Webinar to focus on health promotion leadership in challenging times
Registrations are now open for our online workshop (webishop) ‘Health promotion leadership in times of global and 
national challenges’ to be held on June 12 from 11am to 12.30pm.
Our panel of speakers will include New Zealand health promotion leaders, who will be participating in the 25th International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) World Conference on Health Promotion in Abu Dhabi (UAE) from May 13-16.
They will join health promotion and public health professionals, partners, researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders from around the world to help shape health promotion initiatives and strategies.
This webishop is timely as Aotearoa and the world are facing an unprecedented polycrisis of geopolitical wars, economic crises, environmental catastrophes and pandemics.
The speakers will reflect on how their insights from the conference, as well as our Aotearoa experience, can contribute to enhancing the role and efficacy of health promotion in helping to tackle these unparalleled challenges that we face as a nation.
The first guest speaker joining our panel is Professor Louise Signal a Director of the Health Promotion and Policy Research Unit at the University of Otago, Wellington, and Co-Director of Te Rōpū Rangahau ō Te Kāhui Matepukupuku: Cancer Society Research Collaboration.
Prof Signal has been a member of the Department of Public Health for over 20 years and has previous experience working at central and local government in health promotion and community development.
Her research focuses on identifying and addressing environmental determinants of health and has a strong focus on equity for Māori, Pacific, and low-income communities.
Prof Signal was principal investigator on an innovative research project that studied the world children live in – Kids' Cam, which used automated cameras to record children's worlds.
We will be announcing the next speaker shortly.