In this guest lecture at the University of Canterbury I draw on the evaluation of the Māori Communities COVID-19 Fund that Dr Lindsey Te Ata o Tū MacDonald and I completed for Te Puni Kōkiri. The fund reduced the learning, psychological and compliance costs on whānau, and we found that this did not happen by…

The future of Māori health is here: The 2022 Aotearoa New Zealand health reforms (2022) In this 2022 comment for The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific, Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll, Sarah Lovell, Lindsey Te Ata o Tū MacDonald, Kaaren Mathias and I consider the launch of Te Aka Whai Ora, the Māori Health Authority, on 1…

Raising waka, and not just yachts (2020) In this 2020 chapter for the Public Service Association’s Progressive Thinking series, Amohia Boulton and I argue that COVID-19 exposed how underprepared Aotearoa, and the world, was to detect and respond to emerging infectious diseases. At the same time, it revealed how well placed and effective institutions in…