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Draft International Pacific Health Conference Programme
Master of Ceremonies: Fa’anana Efeso Collins
Sunday, 2 November 2014: Welcome reception
6pm: Mix and mingle
Opening prayer: Reverend Robert Robati-Mani
Welcome by the hosts: Sir Robert Stewart, KNZM: Chair of the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) Board HRC Pacific Health Research Committee
Mix and mingle
Monday, 3 November 2014: Opening formalities
8am: Registration
9.15am: Opening plenary
Turou: Te Mapu O Te Enuamanu
Mihi Beau Haereroa
Opening prayer: Reverend Uesifili Unasa
Opening remarks:
Sir Robert Stewart, KNZM: Chair of the HRC Board
Lex Davidson: Acting Chief Executive of the HRC
Dr Palatasa Havea: HRC Pacific Health Research Committee
10.10am: Keynote speaker
Professor Sir Mason Durie, KNZM Principles for the advancement of Pasifika health in the 21st century
10.40am: Morning tea
Poster presentations will be displayed during the conference
1. Presenters: Mohammed Almasabi Institution: Monash University, Australia, and the Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia Is there a link between accreditation and mortality?
2. Presenter: Ms Kealoha Fox
Institution: Office of Hawai’ian Affairs, Hawai’i, USA Mana is our legacy! Mauli Ola is our destiny!
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3. Presenter: Dr Ofa Dewes Institution: The University of Auckland, New Zealand Parent-focused weight management programme for Pacific children
4. Presenter: May Vawer Institution: The Queen's Medical Center and the University of Hawai’i John A. Burns School of Medicine, Hawai’i, USA A community-based, culturally relevant physical activity and nutrition program to reduce Native Hawaiian cardiovascular health disparities: Youth baseline characteristics
5. Presenter: Professor Adrian A. Franke
Institution: University of Hawai’i Cancer Center, Hawai’i, USA Composition of alkaloids in saliva during betel chewing in Guam for the identification of biomarkers
6. Presenter: Dr May Okihiro
Institution: University of Hawai’i John A. Burns School of Medicine and Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, Hawai’i, USA Developing a stress and coping measure sensitive to experiences of low-income women in Hawai’i
11am–12.40pm:
Parallel sessions 1–3
Session 1: Innovation and Technology
Room: Rendezvous Ballroom Session Chair: Dr Palatasa Havea 1. Presenter: Dr John Sluyter
Institution: The University of Auckland, New Zealand Arterial waveform measures in the vitamin D assessment (ViDA) study: Relationships with Pacific ethnicity and modifiable factors
2. Presenter: Ms Mele A Look Institution: University of Hawai’i, School of Medicine, Department Native Hawaiian Health, Hawai’i, USA The impact of the cultural dance of hula on hypertension: Ola Hou I Ka Hula study
3. Presenter: Ms Losi Sa'ulilo Institution: AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand Pacific youth leaders providing their health solutions
4. Presenter: Dr Subramaniyam Gopalakrishnan Institution: Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Papua New Guinea Traditional medicine in Papua New Guinea and evaluation of radical scavenging, cytotoxic effect and antimicrobial activity of AgNPs from Medicinal plant Pittosporum f. Dryand
5. Presenter: Ms Amio Ikihele and Mary Roberts Institution: The University of Auckland, New Zealand Tapuaki: Pacific pregnancy and parenting innovation tools
Session 2: Partnership and Capacity Building
Room: Tasman Ballroom 1 Session Chair: Dr Vili Nosa 1. Presenter: Dr Malakai Ofanoa
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Institution: The University of Auckland, New Zealand The Tongan system model: A health promotion/community development model for Tongans living in urban areas in New Zealand
2. Presenter: Sana Daunauda
Institution: Kimi Hauora Wairau Marlborough Primary Health Organisation, New Zealand Vege-cation: A Pacific vegetable garden in your backyard with no smoking allowed
3. Presenter: Dr Pearl Anna Mcelfish Institution: The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences – Northwest, USA Novel methods for community assessments during traditional cultural events
