Meet the Harmonised Research Group Professor Jane Koziol-Mclain Principal Investigator Jane is the Harmonised Lead Investigator, Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Trauma Research (CITR) and Professor of Nursing at AUT. Jane trained as a nurse and has worked in emergency departments, coronary critical care and in a community nurse-run clinic located in a women s refuge. She has been involved in research since 1988. In addition to the Harmonised study she is part of an international research collaborative investigating innovative online tools to improve the safety and wellbeing of women who experience abuse.this includes testing the New Zealand isafe tool. She also leads the evaluation of the Ministry of Health Violence Intervention Programme in DHBs and has consulted with UN agencies in supporting a health system response to family violence. Professor Denise Wilson Key Investigator Denise Wilson is of Ngāti Tahinga (Tainui) descent. She is Professor of Māori Health and the Director of Taupua Waiora Centre for Māori Health Research at AUT. Her research and publication activities are focused on Māori/indigenous health, family violence, cultural safety, and health (particularly Māori) and workforce development. Denise has been involved in family violence research, and at a national level in the development of the Ministry of Health s Violence Intervention Programme. She is currently a member of the Health Quality and Safety Commission s Family Violence Death Review Committee and Roopū Māori. She is a co-author of The People s Report for the Glenn Inquiry into child abuse and domestic violence. She is a Fellow of the College of Nurses Aotearoa (NZ) and Te Mata o te Tau (Academy of Māori Research & Scholarship), the Editor-in-Chief of Nursing Praxis in New Zealand, on the Editorial Board of Contemporary Nurse, and has been appointed to the Health Research Council s College of Experts. Dr Michael Roguski Key Investigator Michael established Kaitiaki Research and Evaluation in 2010. He has over 25- years evaluation and research experience. Much of this experience has focused on marginalised communities and sensitive topic evaluation and research. Through his work at Columbia University and Victoria University of Wellington, Michael is highly regarded as a leader in applied social research and evaluation. As the previous Director of the Crime and Justice Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, Michael has extensive crime and justice research experience. He has also a longstanding history of contract research with government, non-government organisations and a diverse range of international agencies. Michael has worked on a number of research and evaluation projects across the Pacific, including a recent five nation comparative study undertaken for the New Zealand Police PPDVP programme and work in Fiji for UNAIDS. Further, Michael has managed a number of successful longitudinal multi-site and multi-nation projects that have included the collection of qualitative and quantitative data sources. Michael is an acknowledged commentator on research and evaluation ethics. His most recent commentary was published in New Zealand Sociology in 2013. Michael has a PhD with a concentration in Criminology and Anthropology, a Master s in Psychology and a Bachelor s in Psychology and Education. He holds the position of Senior Research Fellow at Auckland University of Technology is an Honorary Research Associate of Victoria University of Wellington and is an Associate of Sheffield-Hallam University in the United Kingdom.
Dr Moana Eruera Key Investigator Moana has more than 25 years experience in social and community work including whānau violence prevention, child protection, indigenous training and framework development, youth restorative justice, Iwi projects and research. Her working career and vision has been spent committed to child safety and wellbeing, social work and social justice, human rights and the development of Māori and indigenous people. She currently shares the New Zealand National Principal Advisor Māori role in the office of the Chief Social Worker. She has published a range of articles and reports on indigenous social work and research. She is of Nagāpuhi, Ngāti Ruanui and Ngāti Rangiwewehi Iwi descent. Eldest of 3 sisters, Mother of 2 boys (and many other family members she cares for) and active member of her extended family tribe. Dr Shyamala Nada-Raja Key Investigator Shyamala is Senior Research Fellow and Principal Investigator for a series of longitudinal and intervention studies to reduce intentional injury, and is based at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Her research focuses on web-based interventions to reduce major risk factors for suicidality; and to increase safety behaviours, reduce violence, and improve mental health amongst abused women in the general population. Her longitudinal research is based on a programme of self-harm, suicidality, and positive development studies in the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study. Associate Professor Alain Vandal Education - PhD Statistics (Auckland) 1999, MA Applied Statistics (McGill) 1994 Current and previous positions Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, School of Public Health & Psychosocial Studies, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology (2010-present) Senior Biostatistician, Health Intelligence & Informatics, Ko Awatea, Counties Manukau District Health Board (2012-present) Senior Biostatistician, Centre for Clinical Research & effective practice, Auckland, New Zealand (2010-2012) Assistant (2000-2006), Associate (2006-2010) then Adjunct (2010-2014) Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, McGill University Project Director, Centre d'épidémiologie clinique et de recherche en santé des populations, Institut Lady Davis, Montréal, Québec (Canada) (2000-2010) Research Fellow in Biostatistics, Clinical Trials Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Auckland (1999-2000) Biostatistician, Module de prévention et contrôle VIH-SIDA, Institut de recherche de l'hôpital général de Montréal (1994-1996)
