Watch ProCare Pacific Top Year 5 Medical Student at the University of Auckland, Leilani-Grace Richardson’s speech.

“Young Pasifika out there – consider a career in health. Know that we need you. We need more Pasifika doctors, more Pasifika nurses, more Pasifika midwives. There is support out there for you, and we are all strong together.”

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Watch Pasifika Futures Pacific Health & Wellbeing Award Winner Dr Api Talemaitoga’s speech. Dr Talemaitoga is Chief Advisor, Pacific at the Ministry of Health, Chair of the Pasifika GP Network and has two GP practices in Christchurch and South Auckland. During the Covid-19 lockdowns in New Zealand he could be seen on our screens giving crucial clinical information and messages of hope.

“Let’s not lose our narrative. Let’s take hold of it and own it. That’s the way we’ll go forward. Vinaka vakalevu.”

Pasifika Futures Pacific Health & Wellbeing Award Winner Safaato’a (To’a) Fereti’s speech. To’a is the Clinical Nurse Director of Medicine at Counties Manukau Health, Chair of the New Zealand Nursing Council and President of the Pan Pacific Nurses Association.

“It is the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife 2020, and the current Covid-19 pandemic has brought a focus on the vital work that nurses and midwives have done to respond to this calling.”

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Debbie Sorenson, CEO of the Pasifika Medical Association, accepts the PHARMAC Pacific Service Excellence Award. PMA has taken a leadership role during the Covid-19 pandemic, providing information, support and keeping our communities in touch with one another.