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:
- Associate Professor Tupa’ilevaililigi Riz Firestone - Senior Research Fellow/Associate Dean Pacific, Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University, Wellington Campus, Wellington
- Ms Lemalu Alexa Masina
- Associate Professor Dianne Sika-Paotonu (chair) - Associate Dean Pacific/Senior Lecturer, University of Otago, Wellington
- Dr Bruce Su'a – Surgical Registrar, Starship Hospital, Auckland
- Dr Seini Taufa - 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 (co-opted member) – Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychological Medine, University of Auckland. Consultant Psychiatrist, Te Whatu Ora, Waikato, Hamilton
- Dr Radilaite Cammock (co-opted member) – Senior Lecturer, Department of Public Health, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland
- Associate Professor Gade Waqa (Co-opted member) – Head of C-POND (Pacific Research Centre for the Prevention of Obesity and NCD), Fiji National University, Suva, Fiji.
Ex officio members:
Ms Alice Chisnall-Kalouniviti (ex officio member) - Ministry of Health
Professor Sunny Collings (ex officio member) - HRC Chief Executive
Committee Secretary: Tolotea Lanumata - Portfolio lead, Pacific Health Research, HRC