keynote speakers bio's
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS BIOGRAPHIES
Sue Bagshaw
Sue Bagshaw works as a primary care doctor in adolescent health at a one stop community youth health centre for 10-25 year olds. She is a part time senior lecturer in adolescent health in the Department of Paediatrics at the Christchurch School of Medicine & Heath Sciences, and she is chairperson of the trust that runs the Collaborative (a research and training centre for youth health and development). She spent 20 years working for the Family Planning Association in Christchurch and ten years working part time on the Methadone programme in Christchurch, which is why she has interests in common with young people - sex, drugs and rock n roll! She is on the Council of New Zealand Aoteaora Adolescent Health and Development and the Council of the International Association for Adolescent Health as Immediate Past President. She especially enjoys her husband, the four grown up children and four grandchildren!!
Sally Casswell
Professor Sally Casswell is Director of the Centre for Social and Health Outcome Research and Evaluation (SHORE) at Massey University in Auckland. She holds a personal chair and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Her research interests are in social and public health policy, particularly in relation to alcohol, other drugs and, more recently, gambling. She has carried out research on the development and implementation of healthy public policy at the national and community level and in the evaluation of these initiatives. This has included work on measurement of health related behaviours and harms using general populations surveys, with a particular focus on social and health impacts.
Monique Faleafa
Dr Monique Faleafa is passionate and committed to making a difference in the Pacific mental health and addiction sector. Her dream is to achieve effective health services for Pacific people with a clinically and culturally competent workforce. Her interest in this field was ignited as a teenager working part-time for a central Auckland Pacific NGO with at risk Pacific youth her own age. Dr Faleafa later went on to management and then governance positions of that NGO and completed her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Auckland University. The 10 years spent working at grass roots level provided solid foundations for gaining an understanding into the issues that Pacific people face on a day to day basis. She is currently National Manager of Le Va, Aotearoa's new national Pacific mental health workforce development unit that sits within Te Pou. Monique is of Samoan descent whose father, Vui Steve Niumata, hails from Lano village on Savaii and Fusi village at Safata Samoa.
David Fergusson
For the last 30 years, Professor David Fergusson has been the principal investigator and executive director of the Christchurch Health and Development Study (CHDS). The CHDS is an internationally renowned longitudinal study of a birth cohort of 1,265 New Zealand children born in mid 1977. This cohort has now been studied from birth to the age of 20. Professor Fergusson is the author of over 200 scientific articles and books. His recent work has included research into childhood sexual and physical abuse; family violence; youth unemployment; teenage pregnancy; juvenile delinquency; substance abuse; and youth mental health. His major research interests are the design and analysis of correlational studies and the study of personal adjustment in adolescence. He is also actively involved in the development and evaluation of an early intervention project - Early Start - a home visitation programme designed to address the needs of at-risk families with young children. He is fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, honorary fellow of the New Zealand Psychological Society and honorary fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
Kate Grundy
Dr Kate Grundy is the clinical director of the Christchurch Hospital Palliative Care Service. She established this service in 1999 and works alongside two specialist nurses. She supervises palliative medicine trainees, the only site currently in the South Island with this capability. Her interests are primarily in education with a significant undergraduate teaching commitment both in the field of palliative medicine and ethics. She also teaches nursing and Allied Health staff as well as travelling throughout the South Island conducting lectures and workshops. Current areas of interest are Advance Care Planning, methadone as an analgesic, intra-spinal analgesia and motor neuron disease. Kate is the current president of the Australasian Chapter of Palliative Medicine, which is part of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. She is also the Chair of the Palliative Care Advisory Committee which was created within the cancer control framework, tasked with developing an umbrella organisation for palliative care within New Zealand. This project is ongoing. Kate lives on a 10 acre lifestyle block near Oxford, North Canterbury, with her husband and two daughters.
Charles Henderson
Since January 2002, Charles Henderson has managed the NZ National Exchange Programme (NEP) national office designated to oversee NEP operations to the pharmacy, alternate and dedicated outlets (approx 205), coordinate national collection and destruction duties and to liaise and disseminate information between stakeholders and service providers, both nationally and internationally. In 2004 he introduced the 141 (new-for-old) distribution system of needles and syringes nationally. He has also developed the proposal and framework for the first mobile based needle exchange service in New Zealand and this has been successfully trialled on the West Coast of the South Island. He is the primary investigator of the 2004 Blood Borne Virus Seroprevalence Survey of NZ Needle Exchange attendees and co-author of the 2003 NZ NEP Pharmacy Study. Charles is nearing completion of a University of Otago postgraduate Diploma in Public Health.
Piyabutr Nakaphiw
Mr Piyabutr Nakaphiw (Nong) is the manager of PSI, Thailand's "O-zone" drop-in centre for injecting drug users. Nong is a recovering drug addict himself and an experienced counsellor and trainer specialising in drug and HIV/AIDS related areas. As O-zone supervisor, Nong has responsibility for monitoring and implementing behaviour change programme activities in Bangkok. These responsibilities include administrative and programmatic aspects and staff management.
Richie Poulton
Professor Richie Poulton worked as a clinical psychologist in New Zealand and Australia before completing a PhD at UNSW in Sydney. He returned to New Zealand in 1995 to become deputy director, then director from 2000, of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study, having first worked on the study as an interviewer in 1985-86. In 2007 he led the establishment of the National Centre for Lifecourse Research, of which he is co-director. He has published 150+ scientific papers, with many appearing in leading international journals. His research interests include developmental psychopathology, gene-environment interplay in the prediction of complex disorders, and psychosocial determinants of physical health.
Alex Wodak
Dr Alex Wodak completed his medical studies and trained as a physician at St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, and then began research on liver disease due to alcohol while working in London. Since 1982, he has been the Director of the Alcohol and Drug Service, St. Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst. He has a major interest in prevention of HIV among injecting drug users, treatment of drug users, health aspects of prisons and drug policy reform. He helped establish the first needle syringe programme and the first medically supervised injecting centre in Australia. Dr. Wodak is the President of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation and was President of the International Harm Reduction Association from 1996 to 2004. He is a member of a number of state and national committees and has also often worked in developing countries to assist efforts to control HIV infection among injecting drug users.
Paraire Huata
Ko Takitimu te waka
Ko Tamatea Ariki Nui te tangata
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Tihei Kahungunu
Paraire teaches in a variety of learning institutions, more specifically tutoring and training in "Te Taketake - Diploma of Applied Addictions Studies" offered by the Moana House Training Institute. He also counsels, mentors and supervises at Purapura Whetu, a kaupapa Mâori initiative in mental health. Paraire is half way through his grandfather training, although he thinks his tutors are a bit one-eyed!
