Health Promotion Forum of New Zealand – Runanga Whakapiki Ake i te Hauora o Aotearoa (HPF) – is the umbrella organisation for all those who identify health promotion as part of their work. Founded on the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Ottawa Charter, our non-profit organisation provides information, training and resources to build the workforce and health promotion leadership.
The membership of the Forum is made up of over 100 organisations committed to improving the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders. In addition over 3,000 individuals with an interest in health promotion subscribe to our newsletter and information.
As well as its leading work in Aotearoa New Zealand, HPF is increasingly being recognised as a health promotion leader at regional and international level. Our team is connecting more and more with other international leaders. We share health promotion expertise and best practice to advance socio-economic wellbeing and other outcomes at all levels.
The Forum co-hosts the South West Pacific Regional Office of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), and is a member of the Global Executive Board of IUHPE.
Read our constitution.
HPF is a member of the International Union of Health Promotion and Education and the Sustainable Business Network.
HPF participate in the Te Wana Quality Improvement Programme, ensuring continuous quality management. Quality standards are developed by the Quality Improvement Council – an Australasian accreditation body.
History
Passionate about health promotion: the Health Promotion Forum 10 years on and growing
HPF - Looking back; looking forward
We work in a challenging socio-economic environment and the impact on our resources and capacity is inevitable. Like many of our members, HPF has needed to adapt to these changing times. We aim, however, to remain sustainable; maintaining health promotion as one of the solutions to health inequity and upholding hauora as everyone’s right.
Programme boosts rangatahi wellbeing
December 10, 2020A health and wellbeing programme designed to support rangatahi to enhance their hauora and develop a sense of identity and belonging was successfully ...
Being a Māori health promoter, more than just a job
October 15, 2020Now more than ever we are able to put a spotlight on tough topics and hold people accountable so we can create a fairer society for everyone, writes H...
Reflecting on a decade with HPF
October 15, 2020The significant contribution that Trevor Simpson has made over the past decade to HPF, Maori health promotion and the world was reflected on at a fare...
Celebrating Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori
September 15, 2020“Ko taku reo tāku ohooho, ko taku reo tāku māpihi mauria.” Koinei tētahi o ngā whakataukī ka pēnei mai te Māori. E ai ki ngā korero, ki nga whakaaro h...
New action plan to boost Māori health and wellbeing
August 4, 2020A new action plan that will help to achieve better health outcomes for Māori has been welcomed by HPF. Whakamaua: Māori Health Action Plan 2020-2025 i...
Mātauranga Framework positive
July 28, 2020The launch by the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) of its Mātauranga Framework is a positive step towards recognising the role of indigenous k...
Health promoter isolated in Matakohe
April 20, 2020When HPF’s Executive Director, Trevor Simpson and his wife Vanessa decided to make a radical change to their career-based lifestyle, sell up and take ...
Tweet inspires anti-racism event
March 6, 2020An inaugural anti-racism, Te Tiriti o Waitangi and decolonisation online and offline open-access event to be held this month was inspired by a tweet f...
Waitangi Day a time for reflection
February 4, 2020Waitangi Day on Thursday, February 6 marks 180 years since the signing of Te Tiriti O Waitangi (Treaty of Waitangi) and is a time to reflect on our na...
Health Promotion and Organisational Transformation- a formal training approach
December 5, 2019HPF’s Executive Director Trevor Simpson discusses the importance of organisation-wide training The success of an organisation often rests on the skill...
Stats show speaking Te Reo protects against alcohol harm
November 1, 2019A report into hazardous drinking in New Zealand reveals that Māori who drink alcohol and live in deprived circumstances are less likely to have a harm...
Māori leaders recognised
October 23, 2019HPF commends a new initiative by Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM) New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence to celebrate and recognise the caree...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
He Rīpoata Karahipi – HPF Scholarship Report
September 13, 2018I tēnei tau ka tū tētehi o ngā mahi whakapakari o HPF ki Tāmaki Makaurau, arā , ko tō mātou Certificate of Achievement in Introducing Health Promotion...
Kiwis urged to celebrate Te Reo Maori
September 11, 2018All New Zealanders are being encouraged to take part in Māori Language Week which launched on September 10. Nau mai ki Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori – ...
History of mana wahine celebrated
August 29, 2018As Emma Frost walked out of Te Papa where she had just shared about her tupuna Meri Te Tai Mangakahia she felt cleansed and reinvigorated. “Moving out...
Adrian Te Patu: adapting to the environment
May 23, 2017Health Promotion Forum is privileged to have had a brief catch-up with Adrian Te Patu. Adrian is a past board member of our organisation and is curren...
Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a ‘professional imperative’
September 13, 2016A new paper, published in UK publication Ethnicity and Health in June, indicates we have a way to go to address ongoing inequities for Māori and other...
Te Kōpae Piripono: early childhood education based whanau intervention
March 27, 2016Te Kōpae Piripono is a successful whānau intervention based in Taranaki. Te Pou Tiringa and the National Centre for Lifecourse Research, University o...
Māori under-represented in the medical workforce: survey
February 3, 2016According to the New Zealand Medical Workforce survey released in late January 2016, Māori are under-represented in the medical workforce, when compar...
Towards Health Equity – putting tools in the kete
October 13, 2015In October 2015 HPF’s Deputy Executive Director Trevor Simpson and Senior Health Strategist, Dr Viliami Puloka together presented to a multi-sec...
