Our team in the news
April - December 2022
Pacific Research Fellowship winner excited to spread early heart check message | Stuff.co.nz
Heart Foundation 2022 Research Grants awarded | New Zealand Doctor (nzdoctor.co.nz)
Should You Get a Second Booster? | Newsroom
Second Covid-19 booster approved for vulnerable groups – Expert Reaction – Science Media Centre
System redesign needed to address clinical trial inequities, report finds | Stuff.co.nz
GPs worried about succession plan – Waatea News: Māori Radio Station
Dr Matire Harwood awarded medal for dedication to hauora Māori – Waatea News: Māori Radio Station
Brutal reality of Covid battle revealed by South Auckland GP (1news.co.nz)
Losing hope on the Covid frontlines | Q+A 2022 – YouTube
Stroke victims asked about care experience | Otago Daily Times Online News (odt.co.nz)
$188m Māori Health Authority boost ‘not enough’ – experts (1news.co.nz)
Hints at Budget spend on Māori health as inequities bite | RNZ News
Award-winning Māori GP says short-term solutions needed for burnt-out health workers | RNZ News
Hints at Budget spend on Māori health as inequities bite | RNZ News
Govt plan to boost healthcare workforce is ‘light at the end of the Covid tunnel’ | Stuff.co.nz
Initiative introduces Māori students to health sector employment options | RNZ News
Wait to see GP taking up to six weeks, College of GPs says | RNZ News
Kaupapa Māori provider facing unprecedented demand with lack of full-time staff | RNZ News
Māori nurses call for dedicated health workforce to be prioritised | RNZ News
March 2022
- As Māori Covid rate increases, calls for more to join impact study (1news.co.nz)
- Inequities increase in vaccination of pregnant women | New Zealand Doctor (nzdoctor.co.nz)
- Primary care fronts up to Omicron surge | New Zealand Doctor (nzdoctor.co.nz)
- Why NZ needs to go harder to stop drug-resistant bugs (newstalkzb.co.nz)
- Omicron taking a toll on GPs | New Zealand Doctor (nzdoctor.co.nz)
- Covid-19: Call for booster vaccine doses to be prioritised in south Auckland | Stuff.co.nz
February 2022
- Two years on from the first COVID case, New Zealand’s successful pandemic response still faces major challenges (theconversation.com)
- Dr Matire Harwood | COVID Kaikorero / NZ General Practitioner – Waatea News: Māori Radio Station
- Covid-19: Community isolation scheme needs to be overhauled, study says | Stuff.co.nz
- Covid-19: Children and young people dominating south Auckland Omicron cases | New Zealand Doctor (nzdoctor.co.nz)
- Marae health centre stepped in to provide care during Delta | RNZ
- Homework good option for kids in Omicron wave – Waatea News: Māori Radio Station
- Landmark intensive care study shows significant Disparities in health outcomes for Māori patients | New Zealand Doctor (nzdoctor.co.nz)
- Bracing For Omicron, Govt Shores Up NZ’s Immunity Wall | Newsroom
- The New Zealand Medical Journal is out on Friday | New Zealand Doctor (nzdoctor.co.nz)
January 2022
- Dr Karen Brewer | Speech-language therapist and kaupapa Maori researcher – Waatea News: Māori Radio Station
- Kaupapa Māori Tool for Stroke Survivors to Communicate Again (tehiku.nz)
- Covid 19 Delta outbreak: Health expert panel to answer all your questions about child vaccines – NZ Herald
- Covid-19: South Auckland GPs brace for surge in Omicron cases | Stuff.co.nz
- Coronavirus: Slow start to vaccine drive and frontline staff fatigue impacting booster rollout for Māori – health experts | Newshub
- The minister said what! Sector reacts to reform news | New Zealand Doctor (nzdoctor.co.nz)
- ‘We’re here if you need us’: Manurewa marae gets South Auckland boosted | RNZ News
- Explained: Just how protected is New Zealand from Omicron? – NZ Herald
2021
