HUI A TAU 2011

On behalf of the Board of Te Ohu Rata o Aotearoa (Te ORA), and Secretariat staff, Conference Co-conveners, Doctors Sue Crengle and George Laking, warmly invite you to attend the annual Te ORA Hui a Tau and Scientific Conference. The Te ORA Conference is the Māori Medical Practitioner and Medical Student Association’s annual feature event.  Since 1998, Te ORA conferences have provided an opportunity to celebrate achievements in medical training, Māori health and promote Māori knowledgeand allow for information exchange.

Kua Takoto te Manuka

The theme for this year’s conference is “Kua takoto te Manuka - Lifting our Game”, which emerges from a phrase that our esteemed colleague and adviser Associate Professor Papaarangi Reid (Public Health Physician) brought to us in recent years. This phrase has inspired many throughout the health sector in Aotearoa and internationally to take a broader view, a more critical analysis and inform an active decolonisation position in our work.

Lifting our game may be a slightly humorous misapprehension of ‘lifting our gaze’ but we proclaim this theme to the assembly of Maori medical practitioners to publish their work with a clear aspiration for better health for our people, to raise our expectations of a just and safe health system for our people, and where possible to declaim a critical analysis of our own practice in improving health and healthcare for our people.

Date: 2 - 4 September 2011
Location: Makaurau Marae, Auckland (near the Auckland airport)

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