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Board members
The board of Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission has at least seven members appointed under section 28 of the Crown Entities Act 2004.
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The board of Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission has at least seven members appointed under section 28 of the Crown Entities Act 2004.
Rae Lamb has an extensive background in journalism and has worked as deputy commissioner in the office of the Health and Disability Commissioner and more recently, as aged care complaints commissioner for all of Australia. In early 2019, Rae returned to New Zealand and is now chief executive officer of Te Pou, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) focused on developing the mental health, addiction and disability workforce. Rae was a 2001–02 New Zealand Harkness Fellow and was a trustee on the international governing board for Cochrane.
Shenagh Gleisner has had a diverse career as a manager of front line health services, a director of KPMG and a general manager in the Northern Regional Health Authority. She has held a range of senior positions in the core public service including at the State Services Commission, the chief executive of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and the acting deputy chief executive of the Department of Labour.
She now undertakes a range of contracts across many sectors and agencies in the state and the not-for-profit sector. This has included work in the Pacific building capability and organisational reviews.
She has had a long career in governance, is currently a director of a large industry training organisation, a director of Emerge Aotearoa which runs mental health, disability and social housing services and the chair of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet’s risk and assurance committee.
Her qualifications include a Master of Science, a Master of Public Policy and certificates in Māori studies and health economics.
Dr Tristram R. Ingham is the Deputy Head of Department, Research Associate Professor and Clinical Epidemiologist in the Department of Medicine at the University of Otago - Wellington. Dr Ingham has clinical, academic, and governance expertise in addressing health inequities, Māori health, long-term conditions, disability rights and health care governance.
Tristram is the Director of Manatohu Limited, chair of the Foundation for Equity and Research New Zealand (FERNZ), co-chair of the My Life My Voice Charitable Trust. He also chairs Te Ao Mārama Aotearoa Trust a nation-wide organisation representing Tāngata Whaikaha Māori.
David Lui has 30 years’ experience as a Pacific consultant. He is currently the principal consultant/director of Focus on Pacific Ltd, which provides cultural assessment, evaluations, cultural competency training and mentoring/coaching. Areas of particular focus include mental health, alcohol and drugs, mental health promotion, suicide prevention, family violence, justice (offenders) and youth. He has extensive experience working with Pacific communities in Aotearoa New Zealand. He is a board member of the WALSH Trust, and chair of Henderson High School board of trustees. Previously Mr Lui was a member of the Waitematā District Health Board and the chair of Pharmac’s Consumer Advisory Committee.
Professor Ron Paterson grew up in South Auckland and is of Scottish and Ngāti Raukawa descent. Ron is a health law and ethics expert, with a diverse career as a law professor at Auckland University, Deputy Director-General of Safety and Regulation, Health and Disability Commissioner, Parliamentary Ombudsman and Visiting Fellow at Melbourne University (teaching Patient Safety and the Law). He is a lay member of the Medical Council and former community director on the Royal Australasian College of Physicians board.
Ron has led several major inquiries and reviews in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia, in patient safety and quality, medical regulation, veterans’ support, maternity care, aged care, mental health and the regulation of lawyers. He is the author of The Good Doctor: What Patients Want (2012). In his spare time, Ron enjoys off-road running, tramping and helping on a farm near Lake Waikaremoana.
Tereki Stewart is the programme director at Te Kāhui Raraunga Charitable Trust, which was established in 2019 to lead action to realise the advocacy of the Data Iwi Leaders Group. Mr Stewart was previously the pouwhakahaere/senior manager, Te Ao Māori, Census, at Stats NZ, where he was responsible for leading a team to bring te ao Māori perspectives to the Census programme. From 2015 to 2020, he was the chief operating officer at the National Hauora Coalition. Mr Stewart is vice-president of the Waitakere Outrigger Canoe Association and has previously been a member of a number of district health board committees representing Ngāti Whātua.
Rae Lamb has an extensive background in journalism and has worked as deputy commissioner in the office of the Health and Disability Commissioner and more recently, as aged care complaints commissioner for all of Australia. In early 2019, Rae returned to New Zealand and is now chief executive officer of Te Pou, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) focused on developing the mental health, addiction and disability workforce. Rae was a 2001–02 New Zealand Harkness Fellow and was a trustee on the international governing board for Cochrane.
Shenagh Gleisner has had a diverse career as a manager of front line health services, a director of KPMG and a general manager in the Northern Regional Health Authority. She has held a range of senior positions in the core public service including at the State Services Commission, the chief executive of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and the acting deputy chief executive of the Department of Labour.
She now undertakes a range of contracts across many sectors and agencies in the state and the not-for-profit sector. This has included work in the Pacific building capability and organisational reviews.
She has had a long career in governance, is currently a director of a large industry training organisation, a director of Emerge Aotearoa which runs mental health, disability and social housing services and the chair of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet’s risk and assurance committee.
Her qualifications include a Master of Science, a Master of Public Policy and certificates in Māori studies and health economics.
Dr Tristram R. Ingham is the Deputy Head of Department, Research Associate Professor and Clinical Epidemiologist in the Department of Medicine at the University of Otago - Wellington. Dr Ingham has clinical, academic, and governance expertise in addressing health inequities, Māori health, long-term conditions, disability rights and health care governance.
Tristram is the Director of Manatohu Limited, chair of the Foundation for Equity and Research New Zealand (FERNZ), co-chair of the My Life My Voice Charitable Trust. He also chairs Te Ao Mārama Aotearoa Trust a nation-wide organisation representing Tāngata Whaikaha Māori.
David Lui has 30 years’ experience as a Pacific consultant. He is currently the principal consultant/director of Focus on Pacific Ltd, which provides cultural assessment, evaluations, cultural competency training and mentoring/coaching. Areas of particular focus include mental health, alcohol and drugs, mental health promotion, suicide prevention, family violence, justice (offenders) and youth. He has extensive experience working with Pacific communities in Aotearoa New Zealand. He is a board member of the WALSH Trust, and chair of Henderson High School board of trustees. Previously Mr Lui was a member of the Waitematā District Health Board and the chair of Pharmac’s Consumer Advisory Committee.
Professor Ron Paterson grew up in South Auckland and is of Scottish and Ngāti Raukawa descent. Ron is a health law and ethics expert, with a diverse career as a law professor at Auckland University, Deputy Director-General of Safety and Regulation, Health and Disability Commissioner, Parliamentary Ombudsman and Visiting Fellow at Melbourne University (teaching Patient Safety and the Law). He is a lay member of the Medical Council and former community director on the Royal Australasian College of Physicians board.
Ron has led several major inquiries and reviews in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia, in patient safety and quality, medical regulation, veterans’ support, maternity care, aged care, mental health and the regulation of lawyers. He is the author of The Good Doctor: What Patients Want (2012). In his spare time, Ron enjoys off-road running, tramping and helping on a farm near Lake Waikaremoana.
Tereki Stewart is the programme director at Te Kāhui Raraunga Charitable Trust, which was established in 2019 to lead action to realise the advocacy of the Data Iwi Leaders Group. Mr Stewart was previously the pouwhakahaere/senior manager, Te Ao Māori, Census, at Stats NZ, where he was responsible for leading a team to bring te ao Māori perspectives to the Census programme. From 2015 to 2020, he was the chief operating officer at the National Hauora Coalition. Mr Stewart is vice-president of the Waitakere Outrigger Canoe Association and has previously been a member of a number of district health board committees representing Ngāti Whātua.