Confirmed Speakers
Kevin Hague Green Party MP
Kevin is one of the newest Green MPs and comes to Parliament directly from his work as the Chief Executive of the West Coast District Health Board. He was previously Executive Director, NZ AIDS Foundation.
Kevin has a broad range of experience in the health sector. He was a member of the National Health Committee (2001-05); He was Chair of the NZ Public Health Advisory Committee (2002-04); a Member of the Community Sector Task Force (2003); Chair of the West Coastal Pathway (since 2005), Chair of the Waiheke Special Needs Trust (1998-2003); Chair of the Oneroa Business Association (1996-1998); and Executive member of the Piritahi Marae Hauora trust (1997 – 1999). Kevin's achievements also include being in the team that stopped the 1985 All Black tour to South Africa, and being one of the leaders of the campaign for the 1993 Human Rights Act. Kevin brings significant practical skill, experience and resourcefulness combined with a personal passion.
Kevin was on the West Coast Tai Poutini Conservation Board from 2004-06. He was co-organiser of the 2007 ‘Sustainable Coast’, has been involved in the leadership of Mountain Bike NZ since 2001 and is a member of 'Cycling Advocates' Network'. Kevin was involved in environmental advocacy on Waiheke Island from 1994 to 2003.
He has a long and active history in advocating for gay rights. Kevin has extensive experience in Pakeha Treaty advocacy and gay rights advocacy, including HLR. Kevin is a campaigner for human rights and co-Chair and organiser of the 1989 NZ Gay and Lesbian Conference, and a co-organiser of the first Hero Party in 1991; Kevin has long term involvement in the anti-apartheid movement. He has been strategic adviser to many NGOs over the past 25 years.
Green Party Spokesperson on: Conservation, Health and Wellbeing (Health Services, Health Promotion, Hospitals, Mental Health), ACC, Community Economic Development, Rural Affairs, Biosecurity & Customs, Cycling & Active Transport, Rainbow Issues, Agriculture, Gambling, Sport & Recreation.
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James Baines
As a partner in firm of Taylor Baines & Associates, James Baines has been a practitioner of Social Impact Assessment (SIA) for more than 20 years, with practice experience mainly in New Zealand, but also in Malaysia and Thailand. His experience covers the application of SIA in many sectors of the economy - hydro-electricity, wind farms and high-voltage transmission lines, town centre developments and retailing, marine farming, gambling and casinos, port developments, landfill and waste water facilities, prisons and flood risk management. This experience also covers SIA applications at project, plan and policy levels.
During the 1990s and early 2000s, James adapted the Ottawa Charter framework for health promotion to applications in sustainable land management and the promotion of healthy homes. He has also devoted considerable attention to incorporating a social well being framework into his natural resource management applications of SIA. More recently, James has been interested in understanding and promoting integration between different streams of impact assessment.
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Mary Mahoney PhD, MSci, MEd, BEd
Mary works for the University of Gloucestershire as the Director of Nexus, a multi-institution partnership focusing on the development of vocational higher education as part of the broader regeneration of the City of Gloucester. In addition to this she pursues her research and consultancy activities linked to HIA through: a Readership in Public Health Policy within the university contributing to postgraduate teaching and research in the Faculty of Sport, Health and Social Care; contributing to the Department of Health Social Science, Monash University, Melbourne contributing to HIA research and teaching activities and co-facilitating their Short Course in July 2010 and, prior to this, holding an honorary appointment in the Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences, Deakin University (2007 – 09) delivering their Masters level unit in health and social impact assessment. She is currently providing technical input to WHO on training and capacity building in health equity in HIA. She has served on the Scientific Committee for the International HIA conferences for several years , has facilitated conferences, workshops and training programmes on HIA and Equity-focused HIA at all levels of government in Australia, New Zealand, Turkey and England and has an extensive publication profile.
Prior to moving to England in 2006, she established the HIA Research Unit at Deakin University which focused on the development of HIA at national, state and local government levels in Australia and worked with colleagues in New Zealand on the positioning of HIA within government. She secured extensive funding for research and consultancy in HIA including funding to develop the first equity-focused HIA guidelines in partnership with colleagues from the Universities of NSW and Newcastle.
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Decharut Sukkumnoed
Dr. Decharut Sukkumnoed is a lecturer in the Faculty of Economics, Kasesart University, Thailand, and the manager of Thailand Healthy Public Policy Foundation. He has been the main coordinator for HIA development in Thailand, since 2001. He is now the member of National HIA Commission, and is on the secretariat of the National Reform Commission.
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Ms Carmel Williams
Ms Carmel Williams is the Manager of the Health in All Policies initiative in South Australia Health and oversees the development, implementation and evaluation of the initiative across government in South Australia. She was catalyst for Professor Ilona Kickbusch during her residency as 2007 Adelaide Thinker in Residence, and continues to work closely with her on the Health in All Policies initiative.
Ms Williams has a long and extensive experience in health promotion and public health where she has specialised in working across sectors both within and outside of government. Within this work she has taken a particular focus on the social determinants of health and equity. She has qualifications in education and public health. In 2008 Ms Williams was awarded the Leadership for Health Promotion Award by the Australian Health Promotion Association SA Branch, partly in recognition for her role as convener of the 2007 National Australian Health Promotion Association Conference.