Arlene Advani Arlene has been born and bought up in India and has graduated from Mumbai University with a BA degree majoring in Sociology. Current and previous positions: Currently working at AUT as a PA/Administrator in the Centre of Interdisciplinary Trauma Research Worked for IndiaFirst Life Insurance Company Ltd. as an Executive Assistant to the MD & CEO from July 2009 to September 2015. Worked for Reliance Life Insurance Company Ltd. as an Executive Secretary to the CEO from April 2006 to July 2009. Worked as a secretary to the Vice President International Business in Macleod s Pharmaceutical Ltd Company from 24th October 2005 to 10th February 2006. Worked as a secretary in a reputed architects firm, Urban Studio from 14th January 2005 to 20th October 2005. Dr Braden Te Ao Braden is of Waikato-Tainui descent. He is a Research Fellow with technical expertise in economic evaluations. He is a health services researcher and has research interest, which includes access, quality and efficiency of health care technologies and services. In particular, he has strong interests in evaluating the cost effectiveness of health care services and interventions aimed at reducing health disparities for vulnerable populations. Associate Professor Dave Parry Dave is an Associate Professor and Head of the department of computer science, in the AUT School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences. Dave s research interests include health informatics and ehealth along with pervasive computing and RFID. Most of Dave s work is related to the use of computing devices and sensors in order to identify human activity automatically and link this to knowledge sources. Specific completed RFID projects include analysis of anesthetist s activity in operating theatres and the use of RFID bracelets to support community exercise programmes. Current projects include identification of knowledge sources in healthcare, drug administration tracking with ADHB, usability evaluation of mobile devices in healthcare and fuzzy ontology approaches to the analysis of activity and clinical data. Emma Witt After graduating with an MSc in Health Psychology from the University of Auckland in 2005, Emma moved to Scotland where she lived for several years and worked on clinical trials in psychological medicine and mental health research at the University of Edinburgh. In 2010, Emma returned to New Zealand and joined the National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neurosciences (NISAN) research team at AUT, where she managed a clinical trial and co-managed a programme of research on stroke epidemiology and outcomes. In 2015, Emma followed her interest in research data management to the role of Data Manager with the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology.
Dr Jackie Feather Jackie has many years clinical experience working with children, adolescents, families and adults in community, statutory and mental health settings. She was a psychologist and clinical team leader at the Specialist Services Unit of Child Youth and Family, and a founding staff member of Puawaitahi, the multi-agency centre for child abuse assessment and treatment in Central Auckland. Jackie teaches on the Postgraduate Programme in Counselling Psychology at AUT and is a member of the ehealth research team. The Harmonised project is a particular passion as Jackie is committed to young people being empowered to make good decisions about relationships, sexuality and safety. She is enjoying being part of a diverse team that is Māori-centred and puts young people front and centre in the research process. James Case James is the software engineer and IT consultant for the Harmonised project. He holds a Masters Degree in Biomedical Informatics and has contributed to the development of many consumer health oriented web applications, particularly serving vulnerable populations. His primary area of specialisation is in clinical research informatics where he has contributed to the development and implementation of systems enabling researchers to become more efficient and compliant with data collection methods. Professor Karen Eden Karen is Professor in the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology at OHSU. She earned her B.S. degree in Mathematics from Ball State University. She then earned a Master s degree in Biomechanics, Physiology, and Anatomy at University of Iowa. She later attended Portland State University, where she earned a Ph.D. in Systems Science/Engineering Management. The focus of her research was decision science (understanding how people make decisions). Karen began her career at the Nike Sport Research Laboratory in Beaverton, Oregon as a biomechanics researcher. She also built her first decision aid to help runners pick shoes based on their injury history, shoe wear pattern and running pace. She next brought her passion for creating decision making tools to healthcare. The focus of her healthcare research career has been in translating evidence to help patients make informed decisions about their own health. These decision aids span a broad range of topics including domestic violence safety planning, college assault, breast cancer screening, childbirth after cesarean, and recently, decisions around opioid use. Her development process includes working with stakeholders (advocates, community leaders, providers, patients, policy makers) to create a product that is evidence-based and will support the decision making process. She also serves on the International Patient Decision Aids Standards Collaboration (IPDAS) that is establishing internationally approved standards for patient decision aids. These standards include presenting evidence in an unbiased and understandable way. This will be particularly important in creating an aid for youth in making decisions about healthy relationships.
