Key events for health and refugee research
A one-day symposium, Health Inequalities and Need: Pathways to Interventions, will be held in Wellington on 27 August.
The event is supported by the SPEaR Linkages programme and run by the Wellington School of Medicine and Health Services.
Its goal is to increase awareness and dissemination of thinking, research and action around ethnic and socio-economic health inequalities in New Zealand.
"It will provide a forum to discuss different approaches to intervening to reduce health inequalities and our understanding of their theoretical foundations and effectiveness," says organising committee member Anna Matheson.
The symposium will be chaired by Sir Paul Reeves, and will include a range of speakers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, both within and outside the health sector. For more information go to www.spear.govt.nz
The Linkages programme is also funding a National Symposium on Refugee Research. The event, thought to be the first of its kind in New Zealand, will be held in Auckland on 30 September-1 October.
"We hope to bring such researchers together for the first time to discuss methods and procedures for refugee research, and have sessions so refugee communities can learn how to set up their own research," says Waikato University Associate Professor, and co-organiser, Bernard Guerin.
"We want to keep New Zealand researchers in touch with each other, so we don't duplicate too much work and so we can use the skills of everyone.
The event is being organised by Bernard, along with Stephen Dunstan of the Immigration Service, and UNITEC lecturer Ruth Desouza.
