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Establishment and role
The Public Health Agency – Te Pou Hauora Tūmatanui was established on 1 July 2022 by the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act.
The Agency sits at the heart of the Ministry of Health and leads the Ministry’s work on public health and population health. This includes:
- policy
- strategy
- regulation
- intelligence
- surveillance
- monitoring.
We provide advice to Ministers on all public health matters.
Leadership in public health
The PHA provides public health leadership across the health and disability system and beyond.
We aim to influence the wider determinants of population health to enable people, their whānau and environments to be healthy and improve their wellbeing.
Public health intelligence and monitoring
Public health intelligence and monitoring helps New Zealanders live longer, healthier lives.
The Public Health Agency is developing a public health knowledge and surveillance system to integrate mātauranga Māori and tōfā loloto into evidence-based health policy.
Strategic Intent – Pou Whirinaki
Pou Whirinaki is the Public Health Agency’s founding document. It describes:
- our strategic intent (strategic direction and outcomes)
- our operating model (operational elements and core functions).
Work programme
The Public Health Agency’s work on public health includes:
- health emergency and pandemic preparedness
- global health, including the Polynesian Health Corridors programme
- Pacific health
- Māori health
- communicable diseases, including sexual health
- immunisation
- wider determinants of health, including housing and climate change
- smokefree regulation and policy
- vaping regulation and policy
- alcohol and drug policy and strategy
- healthy environments, including food and physical activity
- community water fluoridation.
Leadership
Deputy Director-General
- Dr Andrew Old
Senior leadership team
- Alma Matenga-Wilson, Manager of the Office of the Deputy Director-General
- Jane Chambers, Group Manager Public Health Policy and Regulation
- Kristie Carter, Group Manager Intelligence, Surveillance and Knowledge
- Tagaloa Dr Junior Ulu, Director Pacific Health
- Dr Nicholas Jones, Director of Public Health
- Michelle Mako, Director, Hauora Māori Tūmatanui
- Ross Bell, Group Manager, Public Health Strategy and Engagement
- Jason Jones, Director Emergency Management
- Salli Davidson, Group Manager Global Health
Public Health Advisory Committee secretariat
The Public Health Agency offers secretariat support to the Public Health Advisory Committee. The committee provides Ministers with independent, evidence-based public health advice.
