Healthier Lives
He Oranga Hauora
NATIONAL SCIENCE CHALLENGE
He rangahau mahi tahi hei whakapiki i te ārainga me te taurimatanga o te mate pukupuku, o te mate iaia manawa, o te mate huka me te mate mōmona, mō te katoa.
Collaborative research to equitably improve the prevention and treatment of cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity.
Research Themes
Healthy food and physical activity environments
Culturally centred health interventions for Māori and Pacific peoples
Precision medicine and personalised prevention
Recent News
Healthier Lives welcomes HRC funding announcement
Healthier Lives welcomes the announcement of $68.3 million in new project and programme grants awarded by the…
Webinars: Ngā Taonga Tuku Iho, Wai 262 and the National Science Challenges
The Rauika Māngai hosted a two-part webinar series on the 21 and 27 July focussing on the…
Project hui: Manawataki Fatu Fatu for ACCESS
Heart health researchers, clinicians, first-responders, funders and planners gathered at a hui in Auckland to discuss how…
Fono: Måür Lelei – Health and Wellbeing Together
On June 25, Pacific researchers hosted Måür Lelei, a Pacific Peoples’ fono in Auckland. This event brought researchers…
New project to support health system change in Aotearoa New Zealand
While evidence-based health services introduced over the past 40 years have contributed to overall health gains in…
Symposium: Innovations in Applied Data
The Innovations in Applied Data Symposium was held on Thursday 3 June 2021 at Te Papa in…
Album sales fund cancer research
A posthumous album Songs For The Family from Malcolm Black, ex-frontman of Netherworld Dancing Toys, is raising…
Healthier Lives May newsletter
In this issue: Empowering Pasifika youth to prevent prediabetes, A national approach for type 2 diabetes could…
Pasifika youth become researchers and leaders on prediabetes prevention
The Pasifika Prediabetes Youth Empowerment Programme (PPYEP) research project aimed to find new ways of reducing the…
Better podiatry services can avoid diabetes-related amputations and save lives
MEDIA RELEASE Around 600 amputations could be avoided in New Zealand each year if better foot screening…