4. Presenter: Ms Jennifer Elia Institution: University of Hawai’i John A. Burns School of Medicine, Hawai’i, USA Community engagement in a research project to investigate pregnancy intention and contraceptive use among Native Hawaiians
5. Presenter: Ms Natia Tucker Institution: Pasifika Injury Prevention Aukilana Incorporated, New Zealand Puataunofo come home safely – Pacific solutions for Pacific issues
Session 3: Partnership and Capacity Building
Room: Tasman Ballroom 2 Session Chair: Dr Debbie Ryan
1. Presenter: Puipui Dellaquilla Joshua Sua
Institution: The University of Otago, New Zealand Breaking the walls
2. Presenters: Dr Robin E.S. Miyamoto, Dr Kealoha Fox, and Dr Diane Paloma. Institution: Na Limahana o Lonopu ha – The Native Hawaiian Health Consortium, Hawai’i, USA Nā Limahana o Lonopūhā: Innovative public–private partnership for Native Hawaiian health equity
3. Presenter: Ms Gayle Lafaiali’i Institution: Alliance Health Plus (AH+), Auckland, New Zealand Rheumatic fever: Pacific engagement strategy
12.40pm: Lunch
1.30pm-3pm:
Parallel sessions 4–6
Session 4: Partnership and Capacity Building
Room: Rendezvous Ballroom Session Chair: Dr Josephine Herman 1. Presenter: Dr Maile Taualii
Institution: The University of Hawai’i, Hawai’i, USA Native Hawaiian and indigenous health public health degree: Innovation, social justice and responding to the needs
2. Presenter: Joey Cadiz
Institution: The University of Hawai’i, Hawai’i, USA Catching the waves of wellness: A traditional approach at health from the ocean that unites us
3. Presenter: Ms Malia Purdy
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Institution: The University of Hawai’i, Hawai’i, USA Kiko'u Ko'olau and indigenous public health: Cultivating wellness for the community
4. Presenter: Dr Maile Taualii
Institution: The University of Hawai’i, Hawai’i, USA Great research: Native Hawaiian views on biobanking
Session 5: Partnership and Capacity Building
Room: Tasman Ballroom 1 Session Chair: Dr Vili Nosa 1. Presenters: Dr Jane Chung-Do and Ms Mele Look
Institution: University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Hawai’i, USA Community engaged research: Recommendations from Pacific Islander communities
2. Presenter: Ms Hali R. Robinett
Institution: University of Hawai’i Cancer Center, Hawai’i, USA University of Guam/University of Hawai’i Cancer Center partnership: Building research capacity to reduce cancer health disparities in the western Pacific
3. Presenters: Aufa'i Apulu Ropeti Areta and Fepulea'i Dr Micah Van der Ryn
Institution: American Samoa Community College, American Samoa Implementing the Samoan Vā concept as methodology in intervention efforts to reduce childhood obesity in American Samoa
4. Presenter: Associate Professor Lukas Dreyer Institution: U-Kinetics/Universal College of Learning, Palmerston North, New Zealand Clinical exercise physiology in New Zealand – An innovative approach to the global health challenge
Session 6: Partnership and Capacity Building Room: Tasman Ballroom 2 Session Chair: Dr Gerhard Sundborn
1. Presenter: Ms Maiava Carmel Peteru
Pasefika wellbeing: Our uniqueness, our connections
2. Presenters: Dr Melissa Stoneham Institution: Curtin University, Perth, Australia If it bleeds, it leads – The portrayal of indigenous health issues in the media
3. Presenter: Dr Pearl Anna McElfish
Institution: The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences – Northwest, USA Promises broken and health disparities within Marshallese living in the US
3pm: Afternoon tea
3.10pm-4.10pm: Plenary
Panel presentation: The HRC and Ministry of Health partnership, Pacific-led research
Room: Rendezvous Ballroom Session Chair: Ms Hilda Fa’asalele 1. Presenter: Dr Jemaima Tiatia-Seath
Institution: The University of Auckland, New Zealand Suicide prevention for Tongan youth in New Zealand
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2. Presenter: Dr Ofa Dewes Institution: The University of Auckland, New Zealand Diabetes, Obesity and the Church (DOC): Implementing the New Zealand Weight Management Guidelines for Pacific Children, Young People and Adults.