Lucinda Okuyama I have been fortunate to have many opportunities to advocate for the wellbeing of women and young people through innovative research and technology. Lucinda is a researcher, project manager, lecturer and community collaborator. She has partnered with different organisations in New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, North Africa and Thailand which has enabled her to develop a global health perspective. Her partnerships include working alongside prominent academic institutions, government sectors, local and international NGO s and the philanthropic sector. Lucinda has managed various research and evaluation projects and her research involvement centers on areas of health promotion and violence prevention, particularly for young people. Her leadership style includes a strength based perspective and she is known for her use of participatory action research methodologies. With funding from the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment she currently manages an interdisciplinary, international research team at the Auckland University of Technology to test effectiveness and to disseminate the Harmonised App to support development of healthy partner relationships among taitamariki. Lucinda has a Masters of Applied Psychology (Community). Professor Nancy Glass As a Hopkins Nurse, I have had many opportunities to collaborate and advocate with global partners for research to end gender inequity, poverty, and violence against women." Nancy is a nurse clinician, researcher, cross-discipline bridge builder, and educator. Her research and practice expertise in public health, health disparities, and intimate partner violence reflect the focus of the School of Nursing and Johns Hopkins University on global health threats, particularly in developing countries. Her research centers on clinical care and intervention in the areas of violence prevention and health disparities. With funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, she is conducting three major studies on intimate partner violence. As an associate director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health a program that bridges the international work of the university's schools of Nursing, Medicine, and Public Health and an ambassador for Research America s Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research, Dr. Glass serves as a global health scientist-advocate. She also is a past-president of the Nursing Network on Violence against Women, International. In all her global outreach roles, Dr. Glass works to educate policymakers, thought leaders, the media, and the public about the importance of global health research. Professor Peggy Fairbairn- Dunlop From sustainable development to gender and youth equity, AUT s foundation Professor of Pacific Studies Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop has a wealth of knowledge about issues affecting Pacific communities. Professor Fairbairn-Dunlop has been researching and publishing on Pacific development issues for over 30 years and has lived and worked in various organisations in Samoa for just under that same amount of time. She draws on her New Zealand, Samoa and Pacific experiences as a playschool mother helper, primary school teacher, teachers' college lecturer through to university lecturer as well as her extensive involvement in women s and youth NGO advocacy and community education programmes for this research. She sees growing a vibrant and robust Pacific postgraduate community at AUT as her key priority. The majority of her time has been spent in New Zealand and Samoa but also Fiji, Niue and Tokelau. In the Pacific, she has worked for most donor agencies and has held various UN posts (UNDP, UNIFEM and UNESCO). Her research mostly involves the critiquing of global models for their appropriateness to Pacific peoples especially how these influence the family systems, including issues of sustainable development, family security and family-based violence. In addition to her role with the university, she coordinates the twice monthly sessions of the national Pacific Post Graduate Talanoa by access grid which is now funded by AUT. Currently Professor Fairbairn-Dunlop is chair of the Health Research Council Pacific team and sits on various Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health committees, the Social Sciences committee of the Royal Society and the UNESCO Social Sciences Committee.