- 2021 Te Kōpūnui Māori Research Award: A kaupapa Māori intervention shifting the boundaries of speech-language therapy (royalsociety.org.nz)
- Dr Matire Harwood | Te Roopuu Whakakaupapa Urutā – Waatea News: Māori Radio Station
- Whānau isolating in overcrowded homes need more than a phone call, clinic says | Stuff.co.nz
- Covid-positive cases waiting days to hear from Health Ministry – Auckland GP | RNZ News
- Auckland man with Covid-19 spent six days isolating in his car | RNZ News
- Covid-19: Doctors worried about patients isolating at home after man dies | Stuff.co.nz
- Covid-19: 48,000 more vaccinations needed across Auckland to get Māori to 90 per cent | Stuff.co.nz
- Paakiwaha Interview | Matire Harwood – Waatea News: Māori Radio Station
- We built a model that shows how small rule changes can fuel delta’s spread | The Spinoff
- What Do The Latest Covid Trends Mean? – Expert Q&A | Scoop News
- Coronavirus: Kiwis reminded to keep to alert level rules even when vaccinated | Newshub
- Covid 19 Delta outbreak: What you need to know about kids and vaccines – NZ Herald
- Epidemiologist: Dangers in basing Covid models on other countries (newstalkzb.co.nz)
- Covid 19 Delta outbreak: Call for mass school vaccinations to counter ‘doom and gloom’ modelling – NZ Herald
- Covid 19 Delta outbreak: Potentially six weeks before Māori hit 90% vaccination in Auckland – GP – NZ Herald
- Covid-19: Carrots, sticks … experts on how we hit the 90 per cent double jab target | Stuff.co.nz
- Covid-19: Auckland DHBs pay GPs to call hesitant patients as vaccination rate drops | Stuff.co.nz
- Kaupapa Māori research project reveals structural racism in prostate cancer care | Stuff.co.nz
- Fully vaccinated Aucklanders should be rewarded, some experts say | RNZ News
- Covid 19 Delta outbreak: Path to freedom – how many more vaccination jabs Auckland needs and likely timeframe – NZ Herald
- Covid-19: Vaxathon follow-up events on the way to offer second Pfizer doses | Stuff.co.nz
- Covid-19: Traffic light system needs Te Tiriti foundation to succeed, experts warn | Stuff.co.nz
- Covid 19 Delta outbreak: Path to freedom – how many more vaccination jabs Auckland needs and likely timeframe – NZ Herald
- Covid-19: Vaccine vans, Che Fu and King Kapisi gig in south Auckland Labour Day jab drive | Stuff.co.nz
- FIX: A who’s who of health reformers | New Zealand Doctor (nzdoctor.co.nz)
- Pasifika health experts call for more testing as Auckland drops alert levels | RNZ News
- Auckland vaccine programme director hopes for record-breaking week | RNZ News
- Using Oxygen in suspected ACS – with Professor Bridget Dicker (podbean.com)
- Health system shake-up: Vulnerable communities ‘might get lost in the shuffle’ | Stuff.co.nz
- Our hearts are in our hands – The University of Auckland
- Dr Matire Harwood wants racism addressed in health system | Stuff.co.nz
- Health experts on health sector overhaul: ‘Devil in the detail but everybody is feeling positive’ | RNZ News
- Health system shake-up: Vulnerable communities ‘might get lost in the shuffle’ | Stuff.co.nz
- Health advocates cautiously optimistic over Government’s plan to scrap DHBs (1news.co.nz)
- Covid 19 coronavirus: What you need to know about vaccines and herd immunity – NZ Herald
- Calls for urgency to address ‘avalanche of diabetes’ among Pacific community | Stuff.co.nz
2020
- Doctors Still Denying ‘Undeniable’ Systemic Racism | Newsroom
- Dr Matire Harwood talks achieving health equity in Aotearoa (mindfood.com)
- Racism and the journal – The outrage, the crossed wires, the explanations | New Zealand Doctor (nzdoctor.co.nz)
- Why being a Pākehā doctor isn’t enough – E-Tangata
- Research shows navigators effective for Maori health – Waatea News: Māori Radio Station