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Ben Harris-Roxas
Ben Harris-Roxas has worked on HIA since 2003, and in that time has been involved in more than 20 HIAs and trained more than 400 people. He is the author or co-author of 13 articles related to HIA and coordinates a Masters-level course on HIA. He created the HIA Connect website and the HIA Blog, facilitates the Asia Pacific HIA email list, and edits the IAIA Health Section Newsletter. With colleagues from the University of New South Wales, Ben led the organisation of the first Asia Pacific HIA Conference in 2007. He is part of a team from seven universities that has received Australian Research Council funding to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of HIAs conducted in Australia and New Zealand over the past five years.
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Fiona Cram
Fiona Cram is from Aotearoa New Zealand and has tribal connections with Ngāti Pahauwera. She is the mother of one son, has a PhD from the University of Otago (Social and Developmental Psychology), and has over 20 years research and evaluation experience. From 1998-2003 Fiona was a Senior Research Fellow in the International Research Institute for Māori and Indigenous Peoples (IRI), at the University of Auckland. Since mid-2003 Fiona has been Director of a research and evaluation company, Katoa Ltd. Fiona is currently involved in evaluations with Māori NGOs; and research on the Māori health workforce, and on measuring Māori collectives. She has also been training groups around the country in Whānau Ora Health Impact Assessment. Her other research interests include Māori health and wellness, organisational capacity building, and research and evaluation ethics. In her spare time she likes to find snow and snowboard.
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Henare Ngaera O’Keefe
Community Worker, Hastings District Councillor, and Justice of the Peace.
Henare is a prolific contributor to New Zealand, Hawke’s Bay and his local community of Flaxmere. Along with his dear wife Pam they have fostered over 200 children, 4 biological children and given inspirational talks to over 400 schools. A former Youth Justice Coordinator, books in homes advocate, and organiser of community action. In his political role he is a great advocate for HIA and regularly allows his local marae to host HIA workshops, and then he greets the recommendations of those HIA around the Council decision making table. His community work is widely recognised including leading a 4000-people-strong Hikoi against violence, running a regular free midnight BBQ, and advocating against a Corrections Facility in Flaxmere.
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Megan Tunks
- Ko Megan Tunks toku ingoa
- Ko Te Oariki te maunga
- Ko Motu te awa
- Ko Whitianga me Te Rere nga marae
- Ko Ngati Paekau, Ngati Ngahere me Ngati Patu oku hapu
- Ko Te Whanau-a-Apanui, me Whakatohea oku Iwi
- E rua aku tamariki, Ko Te Ikiwa o Rehua Soraya taku tamahine, me Ruameto Chris Hamiora taku tama
Megan has eighteen years experience of work in the Public Health Field. Her professional positions have included; Researcher, Strategist, Evaluator, Portfolio Manager, Maori Service Development Manager, Contractor, Associate Research Director, Health Research Council Maori Training Fellow, Workforce Development Project Manager, Project Co-ordinator. She is a Director to Procare’s Primary Network Auckland PHO – Primary Healthcare Organisation.
Megan is currently employed as a Kairangahau/Kairautaki – Strategist and Researcher to Hapai Te Hauora Tapui Ltd– Auckland Region Maori Public Health Provider. More recently, Megan has been involved with training workshops on Whanau Ora Health Impact Assessment (WOHIA), as well as Whanau Ora Health Impact Assessment on the Draft Auckland Regional Land Transport Strategy, the Manukau Built Form and Spatial Structure Plan and Wiri Built Form and Spatial Plan.
Other recent work includes the development of Whanau Centred and Maori Public Health Indicators, as well as a range of projects providing strategic Maori Public health advice on; research and evaluation, workforce development, and policy development to a range of key stakeholders including; Maori Health Providers and other Non Government Organisations, Territorial Local Authorities, the Ministry of Health, and District Health Boards.
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Robert Quigley
Director, Quigley and Watts Ltd
Co-Director, Health, Wellbeing and Equity Impact Assessment Research Unit, University of Otago.
Robert Quigley has worked in central government and NGO roles, and has contracted extensively with local government, central government and internationally. He specialises in assessing complex health and wellbeing issues and making them accessible for non-specialists.
Rob has a particular interest in influencing and informing decisions that affect community health and wellbeing via HIA; this has led to him working closely with key decision makers as one effective way of achieving this goal.
Rob has led HIAs in a variety of sectors including urban design, transport, education, housing, oil and gas, electricity and environment and has worked with local and central government agencies and private companies. His contracts and clients have included the World Health Organization (Geneva); National Health Service (London); Government of South Australia, Government of Samoa, the Ministry of Health New Zealand, New Zealand Transport Agency, Ministry of Education, Ministry for the Environment, Cancer Society, National Heart Foundation, University of Otago, and many others including at least nine different local government councils.
Rob's HIA experiences include:
- co-author of the HIA best practice guidelines released by the International Association for Impact Assessment.
- co-director of the HIA Research Unit at the University of Otago.
- the training of hundreds of people in how to do an HIA, in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.
- assisting the Government of South Australia in their successful Health in All Policies Approach which has been instigated by the Premier.
- developing guidance on HIA practice and evaluation.
- co-developing, training and doing Whanau Ora Health Impact Assessment – an indigenous-developed HIA guideline.
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