Planetary health at a local level
December 5, 2019International health promotion leader Dr Trevor Hancock has helped put health on the agenda of thousands of cities and towns around the world. Dr Hanc...
Enhance health promotion knowledge online
August 21, 2019With HPF’s online courses you can study at your own pace and time and from anywhere in the world. If you are already working in the field of health pr...
Conference has lasting impact
July 11, 2019HPF’s Executive Director Sione Tu’itahi talks to Hauora about the outcomes, goals and lasting impact of the global Health Promotion Forum ...
Matariki a new framework for the future
July 11, 2019Twenty years after introducing “Te Pae Mahutonga” as a framework for health promotion in New Zealand at an HPF conference in 1999, Sir Mas...
Reflections from the Pacific
July 11, 2019Dr Viliami Puloka, HPF’s Pacific Strategist looks back at the amazing Pacific experience at IUHPE2019 in Rotorua. Fakafeta’I, malo lava, vinaka ...
Indigenous health promotion- guiding principles for planetary wellbeing
July 10, 2019HPF’s Deputy Executive Director Trevor Simpson, one of the principal architects of the Waiora Indigenous Statement reflects on its significance ...
Waiora – Indigenous Peoples’ Statement for Planetary Health and Sustainable Development
April 11, 2019This Statement from Indigenous participants in the 23 rd IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion (Rotorua, Aotearoa New Zealand) is a call on the h...
WAIORA: Promoting Planetary Health and Sustainable Development for All
April 11, 2019Rotorua Statement This Statement represents the collective voice of the social movement members, researchers, practitioners and policymakers who parti...
Indigenous leadership high on the agenda
November 29, 2018By Trevor Simpson In April next year Aotearoa New Zealand will welcome the global health promotion workforce to Rotorua City for what is arguably the ...
Speakers add to diverse line-up
July 16, 2018More speakers have been confirmed for the world conference on health promotion in Rotorua next year adding to the diverse line-up. They include respec...
Conference rare opportunity for NZ
July 12, 2018For the first time, the World Conference on Health Promotion will be held in New Zealand from April 7-11, 2019. Rotorua is the venue. The conference p...
Te Reo at conference is a world-first
May 17, 2018Having Te Reo Maori as one of the four official languages of the World Conference on Health Promotion in New Zealand next year is a world-first for Ma...
Call for abstracts
May 17, 2018Abstracts for the World Conference on Health Promotion that will be held in New Zealand next year must be in by August 31. Submissions for the 23rd In...
Top speakers confirmed for conference
May 17, 2018A top line-up of speakers from around the world and New Zealand has been confirmed for the world health promotion conference in Rotorua, New Zealand n...
Leaders pledge support for World Conference
June 29, 2016Leaders pledge support for World Conference The leaders of two highly regarded international bodies have signalled their support of the next World Hea...
Health Promotion Forum Wins Bid to Host World Conference
June 13, 2016Health Promotion Forum of New Zealand – Runanga Whakapiki Ake i te Hauora o Aotearoa (HPF) has been successful in its bid to host the next World Confe...
Prof John Raeburn: health promotion advocate
March 20, 2016Health Promotion Forum was fortunate to get some time with Emeritus Professor John Raeburn recently, to ask him about his more than 40 years as a heal...
NZ health promotion competencies recognised by global body
March 9, 2016The International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) has recently acknowledged the New Zealand Health Promotion Competencies as equivalen...
NZ Health Promotion Competencies recognised by global body
March 8, 2016The International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) has recently acknowledged the New Zealand Health Promotion Competencies as equivalen...
Zika virus has health promotion implications
February 17, 2016The cluster of Zika virus outbreaks and the associated neurological disorders has caused global concern; particularly in tropical and sub-tropical are...
Glowing review for new Michael Marmot book
October 17, 2015A glowing review by Henry March was published this month in UK paper NewStatesman of Michael Marmot’s book The Health Gap: the Challenge of an U...
What makes us healthy? Hint: It’s not health care
June 6, 2015University professor and physician Trevor Hancock has urged society to rethink the role and effectiveness of health care as a determinant of our healt...
Widespread acclaim for HPF information videos
March 19, 2015Two videos from the Health Promotion Forum of New Zealand (HPF) are receiving widespread praise – and calls for more – across the population hea...
Scottish politicians seek multi-agency approach
January 14, 2015Scottish MPs (MSPs) have called for a multi-agency approach to tackle inequalities. This follows the publication of the Report on Health Inequ...
Ottawa Charter
January 12, 2015The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion is a 1986 document produced by the World Health Organization. It was launched at the first international confe...
Bangkok charter
January 12, 2015The ‘Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a globalized world’ was agreed to by participants at the 6th Global Conference on Health Prom...
Alma-Ata Declaration
January 12, 2015The Declaration of Alma-Ata was adopted at the International Conference on Primary Health Care, Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata), currently in Kazakhstan, 6...
WHO Social Determinants of Health – report by the Secretariat
January 11, 2015Since the World Conference in 2011, the Secretariat has observed a considerable increase in the action on social determinants of health. Published in ...
Declaration of Alma-Ata
December 30, 2014The Alma-Ata Declaration is considered by many to be the founding framework for health promotion internationally. It came from an International Confe...