The Pacific Health Research Committee provides the HRC with advice about Pacific health research priorities and Pacific health research workforce development.
There is also a Pacific Assessing Committee that assesses applications for the HRC's Pacific Health Research Career Development Awards and Pacific Projects, and recommends to the HRC Council which applications to support. The chairs for the Pacific Assessing Committee are from the Pacific Health Research Committee.
Click here for the committee's Terms of Reference.
Committee members:
- Dr Seini Taufa (chair) - General Manager for Moana Connect, Auckland
- Associate Professor Donald Wilson - Associate Dean - Research and Director of the Fiji Institute of Pacific Health Research at the College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Fiji National University, Suva, Fiji
- Dr ‘Etuini Ma’u - Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychological Medine, University of Auckland. Consultant Psychiatrist, Te Whatu Ora, Waikato, Hamilton
- Dr Radilaite Cammock (deputy chair) - Senior Lecturer, Department of Public Health, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland
- Associate Professor Gade Waqa - Head of C-POND (Pacific Research Centre for the Prevention of Obesity and NCD), Fiji National University, Suva, Fiji
- Dr Jaye Moors – Scientist, Variant Bio, Seattle, Washington (based in Auckland)
- Dr Zaramasina Clark (co-opted member) - Senior Lecturer and HRC Pacific Emerging Research Leader Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington
- Dr Lana Perese (co-opted member) - Director and Auckland Manager, TIRIA, Auckland
- Dr Alana McCambridge (co-opted member) - Senior Lecturer, Person Centered Research Centre, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland
Ex officio members: Ms Alice Chisnall-Kalouniviti - Ministry of Health
HRC Chief Executive (ex officio member)
Committee Secretary: Tolotea Lanumata - Portfolio lead, Pacific Health Research, HRC