3. Presenter: Dr Tupa’ilevaililigi Ridvan Tupa’i-Firestone Institution: Massey University – Wellington Campus, New Zealand Reflections from the ‘Chewing the facts on fat: What does that say about me!’ study
4. Presenter: Dr Gerhard Sundborn Institution: Le Va, Auckland, New Zealand Kelston beverages pilot study
4.15pm: Closing plenary/prayer
4.30pm Refreshments (cash bar) and nibbles
Tuesday, 4 November 2014
8.30am: Registration
9.15am: Opening plenary
Takalo: Fuata Uluola
Opening prayer: Reverend Ere Talagi-Ikitoelagi
Opening remarks: Dr Josephine Herman: HRC Pacific Health Research Committee
Keynote speaker
Professor Keawe’aimoku Kaholokula Pacific aspirations and determinants of health in a global context
10.15am: Morning tea
10.30am–12.40pm: Parallel sessions 7–9
Session 7: Behavioural Health
Room: Rendezvous Ballroom Session Chair: Professor Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop 1. Presenter: Dr Thomas A. Wills
Institution: University of Hawai’i Cancer Center, Hawai’i, USA Resilience factors for substance use among adolescents in Hawai’i: Effects of parental support and adolescent self-regulation
2. Presenter: Sam Manuela Institution: The University of Auckland, New Zealand Current research with the Pacific identity and wellbeing scale
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3. Presenter: Dr Sela Panapasa
Institution: The University of Michigan, USA Prevalence of obesity and obesity-related diseases among Samoan and Tongan adults in California
4. Presenter: Ms Moala Netina Latu Institution: Ministry of Health Tonga, Tonga Using strategic health communication in evidence-based and sustainable behaviour change programming in Tonga
5. Presenter: Dr Vili Nosa Institution: The University of Auckland, New Zealand Pacific men’s health and wellbeing: A case study of Niuean and Cook Islands men
6. Presenter: Glenn H. Manglona Institution: Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation, Northern Mariana Islands 30 day use of cigarettes/tobacco
Session 8: Mental Health
Room: Tasman Ballroom 1 Session Chair: Denise Kingi-‘Ulu’ave
1. Presenter: Byron Seiuli Institution: University of Waikato, New Zealand Ua tafea le tau’ofe: Examining the psychological and emotional cost of sustaining Samoan funeral culture and traditional customs in modern times
2. Presenter: Dr Joy K. L. Andrade
Institution: University of Hawai‘i at Ma noa, John A. Burns School of Medicine, USA Comorbidity of depression with heart disease among adults seen in emergency departments in a large Asian-American and Pacific Islander sample, 2000–2010
3. Presenter: Dr Gretchen Gavero
Institution: University of Hawai’i at Ma noa, John A. Burns School of Medicine, USA Comorbidity of bipolar disorder and heart disease among adults in Hawai’i
4. Presenter: Mrs Synthia Mairikura Dash Institution: The University of Auckland, School of Population Health, New Zealand Deliberate self-harm and Pacific peoples in New Zealand: Perspectives of key informants
5. Presenter: Dr Jemaima Tiatia-Seath and Ms Eliza Puna Organisation: The University of Auckland, Te Wananga o Waipapa – School of Maori Studies and Pacific Studies, New Zealand Key messages for Pacific suicide prevention
6. Presenter: Abba Fidow
Institution: Le Va, Auckland, New Zealand Pasifika suicide prevention programme
Session 9: Non-Communicable Diseases
Room: Tasman Ballroom 2 Session Chair: Dr John Hedson 1. Presenter: Professor Stephen T. McGarvey
Institution: Brown University, Rhode Island, USA Community health worker behavioral intervention to improve diabetes management in American
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Samoa
2. Presenters: Ms Heena Akbar, Ms Salome Swan, Ms Wynn TeKani and Ms Malotuto'atasi Vaimoso Semaia Institution: Pasifika Women’s Alliance Incorporated and Queensland University of Technology, Australia Mate ni kawa – Our parents have it, so will we! Using participatory approach to examine diabetes of Pasifika women
3. Presenter: Kay A. Strawder Institution: USA Department of Health and Human Services, Region IX, California, USA Promising solutions for non-communicable diseases affecting Pacific women and families
4. Presenter: Dr Corina Grey Organisation: The University of Auckland, New Zealand How do Pacific patients with acute coronary syndrome in New Zealand compare with other patients?
