L E A D E R S H I P   F O R   M A O R I  
I N   P U B L I C   H E A L T H
The Leadership for Maori in public health programme aims to build the capacity and capability of existing and potential Māori leaders.  Over the next eighteen months, the leadership programme will be available on a regional basis throughout. 
 

H E A L T H   P R O M O T I O N  
S H O R T   C O U R S E S - O N L Y  3  P L A C E S   L E F T   
Certificate of Achievement in Introducing Health Promotion (health promotion short course).

Enrolments now open for Auckland, Wellington and Whanganui, September - November 2010.  Please contact Sal Stevens, HPF NZ on Tel: 09 531 5504 for further information.

The nation-wide course timetable for 2010 is now available.
 

S O C I A L   D E T E R M I N A N T S   O F   H E A L T H 

Auckland, 15 September 2010, Seminar organised by the Health Promotion Forum (HPF)

Dr Alison Blaiklock is the Executive Director of HPF. She is taking a series of workshops around the country on the WHO Commission and its report and recommendations. Alison is a public health physician and her special interests are the health of children and young people, the determinants of health, and health and human rights.

For more info:  www.hauora.co.nz or contact sal@hauora.co.nz
 
NB: Register early limited number of places


C U L T U R A L   A N D   L I N G U I S T I C   D I V E R S I T Y   (CALD)
Free online and face to face CALD training courses.
With growing ethnic diversity in the New Zealand population, health providers and practitioners are required to provide services that are responsive to the diverse cultural, linguistic and religious groups that they serve.  These training courses will help people develop cultural competence.  This is a new initiative developed for the Ministry of Health by the Waitemata District Health Board, Asian Health Support Services to enable public health workforce working within the Auckland region to access quality and accredited face to face and online cultural competency courses.

Visit www.caldresources.org.nz to check what FREE online and face to face CALD courses are available for public health, community health, primary health and secondary health practitioners working for services funded by WHDB, ADHB, CMDHB and those working for NDSA.

CALD on-line was the overall winner of  the WDHB Health Excellence awards and runner up for the workforce development and innovation award. The judges were unanimous and their comments were impressive. Read more about the judges endorsements.