SPONSORS
The Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC)
The Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) is proud to sponsor the Ministry of Health’s National Pacific Provider Development Fono – Akirata – Achieving Excellence in the Pacific Health Sector, in Auckland on 28 – 29 February 2008.
The Health Research Council of New Zealand
The Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) is the Crown agency responsible for the management of the Government's investment in public good health research.
Ownership of the HRC resides with the Minister of Health, with funding being primarily provided from Vote Research, Science and Technology. A Memorandum of Understanding between the two Ministers sets out this relationship.
The HRC’s statutory functions include:
- advising the Minister and administering funds in relation to national health research policy
- fostering the recruitment, education, training, and retention of those engaged in health research in New Zealand
- initiating and supporting health research
- undertaking consultation to establish priorities in health research
- promoting and disseminating the results of health research to encourage their contribution to health science, policy and delivery
- ensuring the development and application of appropriate assessment standards by committees or subcommittees that assess health research proposals.
The HRC’s mission is to improve human health by promoting and funding health research.
For more information, contact the HRC on (09) 303 5200 or visit our website: www.hrc.govt.nz
The Health Sponsorship Council (HSC)
The Health Sponsorship Council (HSC) is a Crown agency that markets health and healthy lifestyles to New Zealanders.
The HSC undertakes work in the areas of tobacco control (Smokefree and Auahi Kore), sun safety (SunSmart), healthy eating (Feeding our Futures), and problem gambling (Problem Gambling – Our Communities, Our Families, Our Problem).
HSC's long-term outcomes focus on:
- Reducing the prevalence of smoking.
- Reducing the proportion of New Zealanders who develop and die from skin cancer.
- Increasing awareness, knowledge and consumption of healthy foods, increasing the number of New Zealanders maintaining a healthy weight.
- Preventing and minimising the harm from problem gambling.
To meet these outcomes the HSC uses social marketing – employing commercial marketing and communication principles and techniques to analyse, plan, execute and evaluate programmes designed to influence the behaviour of audiences in order to improve their health.