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ABOUTCommittee Profiles
Te ara ki te oranga mo te tangata: the pathway to good health Mrs Ngaire Whata is a Maori woman of Aotearoa, with tribal affliliations to Ngati Kahu (Northern Tribe), Tainui (Waikato Region) and Te Arawa, for which land she stands on today. Her background is from nursing, and is a former President now Executive and Life Member of National Council of Maori Nurses o Aotearoa, currently a Chairperson on Nga Ngaru Hauora (Health) of Aotearoa (Maori Health Provider Collective) and also a member of the Pacific Caucus of the UNPFII, member of a local Governance Health Board, Committee member of the Ministry of Health Maori Health Sponsorship. Currently she is the the Chief Executive Officer and Founding member of Korowai Aroha Health Centre base in Rotorua, New Zealand. Her life passion has been to find solutions and actions to help improve the health status of her people, but exclusively, therefore, she is known to challenge, negotiate, and meet face to face with the “powers that be” always endevouring to remove barriers at local, regional, national and international levels.
I am of Ngati-Hine, a hapu of Ngapuhi nui tonu. My father was pakeha of Irish and French descent. I am married to George Milne and we have had six children five of whom are living. We are a whanau committed to Te Reo Maori, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and Tikanga Maori. I am a Maori woman who believes in justice and the right of whanau Maori to their Reo, to love, to good health, to education and to their right to exist in a work environment of peace and harmony as determined by their culture. I live and work from my whare in Matawaia. My role as Kaiwhakahaere – Manager, Maori issues for the Health and Disability Commissioner, means that I travel throughout Aotearoa performing my tasks. This role has a dual focus in that it has an internal and external function. Internal and management functions include assisting the Commissioner to meet his obligations to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. I advise all divisions on the implementation of Treaty policy. I also provide expert advice on investigation files as well as facilitating the process for Maori participation in complaints, investigation and legal proceedings. As necessary, I carry out mediation between Maori complainants and providers. I provide training for all divisions within HDC on working with Maori, Mental health and facilitate training on Pacific Island issues. External function is to educate and promote the Code of Rights to Maori, to consumers and providers, to the Disability providers and consumers, to Pacific Island peoples. I also provide education programmes to Hospital and Health services and present the Code and Treaty issues at various conferences. I mostly do this through empowerment education methodology. I maintain the consumer focus for the Health and Disability Commissioner and assist in the process of making this legislation user friendly to the consumer, in particular, Maori. My professional background is in Psychopaedic nursing, psychiatric nursing, GP nurse receptionist, Certificated Teacher, Playcenter Supervisor, Kohanga Reo whanau development. I have worked in kaupapa Maori and in generic services in both Health and Education. My management experience comes from senior Maori manager in the Northland Area Health Board, Chairperson/manager Te Hauora o Te Taitokerau, Locality Projects Manager, for North Health – Regional Health Authority, Projects Manager Hauora Ngati Hine, Maori Provider development (North Health) for Taitokerau, and Cultural change in Mental Health services within Northland Mental Health services. I have a long and varied involvement in community development in both a paid and primarily voluntary capacity. I am currently on the Matawaia Marae Trustee, and am a member of the Taitokerau Legal Services committee. I was previously on the Taitokerau pilot community legal services committee that set up the Taitokerau community legal services. Since 1994 (per CV), I have been involved in the development of Health policy at both a regional and national level. This has primarily been in the area of Public Health, health promotion and mental health. I have also continued to contribute to education and in 1999 was seconded by the Ministry of Education for six weeks to assist in the writing of the Hauora Maori syllabus. I have provided advice, information and education on numerous projects being undertaken by Maori and Pakeha where these services have an impact on Maori oranga/wellness. I facilitate hui, consultation, and mediation and have conciliated many issues where parties need to enter into discussions to resolve issues. I also co-ordinate Maori Women’s wellness hui as I believe we need to be active in caring for women who carry such large loads for the people they represent. Currently, I have dedicated my own time to seeking solutions to address violence within the whanau. No reira Kia Ora Mai ano tatou.
Alayna Watene is the Chief Executive of Te Taiwhenua o Heretaunga (TToH), an Iwi Authority and an accredited provider of health, social and education services in Hastings. Alayna has been involved in Māori development for over 20 years, first management role being with Te Runanganui o Ngati Kahungunu as Mana Enterprise Manager. She has led TToH from its inception to where it is now the largest Māori NGO in Hawkes Bay with more than 140 staff providing over 33 different services to whānau. She has held and currently holds many strategic leadership roles with national and regional committees and organisations. Her financial management and entrepreneurial skills are demonstrated by the fact that TToH has improved its equity since 1995 by 7282%. In 2007 Alayna was the recipient of three Mana Māori Business Awards – Overall Excellence in Business, Best Employment Creation and Best Regional Business Ikaroa. Also in November 2008 Alayna was the recipient of the Hawke’s Bay Chamber of Commerce/Employers Manufacturers Association Business Person of the Year Award.
Eugene Revi
Former members
Former Chair of the ANIHKD Committee. Paul Robertson (Ngai Tahu, Kati Mamoe, Waitaha) became involved with the INIHKD after attending the inaugural meeting in Townsville in 2003. He has been a member of International Steering Committee since that time and has contributed to that development of the Aotearoa arm of the INIHKD, including the establishment the ANIHKD Trust in 2006. He is currently Chairperson of the Trust and was Co-convenor of the 3rd Biennial Meeting of the INIHKD in Rotorua in 2007. Paul is currently employed in a joint academic/clinical position, as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago, Christchurch and a Senior Clinical Psychologist at the Christchurch Community Alcohol and Drug Service. In 2004, along with Suzanne Pitama and Matea Gillies, he established MIHI, a Maori teaching and research Centre at the University of Otago, Christchurch. As well as teaching and contributing to a number of research projects (Maori health workforce development, addiction treatment for Maori, Hauora Maori curriculum development, Maori Community Heart Study) he continues to work as a clinician at (CADS). Paul has previously be been affiliated to the National Addiction Centre (NAC)(1997-2006) and worked as a clinical psychologist in the Department of Corrections, in both prison and community settings (1993-1997). He continues to have input in to a number of local, regional and national groups and committees in a variety of areas in health and justice.
Ms Rangi Pouwhane
Ms Caroline McKinney
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Rachel Brown – Ati Awa, Ngai Tahu 
Ngaire Whata – Ngati Kahu, Tainui, Te Arawa 
Moe Milne – Ngati-Hine 
Alayna Watene – Ngati Kahungunu 
Paul Robertson – Ngai Tahu, 
