Professor Victoria Traynor
Victoria is a Professor of Nursing at the University of Wollongong where she has worked for the past 18 years.
Victoria is the Founding Director of Aged and Dementia Health Education Research (ADHERe). ADHERe is a centre for interdisciplinary researchers which uses knowledge translation interventions to promote the health and well-being of older people. Victoria is also the Co-Founding President of the Gerontological Alliance of Nurses Australia (GANA).
Kerri Nuku
Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngai Tai
Kerri is a Registered Nurse and Midwife by background working across primary, community and hospital-based nursing, she is currently the Kaiwhakahaere at Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa – New Zealand Nurses Organisation. Kerri is member of the International Council of Nurses, Audit and Risk Committee, Co-chair of the Iwi Maori Partnership Board for Te Aka Whai Ora. Honorary Member of Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa, New Zealand Nurses Organisation.
Kerri is a well-respected international Indigenous nursing leader who has been representing Aotearoa on a global stage at a range of international for a for decades. She has strong indigenous networks and is a skilled strategist and thinker and strong advocate for human rights, Indigenous rights, women, and Workers’ Rights.
Kerri has led numerous legal challenges specifically pay parity for the workforce, lead applicant for the Kaupapa Health Services enquiry, Mana Wahine claims and Oranga Tamariki – child uplift, a collaborator in the United Nations Universal Periodic Review, the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, shadow report and the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
An advocate and published researcher, her national and international accomplishments have seen her present interventions at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations in New York, protecting freedoms and right of Indigenous peoples.
Kerri is a recipient of the prestigious” International Human Rights and Nursing Award” from the University of Exter UK and recognised in 100 Maori Leaders.
Professor Matthew Parsons, PhD MSc BSc (Hons) RGN NZRN
Matthew holds the position of clinical chair in gerontology, a joint appointment between Health New Zealand (Te Whatu Ora) and the University of Waikato. Matthew works across health and specialist services in the midlands as well as commissioning in the South Island. He also works with Spark Health, as the digital clinical lead, specialising in older people and community health.
Matthew has spent the last three decades researching and implementing new health services to improve the lives of older people and people with disabilities.
Matthew has a particular focus around the use of big data and technology to improve efficiency in healthcare and disability support and has worked with multiple government and non-government organisations in the development and implementation of such. He is a current member of the Whakarongorau Aotearoa clinical governance board and has been a member of the interRAI board for six years. He also led the first telemedicine randomised controlled trial to be undertaken in Aotearoa – NZ.
Matthew has over 100 peer reviewed publications and book chapters and has brought in over NZ$26M in research funds, focussing on the development of funding models that support the adoption of best evidence.
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