Ko te whāinga o tēnei raupapa Ako kia whakamārama atu me te matapaki i ngā tūāpapa ariā e whakarangatira ai Te Tiriti, te whakaehu a Te Moana Nui-Ā-Kiwa ki Aotearoa nei, te whakaahua me te whakakotahi mai i te hāpori, ā, ki te whakatōmene me pehea tātou e whakauru i ētahi āhuatanga ki roto i ngā mahi a Pūtahi Manawa.
Te whakaako me te akoako
He whāinga ki te tomo mai me ngā hāpori ki te waihanga i ngā rangahau whai tikanga, ka whakamihia te tokomaha o ngā mema ki te kore o te mātauranga, te pūkenga me te haumarutanga ahurea kia pēnei ai. He maha ngā marau kua wānangahia ki tēnei tukanga i tautohu, nā tētahi o te tīma OnE i whakaritea hei raupapa wānanga kua tapaina ki te ingoa Ako.
Ko te whāinga o te raupapa Ako, ki te whakamahuki me te kōrero mo ngā whakaaro aria e hāngai ana ki Te Tiriti, te whakaehu me ngā iwi o Te Moana-Nui-Ā-Kiwa i Aotearoa nei, te whakaahua me te kekeritanga hāpori, te tūhura me pēhea te whakauru i ā rātou ki roto i a mātou o Pūtahi Manawa. Ki raro iho ko te tuhinga whakarāpopoto o tēnei hōtaka.
Ko te raupapa tuatahi a Ako, i whakatakoto te tūāpapa o te māturanga kia mārama ki ngā ariā waiwai e hāngai ana ki Te Tiriti, te whakaehu o ngā iwi o Te Moana-Nui-Ā-Kiwa i Aotearoa nei, te whakaahua me te kekeritanga hāpori.
Ko te raupapa tuarau a Ako, i raro i te maru o ngā “tirohanga ā ao”, ka waihangatia ki tēnei tūāpapa mātauranga kia mārama ai ngā whakaaro rerekē me ngā kaupapa hauora, me te rangahau e āhei ana mātou te mahi me ngā hāpori mo ngā putanga whai tikanga
Ko ngā raupapatanga wānanga a Ako, kua tūwhera ki ngā mema katoa a Pūtahi Manawa mā te tae ā-tinana mai ki ngā tūngak, rānei, tirohanga ngā rekoata. Mēna ka hono mai koe ki Pūtahi Manawa ināianei, he āheinga mo ngā tūnga e haere mai ana me ngā tūnga kua hipa.
Na ka taea e koe te mahi rangahau mo koe!
He whai waahi mo nga umanga rangahau puta noa i te tini o nga waahi rangahau, puta noa i nga momo marautanga STEM, nga ahumahi me nga waahanga.
Sharon Shea
Sharon Shea is the owner/operator of a private-public sector management consulting company and has extensive experience in the health sector and broader Māori development/Whanau Ora and Whanau Resilience/Manawaroa.
Tākuta Allamanda Faatoese
Dr Faatoese is a Research Fellow at the Christchurch Heart Institute, University of Otago. Her research explores cardiovascular risk among indigenous and ethnic minority communities.
Tākuta Anna Rolleston
Dr Anna Rolleston is of Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi and NgātiPūkenga descent. She is managing director of The Centre for Health, which specialises in a kaupapa Māori primary care approach to long-term condition management. She is also a founding Co-director of Pūtahi Manawa | Healthy Hearts for Aotearoa NZ.
Rōpata Pāora
Rōpata Pāora (Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei) is the Pou Tikanga for Pūtahi Manawa | Healthy Hearts for Aotearoa NZ. He is a te reo Māori expert and the founder of the popular Tākina method of learning te reo.
Ahorangi Suzanne Pitama
Professor Pitama (Ngāti Kahungunu) is the Dean of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Christchurch. Her work focuses on addressing Māori health inequities through medical education, health research (including mental health and heart health).
Kataraina Davis
Kataraina Davis (Ngāti Whātua, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Hine) is Chief Advisor Māori at the National Heart Foundation and is and is extremely passionate about improving the health and wellbeing of whānau, hapü and iwi in Aotearoa.
Matua Joe Pihema
Matua Joe Pihema (Ngāti Whātua) started in April as Pūtahi Manawa’s new Pou Tikanga. He has worked in Māori education and the Cultural and Heritage sector for over 25 years and is a trustee for the Taumata-a-Iwi at the Auckland Museum and is a senior tikanga advisor, historian and cultural leader for Ngāti Whātua ki Tāmaki.
Tākuta Karaitiana Taiuru
Dr Karaitiana Taiuru, Director of Taiuru & Associates, is a leading authority and ethicist specialising in Māori rights with AI, Māori Data Sovereignty and Governance in emerging digital technologies and biological sciences.
Naomi Manu
Naomi (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitāne, Ngāti Raukawa) founded and established the nationally and internationally award winning Pūhoro STEMM Academy programme. She is co-founder of Auraki Group, who champion equitable solutions for Māori STEAM and help organisations to enhance outcomes for Māori
Jacinta Fa’alili-Fidow
Jacinta has extensive leadership and management experience in health research, public health and Pacific wellbeing in New Zealand. As a co-founder of Moana Connect, Jacinta empowers the importance of Pacific worldviews, and the prominence of self-determination in all Moana Research work, including evaluation, research and advocacy.