5. Presenters: Ms Kealoha Fox and Mr Keola Chan Institution: Office of Hawaiian Affairs and ‘Aha Kāne, Hawai’i, USA Kūkulu Ola: Native Hawaiian health and traditional Hawaiian healing
6. Presenter: Ms N. Kau'i Baumhofer Institution: Harvard School of Public Health, Massachusetts, USA Differences in leisure, transportation, and total walking by gender and educational attainment among Pacific Islanders and non-Pacific Islanders
12.40pm: Lunch
1.10pm–2.10pm: Parallel session 10
Session 10: Behavioural and Mental Health
Room: Rendezvous Ballroom Session Chair: Dr Tai Sopoaga 1. Presenter: Alexander Windsor Stevens
Institution: AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand An indigenous framework for Māori and Pacific men recovering from childhood sexual abuse in New Zealand
2. Presenter: Dr Maria Bellringer Institution: AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand It’s not gambling – That’s a Western definition: Increasing understanding of Pacific gambling behaviours in New Zealand
3. Presenter: Dr Sione Vaka Institution: Massey University, School of Nursing, Auckland, New Zealand A Tongan talanoa about mental illness
1.10pm–3pm: Parallel sessions 11–12
Session 11: Non-Communicable Diseases
Room: Tasman Ballroom 1 Session Chair: Dr Danny Areai 1. Presenter: Dr Josephine Herman
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Institution: The University of Auckland, New Zealand The role of alcohol in four-wheel motor vehicle crashes in Fiji
2. Presenter: Dr Iris Wainiqolo
Institution: The University of Auckland, New Zealand Association of kava with motor vehicle crashes and other injuries: A systematic review
3. Presenter: Wesley Lagolago Institution: AUT University, National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neuroscience, Auckland, New Zealand Increased incidence of traumatic brain injury in Pasifika: A profile of those people at risk
4. Presenter: Tainafi Lefono
Institution: AUT University, Centre for Person Centered Research, Auckland, New Zealand Information needs and cultural issues of importance for Pasifika peoples following a spinal cord injury
5. Presenter: Dr Andrew MacDonald Institution: Global Surgery Group, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Quantifying the burden of surgical conditions in the Pacific Islands: New estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
Session 12: Non-Communicable Diseases
Room: Tasman Ballroom 2 Session Chair: Mrs Eseta Finau 1. Presenter: Dr Sela Panapasa
Institution: University of Michigan, USA Cancer incidence rates among Native Hawaiians and Samoans in the United States, 2000–2010
2. Presenter: Ms Patricia Fifita Organisation: University of Hawai‘i at Ma noa, Hawai’i, USA Navigating female cancers, illness experience and health-seeking behavior in Tonga: Indigenous articulations of health, culture and modernity
3. Presenter: Ms Maree Ualesi Institution: The University of Auckland, New Zealand Stroke knowledge and management: Perspectives from New Zealand Samoans
4. Presenter: Ms Sepelini Seuala Institution: The University of Auckland, New Zealand Samoan-English bilingual performance on the Boston naming test and its Samoan adaptation
3pm: Working afternoon tea
3.05pm–3.40pm: Plenary
Presentation: The Ministry of Social Development, New Zealand
Room: Rendezvous Ballroom Session Chair: Professor Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop
Presenters: Mr Fa’amatuainu Pereira and Ms Everdina Fuli Ngā Vaka o Kāiga Tapu navigating the waters – A government co-ordinated approach informed by Pacific community leadership to prevent family violence
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Closing remarks
6.45pm: Conference dinner
Grace/dinner
Cultural performances
Closing prayer
8.30pm–10pm: Avaiki Band
WEDNESDAY, 5 NOVEMBER 2014 8.30am: Registrations
9.30am: Opening plenary
Turou: Enuamanu Society
Opening prayer: Reverend Robert Robati-Mani
Opening remarks: Dr Sela Panapasa: Conference Planning Committee/Assistant Research Scientist, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, USA
Keynote speakers panel
Chair: Dr Tai Sopoaga
Dr Dianne Sika-Paotonu Designer vaccines: A Pacific journey through the New Zealand science, health and research communities
Dr Yvette Paulino Areca (Betel) nut chewing and health implications in Micronesia
Ms Seini Jensen
Pacific evaluation for our Pasifika future
Dr El-Shadan Tautolo Pacific fathers: Cultivating our future leaders
10.40am: Morning tea
11am–1.20pm: Parallel sessions 13–14
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Session 13: Reproductive Health
Room: Tasman Ballroom 1 Session Chair: Dr Iris Wainiqolo 1. Presenter: Mr Lester Asugeni
Institution: Pacific Adventist University, Papua New Guinea Community leader’s attitudes toward male circumcision for HIV prevention in Papua New Guinea
