The World Economic Forum has announced Paris is opening the worlds largest urban rooftop farm supplying a tonne of food a day.The French government aims to cover approx 100 hectares of the city rooftops. Read more here ...
Te Pou o te Whakaaro Nui is a national centre of evidence-based workforce development for the mental health, addiction and disability sectors in New Zealand.Te Pou has published a summary of the 2019 population projection update from Statistics New Zealand. The DHB population profiles 2020-2030...
This online viewpoint by Donald M. Berwick that was recently published in the JAMA Network as it provides a wise oversight on the imperative for the health system to influence social determinants of health. The viewpoint reinforces the key elements as described by Marmot include conditions of birth and...
The Kore Hiakai Zero Hunger Collective is made up of a group of social service organisations who are working together to eliminate food insecurity in Aotearoa New Zealand. This collective supports the work of over 200 community food organisations across New Zealand, while also undertaking the...
Vishal Rishi is the director for The Asian Network Inc (TANI). When I came to New Zealand from India 17 years ago, I’d never heard of ‘public health’, but I managed to get a job as a part-time public health coordinator at The Asian Network Inc...
We have a unique opportunity for you to use your qualifications and experience in physical activity and/or nutrition and help improve the health of New Zealanders, sound like you? Keep reading. We are looking for a motivated Senior Advisor to join the Wellness, Nutrition and Physical...
Kai Town came about following a national Healthy Families focus on the kaupapa of kai. Armed with our learning from a previous Healthy Families Far North kai project in Kaikohe, a design challenge question was posed that was “How might we flood Kaitāia with an...
A team of NZ researchers have investigated the effects of food processing, such as milling, on the health benefits of whole grains, using a small trial of 28 adults with type 2 diabetes. Participants ate minimally-processed wholegrain foods including wholegrain oats and chunky grainy bread...
The 2020 Global Nutrition Report calls on governments, businesses and civil society to step up efforts to address malnutrition in all its forms and tackle injustices in food and health systems. This report looks beyond global and national patterns, revealing significant inequalities in nutrition outcomes within countries...
The first webinar presents the evidence from moving people from cars to active transport and explores how to have effective conversations about change in transport systems and the benefits of reducing car dependency as we shape more vibrant, sustainable and healthy communities....
