porou, Te Aitanga ā Mahaki, Ngāti Uenukukopako

Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Whakaue, Te Whakatōhea, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui, Ngāti Porou

Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hau, Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri

Ngāti Porou

Ngāti Maniapoto

Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kāwa, Ati Haunui A Pāpārangi, Ngāti Pāmoana

Te Aitanga a Hauiti

Ngāi Tūhoe

Taranaki, Ngāpuhi

Tauranga Moana, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Maniapoto

Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāpuhi

Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Tūhourangi, Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Rangiteaorere

Ngāti Whātua, Waikato, Ngāti Koata, Te Atiawa, Manx

Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Tainui

Ngāti Rangiwewehi, Te Arawa, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa

Ngāti Porou, Ngāpuhi, Te Whānau a Āpanui, Whakatōhea, , Ngati Kahungunu, Rongowhakaata

Ngāti Awa, Ngai Tūhoe, Te Arawa, Tūwharetoa

Ngāti Kauwhata, Rangitane, Ngāti Porou, Rongowhakaata, Ngāi Tahu

Ngāti-Kahungunu, Ngaī Tuhoe, Ngāti-Maniapoto, Ngāti-Pahauwera

Ngāti Kahu ki Whaingaroa, Ngāpuhi

Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Tama

Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Arawa, Ngāti Tukorehe, Rongowhakaata, Tūwharetoa

Raukawa ki Wharepūhunga, Ngāti Maniapoto

Ngāi Tai, Ngāti Porou

Ngāti Porou, Te Aitanga a Hauiti, Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Te Whānau o Rongomaiwahine