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• Lunchtime Webinar Series - Learning Together / Te Ako Tahi

  Asian and Ethnic Health Services (AEHS) are launching a new Lunchtime Learning Series initiative for 2025 - Learning Together / Te Ako Tahi. These monthly webinar-style sessions will begin in March and be available for all Health NZ staff and healthcare professionals. They are designed to provide valuable insights from cultural perspectives on key topics in healthcare, including:

  • Population health - Asian and ethnic communities
  • Mental health and wellbeing in Asian and ethnic communities
  • Migrant and former refugee health

   

  We invite you to join us for this valuable series and look forward to your participation! For your convenience, we use the same MS Teams' link (with the same ID and Passcode) for the whole series of webinar as follows: 

  Microsoft Teams : Join the meeting now

  Meeting ID: 411 134 447 620

  Passcode: TD6iw7tJ

   

  Please feel free to share this invitation with your colleagues and networks as this series presents a great opportunity to open dialogue and raise awareness about diverse cultural perspectives in healthcare practice.

   

  Click here to express your interest.
  For more information, please refer to the attached flyer or contact our team on 0800 88 88 30.

  To view the speakers' profiles, please click Speakers' Profiles

   

  More details will be updated periodically:

  Session	Date	Topic	Speaker	Facilitator
  1	19 March 2025, 12pm to 1pm	Preliminary look at Census 2023 data and health & wellbeing for Asian (and MELAA) communities in Aotearoa	Dr Lifeng Zhou	Grace Ryu
  2	14 April 2025, 12pm to 1pm	Dietetics and Nutrition through A Cultural Lens	Dr Zhuoshi Zhang	Dr Maggie Ma
  3	22 May 2025, 12pm to 1pm	Mental Health and Well-being from a Chinese Perspective (by a Malaysian Chinese & Psychiatrist in New Zealand)	Dr King Yee Yong	Kitty Ko
  4	June 2025, 12pm to 1pm	Mental Health and Wellbeing: A Korean Perspective	Dr Aram Kim	Dr Hiran Thabrew
  5	July 2025, 12pm to 1pm	Mental Health and Wellbeing: A Filipino Perspective	Dr Cheryl Buhay
  6	August 2025, 12pm to 1pm	What we know about the health of South Asian populations in Aotearoa New Zealand	Dr Suneela Mehta
  7	September 2025, 12pm to 1pm	Mental Health and Wellbeing: An Indian/South Asian Perspective (TBC)	Dr Sachin Jauhari
  8	October 2025, 12pm to 1pm	Mental Health and Wellbeing of Former Refugees (TBC)	Lynda Crisford       & Aklilu Hibtit	Jannine Nock
  9	November 2025, 12pm to 1pm	Mental Health and Wellbeing in Muslim Communities (TBC)	Janifa Bhamji
  10	4 December 2025, 12pm to 1pm	Mental Health and Wellbeing: An African Perspective	Genevieve Kayembe N.	Ayan Said

   

• Healthy Mother Healthy Future (HMHF) – Asian Perinatal Wellbeing Project 2022

  

   

  Waitematā DHB would like to introduce a new project 'Healthy Mother Healthy Future (HMHF) - Asian Perinatal Wellbeing Project' which is supported by the Ministry of Health (MoH) to provide very comprehensive info & support to Asian pregnant women and mothers with infants by improving their accessibility to relevant services for their emotional wellbeing.

   

  This project aims to improve Asian perinatal psychological wellbeing outcomes through collaborative efforts on strengthening the referral pathways, improving health literacy and emotional wellbeing awareness during the COVID19 pandemic period, and promoting early help-seeking and intervention by providing relevant workshops, counselling and practical social support.

   

  It would be appreciated if you can share this flyer via your network (incl. GPs, Maternity/Women's health service providers & community services etc.)

   

  Please see attachments - HMHF Flyer (in English, 中文, Hindi & 한국어) for the community.

• Asian Health Services’ COVID-19 Support

  

  Asian Health Services (AHS)’s iCare Health Information Line (0800 88 88 30) can support people who face barriers accessing NZ health services including getting the COVID-19 vaccination.

   

  Attached are 中文 & 한국어 posters for your info (and English version).

   

• Healthy Mother Healthy Future Programme Receives Award

   

  

   

  Grace Ryu, Operations Manager – Asian Health Services and Gill Graham, Team Manager - Maternal Mental Health represented Waitematā at the Mental Health Service (TheMHS) Conference 2023 in Adelaide earlier this month. Grace and Gill presented an overview of the Healthy Mother Healthy Future Asian Perinatal Mental Health Wellbeing Programme developed at Waitematā to improve the maternal mental health outcomes of women. The programme received a ‘Highly Commended’ award at the conference, which is reflective of the considerable work and collaboration that has gone into its development.

  Well done to Grace, Gill and the many other people at Waitematā and in our community who contributed to this achievement.

  

• 25 years of Asian Health Services

  

   

  We would like to invite all our values stakeholders and partners to celebrate 25 years of Asian Health Services providing high-quality, culturally appropriate health services in Waitematā district. Together, we have achieved outstanding success with many positive outcomes for Ethnic whānau and communities. We are setting up the foundations for the future nationalisation of service provision across the whole of Aotearoa New Zealand.

   

  Our vision is to achieve equity of access to health services to enhance health outcomes and experiences for Asian and Ethnic peoples across the motu.

   

  This is an event for Health New Zealand staff, and we would also love to have our valued stakeholders join virtually on Friday, 20th September 2024, from 11 am to 1 pm, via Teams.

   

  Prof. Lester Levy is a keynote speaker and Hon. Melissa Lee will be providing the opening address. Please find the attached flyer for further event details and click here to RSVP by 13 September 2024. We look forward to seeing you on the day!

   

• Japanese Health Workshop

   

  

   

  This workshop aims to promote and raise awareness about women's health in Japanese community. Through this workshop, we aim to equip all attendees with essential knowledge about women's health and introduce them to the cervical screening in Aotearoa New Zealand.

  This flyer is available in two languages - English, Japanese.