Dr Shelaine Zambas Shelaine completed a DHSc using a Pragmatic and Hermeneutic methodology to explore nurses experience of the role of advanced assessment skills in improving patient outcomes. She has a background in rural/community and acute care nursing. She is currently Programme Leader for the BHSc (Nursing) at AUT. Shelaine s research interests include nursing assessment and diagnostic reasoning, indigenous health care access and teaching and learning strategies. She is a reviewer for Contemporary Nurse, Qualitative Health Research, Advances in Nursing Science, Neonatal, Pediatric and Child Health Nursing Journal and International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Wellbeing. Her current student supervisions include Masters Practice Project, DHSc students and PhD students. To Shelaine the Harmonised project means health education for healthy relationships designed by youth for youth, and by Māori for Māori. She sees this as a great opportunity to work upstream to prevent domestic violence and to learn more about health service requirements from Māori. Dr Stephanie Palmer Stephanie has worked as a freelance researcher for government agencies, NGOs and community based groups that are responsive to the needs of Māori for many years. She has lived on ancestral lands in Hauraki since the early 90s and established Tumana Research as a vehicle for the advancement of Māori research capacity in 2005. As a PhD thesis, Stephanie developed a 12-item picture-based tool to measure a mātauranga Māori construct of wellbeing and generated empirical evidence of its role as a psycho-social mediator of Māori childbirth outcomes. A post-doctoral work programme she is aiming to strengthen the psychometric properties of this tool. Stephanie has worked across a number of health and social service sectors and her research interests include parental decision-making about childhood vaccines, the marginalisation of ancestral Māori lands, the effectiveness of mental health services for Māori, the impacts of gambling on Māori and, more recently, the use of a social norms approach in community mobilisation primary prevention strategies for whānau violence. Stephanie is of Ngāti Porou descent, primarily Te Aitanga-a-Mate and Ngatirangi. She has 5 sons and 4 beautiful mokopuna. Tame Te Rangi (Harmonised Kaumatua) Tame is a Licensed Māori Interpreter and is self-employed. His interests include marae, hapū, Iwi development, second chance education, training and development, rugby, rugby league, wood chopping, land utilisation and development, whānau growth and development, and Mangakāhia Rugby Football Club. Tame s vision for Ngapuhi is: He aha te tino tohu e mārama ai koe ki tō karangatanga kia Ngāpuhi? which translates to "What would be the one indicator that enhances your understanding of your being Ngāpuhi?
Terry Dobbs The safety and protection of children and young people has been foremost in Terry s work for over 25 years. She is a registered Social Worker and holds a Master s Degree in Childhood and Adolescent Studies. Terry has many years of experience working in the field of whānau violence interventions and prevention, (both within practice and research) and the use of strategies for Māori using cultural frameworks and practices. Terry has many years working in the fields of sexual abuse, forensic interviewing, child protection, and promoting children and young people s agency. Terry developed and taught a Masters paper for AUT University Institute of Public Policy on facilitating children s inclusion within research and has been engaged in training on engagement with children in a number of settings, ensuring safe ethical (tika) practice. Terry has been involved in many research projects involving children and young people and has worked in academic, statutory, community and Iwi settings. She has significant experience in kaupapa Māori research with strong active networks with Iwi and Māori organisations and with Indigenous peoples internationally. Terry affiliates to Ngapuhi iwi, Te Mahurihuri and Ngati Pakau hapu. This Project progresses Terry's previous research projects on violence prevention and progresses her personal kaupapa of promoting children and young people s agency and their ability to participate in research. Te Wai Barbarich Currently Te Wai is the Research Officer at the Interdisciplinary Trauma Research Centre. Te Wai graduated form The University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Human Services (Youth Work major) and is currently completing a PG.Dip in Public Health. She has worked on Programs around sexual violence whilst studying and recently spent the last 3 years at the DHB suporting Māori whānau through their health journeys, as well as working on immunisation programmes and Rheumatic Fever prevention. Te Wai has a strong passion for rangatahi and empowering them holistically as the next generation. Te Wai was raised in the small town of Kaiaua (north of Thames). She moved to Auckland in 1999 to complete her schooling in Papatoetoe. She is of Māori, English and Croatian descent and her whānau heil from Waikato- Tainui iwi. Te Wai is the youngest of 3 children and aunty to many. Naku te rourou nau te rourou ka ora ai te iwi.