This website captures the work of the Healthier Lives–He Oranga Hauora National Science Challenge (2015-2024).
You will find a full summary of our work here and you are welcome to browse the rich array of material on this website.
Healthier Lives
He Oranga Hauora
NATIONAL SCIENCE CHALLENGE, 2015-2024
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
News stories
Inventory of policies for major non-communicable diseases
Healthier Lives recently commissioned an audit of government policies related to our mission – the equitable prevention…
Conference: National Kaumātua Service Providers, 14-16 November 2022
2022 National Kaumātua Service Providers Conference, 14-16 November 2022, Whanganui, More information and registration details are available…
Webinar: Unpacking Diabetes and the Heart, 28 July 2022
Unpacking Diabetes and the Heart: Latest on Risk and Management Strategies, 28 July 2022, 7pm AEST (9pm…
Healthier Lives Newsletter June 2022
Mānawatia a Matariki Rere atu kā mihi I raro I tēnei putaka o te tau, arā ko…
Research voices: Truely Harding
Dr Truely Harding has navigated both Māori and Pākehā worlds her whole life, and this has shaped…
3rd New Zealand–China Non-Communicable Disease Research Cooperation Forum
Third annual forum to present and discuss collaboration between New Zealand and China in research relating to…
Healthier Lives Newsletter May 2022
In this issue: Director’s message: Action on diabetes, Exhibition: GENOME, science of life, Funding announcement: New projects, Project…
Healthier Lives Newsletter February 2022
In this issue: ACTIVATION: The Getting Around survey Research voices: Elizabeth Okiakama Research Findings Brief: Pasifika Prediabetes…
ACTIVATION: The Getting Around Survey 2021
A recent survey of residents living in a new social housing development in Christchurch has shown that…
Professor Jim Mann knighted for services to health
Newly-knighted Otago researcher Professor Jim Mann is calling on the Government to follow its world-leading anti-tobacco policies…