Health promotion is at the heart of Hapai te Hauora
October 7, 2015Zoe Aroha Martin-Hawke is National Manager – Te Ara Ha Ora: Māori Tobacco Control Leadership service at Hapai Te Hauora. Jo Lawrence-King find...
Health Promotion: Enlightenment, engagement and empowerment
September 13, 2015Health Promotion: Enlightenment, engagement and empowerment View the powerpoint presentations from a workshop with Professor Sir Mason Durie on 17 Sep...
Indigenous health gap – social determinants key
July 29, 2015A feature article on an Australian TV website has highlighted the issue of the indigenous health gap; an issue that echoes the situation of Māori here...
Māori Health Promotion: five important facets for building the discipline
May 7, 2015Five key elements, outlined in a 2010 paper by Dr Mihi Ratima remain imperative to the success of Māori health promotion today. Commiss...
Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Health Promotion – a partnership in progress.
April 21, 2015By celebrating and realising indigenous Māori elements of te Tiriti health promotion, HPF and its members are striving to be at the cutt...
Working with communities to participate in the submission process
January 12, 2015This guide helps communities have a voice in the submission process. Produced by Regional Public Health, it gives advice and tips for health promoters...
Improving Access to Primary Care for Māori and Pacific Peoples
December 30, 2014This literature review, commissioned by the former Health Funding Authority in December 2000, examined the most relevant literature on strategies that...
“Mauri ora!” Strong endorsement of population health from Tariana Turia
July 15, 2014Outgoing co-leader of the Maori Party, the Honourable Tariana Turia, signalled her support for public health and health promotion this week. In a hea...
Chatham Islands provide excellent health promotion model
April 2, 2014In a recent Health and Social Needs report prepared by Litmus Ltd for the Ministry of Health the Chatham Island community was described as havi...
Hauora: one of the motivators behind Te Tiriti o Waitangi
February 6, 2014Every year Waitangi Day provides a useful basis to reflect on our nationhood and the common historical grounds that brought us all together. At the sa...
Whanau Ora: a model for people around the world
February 4, 2014A speech to parliament on Wednesday 28 January 2014 by Minister Tariana Turia has highlighted the groundswell of support for Whanau Ora as a mo...
HPF making its mark on world health agendas
December 18, 2013HPF – and New Zealand – is making a significant contribution to world health agendas. Its most recent input was to the scientific ...
Reducing Inequality: A Strategy for a Cause
December 14, 2013Bruce Jesson Lecture 2013 “Assertive, if not aggressive approach” called for by the Right Hon Sir Edmund Thomas Retired Court Appe...
Unlawful Uruwera raids as a health promotion issue
November 17, 2013Why are the raids of Ruātoki in Uruwera a health promotion issue? What can our profession do to help all those involved, as well as prevent suc...
Mental health workforce: training in Māori health models needed
November 12, 2013Māori mental health patients are twice as likely as non-Māori to be put into seclusion. Workforce development has been identified as on...
Maori public health leaders agree three areas for action
October 15, 2013Three key project areas were agreed at a recent hui taumata (summit) of Māori Public Health Leaders at Te Ohāki Marae in Huntly. The three agre...
New Zealand health promotion held up as international best practice
September 30, 2013Health promotion programmes in Aotearoa New Zealand were held up as models of best practice in August at the annual conference of the world’s most hig...
Inquiry into the determinants of wellbeing for tamariki Māori
June 18, 2013Inquiry into the determinants of wellbeing for tamariki Māori. A report, issued in December 2013 by the Māori Affairs Committee, ...
He Mara Kai (the food garden)
September 13, 2011He Mara Kai (the food garden) is an initiative focusing on good nutrition and physical activity by supporting Kohanga Reo (Māori speaking early childh...
Te Pae Mahutonga: Mason Durie
January 1, 2011[pdf-embedder url=”http://hauora.info/hauora/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/maori_health_model_tepaemahutonga.pdf”] Te Pae Mahut...
Te Wheke: Rose Pere
January 1, 2011Another model of Māori health is based on Te Wheke, the octopus and the eight tentacles that collectively contribute to waiora or total wellbeing. Vie...
Te Whare Tapa Whā: Mason Durie
January 1, 2011The four cornerstones (or sides) of Māori health are whānau (family health) tinana (physical health) hinengaro (mental health) and wairua (spiritual h...
Te Tiriti o Waitangi
October 25, 2010Te Tiriti o Waitangi has been identified as the founding document of Aotearoa and the key to health promotion in this country.
TUHANZ (Treaty Understanding of Hauora in Aotearoa New Zealand)
September 13, 2010This essential document, produced by HPF in 2002, provides understanding of the application of te Tiriti o Waitangi in health promotion practice in Ao...
Māori health promotion – a comprehensive definiton and strategic considerations
September 13, 2010The purpose of this paper is to provide a definition of Māori health promotion and to discuss Māori health promotion strategic issues to inform practi...
TUHA-NZ
June 9, 2010TUHA-NZ is a framework developed in 2000 to assist health promoters to apply Treaty based thinking and planning to their health promotion practice.
Māori health promotion – a comprehensive definition and strategic considerations
February 11, 2010Published in 2010, this paper provides a definition of Māori health promotion and discusses Māori health promotion strategic issues to inform practice...
General comment on indigenous children and their rights under the Convention
January 13, 2009On Friday 30 January 2009 the Committee adopted the General Comment on Indigenous Child Rights. This Comment urges State Parties to adopt a rights-bas...