Lay summary
Our national clinical trials network for mothers and babies health, the ON TRACK Network, has facilitated a national equity-driven prioritisation project to identify future clinical trials research that will most support the needs of Aotearoa. All of the top-ranked priorities relate specifically to the health and wellbeing of hapu wāhine Māori, their pēpi and whānau. We now plan to work with the newly developed Māori māmā and pēpi health research group, Te Aukume o Hine te Iwaiwa, and other Māori researchers and clinicians to progress these research questions into meaningful high-quality collaborative research proposals to be used in kaupapa Māori-led research. We will do this through a two-day workshop, ongoing support for the development of research teams and proposals and, two follow-up huis.