2. Presenter: Dr Reni Soon
Institution: University of Hawai’i, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Hawai’i, USA Understanding pregnancy intention and contraceptive decision-making among Native Hawaiians: Key informant interviews
3. Presenter: Ms Radilaite Delaibatiki Institution: The University of Otago, New Zealand Family planning use among Itaukei Fijian women in New Zealand and Fiji
4. Presenter: Ms Marianna Churchward Institution: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Pregnancy planning and contraceptive use among first time Samoan mothers living in New Zealand: We just had unprotected sex, I’m pregnant, it was a big shock
5. Presenter: Dr Karaponi Okesene-Gafa
Institution: The University of Auckland, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, New Zealand Knowledge and beliefs around nutrition and physical activity during pregnancy in women residing in a low-income area in Auckland, New Zealand
6. Presenters: Jacinta Fa’alili-Fidow and Mary Roberts Institution: The University of Auckland, TAHA Well Pacific Mother & Infant Service, New Zealand Tapuaki: Pacific pregnancy and parenting programme
7. Presenter: Professor Jane Koziol-McLain Institution: AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand Building the health response to violence against women in Pacific Island countries
Session 14: Child and Youth Health
Room: Tasman Ballroom 2 Session Chair: Dr Yvette C. Paulino 1. Presenter: Dr Nicola Hawley
Institution: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Infant feeding practices among American Samoan mothers: The American Samoa infant feeding study
2. Presenter: Dr Rachel Novotny Institution: University of Hawai’i at Ma noa, Hawai’i, USA Building a child BMI monitoring system for the US affiliated Pacific region: A model from the Hawai’i Children’s Healthy Living Program
3. Presenter: Dr May Okihiro Institution: University of Hawai’i, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Hawai’i, USA
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Rapid growth in early childhood predicts risk of increased adiposity and insulin resistance in Native Hawaiian and Samoan adolescents
4. Presenter: Dr Sela Panapasa
Institution: University of Michigan, USA Prevalence of health risk behaviours and mental health symptoms among Samoan and Tongan adolescents in California
5. Presenter: Ms Caroline Dickson Institution: AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand The perceptions of Pacific adolescent girls who have a physical disability, on their participation in physical activity
6. Presenters: Ms Joanna White and Ms Metua Bates Institution: Health Promotion Agency, New Zealand How can we intervene? Understanding risk factors for smoking uptake among Pacific year 10 students in New Zealand
7. Presenter: Dr Neti Tamarua Herman Institution: The University of Auckland, New Zealand Investing in our young people: Akaupokotuanga i tatou au mapu no te au tuatau ki mua
1.20pm: Lunch
1.50pm–3.20pm: Parallel sessions 15–16
Session 15: Child/Youth Health and Beyond the Pacific
Room: Tasman Ballroom 1 Session Chair: Dr Jemaima Tiatia-Seath 1. Presenter: Dr Deborah Goebert
Institution: University of Hawai’i, Department of Psychiatry, Hawai’i, USA Change pathways in indigenous and non-indigenous youth suicide
2. Presenter: Ms Ulrike Krauss
Institution: Mater KIMS, Brisbane Child and Youth Mental Health Service, Australia A pilot survey on the mental health needs of Samoan and Tongan adolescents
3. Presenter: Hameed Mumtaz Durrani
Institution: AJK Medical College – University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan Recognising the danger signs and health-seeking behaviour of mothers in childhood illness in Karachi, Pakistan
4. Presenter: Mohammad Shafiqul Islam
Institution: Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia Does quality of governance of NGOs contribute to quality of health service delivery in Bangladesh?
5. Presenter: Withaya Chanchai Institution: College of Public Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Prevalence and risk factors of musculoskeletal discomfort in Thailand hospital orderlies
Session 16: Environmental Health
Room: Tasman Ballroom 2 Session Chair: Ms Everdina Fuli
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1. Presenter: Dr Stephanie Mead Using the law to support collaboration between central and local government and improve environmental health
2. Presenter: Elizabeth Webb
Institution: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand The prevalence of dental caries and the fluorosis status of rural Ni-Van children continuously exposed to different fluoride concentrations by venting volcanoes
3.20pm: Afternoon tea
3.30pm: Closing plenary/prayer