Alice Springs, September 2014
In September HPF Senior Health Promotion Strategist Karen Hicks represented Aotearoa New Zealand at the Australian Health Promotion Association Conference Equity at the Centre: Action on Social Determinants of Health in Alice Springs. Highlights from the event included

- Sharon Friel’s plenary session on politics, power and people
- Karen’s own presentation on Indigenous health promotion and workforce development
- Martin Laverty’s discussion of the economics of social justice
- Kerry Taylor’s findings about the power of language as a determinant of health
- TUHANZ (a Treaty Understanding of Hauora in Aotearoa New Zealand),
- the health promotion competencies and the
- health promotion society
- high staff turnover due to staff feeling ill equipped,
- poor access to healthcare
- language becoming a significant social determinant of health.