Geoff Milner

CA MBA (with distinction) BBS
Ngāti Porou/Ngāti Kahungunu

It is an honour to serve as a Trustee as part of the Mahitahi Hauora Board on the single Primary Health Entity for Northland where collaboration with whānau, iwi, community, health and social service providers underpins our aspiration to make Northland the healthiest place to live.

I am also excited about the possibilities and opportunities for Mahitahi Hauora to demonstrate practically what our commitment to Te Tiriti O Waitangi might be for Northlanders (the home of Te Tiriti) if we adopt Te Tiriti O Waitangi as our foundation model of practice. Simply put, would we deliver primary health services in Northland in the way they are currently structured if we were to measure these services against Partnership, Protection and Participation!

Moe Milne

Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, Māori Mental Health Leader, Nurse.

I am competent in Te Ao Māori and in Te Ao Tauiwi with a lot of experience in both areas. I am fluent in Te Reo me ona Tikanga and in my psychiatric nursing registration. I was awarded Te Ao Māramatanga award to acknowledge my continued contribution to Māori mental health nursing and services.

I have long been an advocate for Tangata Māori and the right to live well nurtured in their Reo, to be Māori, to be rangatitira and to be educated.

I am a servant of the people.

Errol Murray

Te Aupouri, Ngāti Kuri, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa, Ngāi Takoto
General Manager for Whakawhiti Ora Pai, Representative for the Māori Health Providers

Personal Vision: Improved access to health and social services for rural Māori whānau

I moved from Auckland to Te Kao, where my parents are from, in March of 1985 with my wife and our young family. My working life has been varied; however, I have worked in the fields of health and social work for over 25 years. Living in Te Kao has also given me an intimate knowledge of the struggles and complex challenges our Māori whānau in rural communities face on a day to day basis.

My first governance experience was in the 1980s as a School Board of Trustee member. Since then I have sat on numerous boards and committees, all pertaining to education, social services and health. It’s with this experience and knowledge I accepted a governance role on Mahitahi Hauora, as I totally support the Objectives and Purposes of the Trust as a way forward to address inequality and improve the health status, in particular, of our rural Māori whānau and community.

Lynette Merle Stewart

CNZM
Ngātiwai-Patuharakeke-Tainui

Chief Executive – Kia Ora Ngātiwai

Significant executive experience at both governance and operational levels. Recent Chair of the Te Tai Tokerau Primary Health Organization (TTTPHO). Board member of Te Kaupapa Mahitahi Hauora and I Have a Dream Trust.

Formally Chief Executive of Te Tai Tokerau MAPO Trust with strategic co-funding management and co-monitoring of health and disability services in Te Tai Tokerau for Māori health gain, in partnership with Māori, the Ministry of Health, and the Northland District Health Board.

Chair, Northland District Health Board (NDHB) from 2001 to 2009, National District Health Boards, New Zealand, NZ National Health and Public Health Advisory Boards, Member, Institute of Directors, New Zealand.

University of Auckland Business School, Dame Mira Szazy Maori Business Leadership Award (Inaugural – 2003), and the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2008. Lynette continues to champion education for students from Tai Tokerau.

Mahitahi Hauora is pivotal to the strategic consolidation of Primary Health across Te Tai Tokerau, in partnership with Communities, Iwi, and Northland DHB.

Dr Suzanne Phillips

General Practitioner at The Bayview Medical Centre in Paihia

I arrived in New Zealand as an immigrant from Texas, USA in 1989 and began working as a General Practitioner at Wellsford Medical Centre where I stayed until 1993. I moved to Northland and spent a year as a Hospital Doctor at the Bay of Islands Hospital in Kawakawa. In 1994 my business partner, Dr Bronwyn Price, and I opened our General Practice clinic at The Bayview Medical Centre in Paihia and we have continued to work there ever since.

I served on the Te Tai Tokerau PHO from 2016 until its ending in 2019 and I have served on the Mahitahi Board since its beginning. I have great hope in the vision of Mahitahi to be innovative in developing a more integrated and responsive approach to health services so that our communities become healthier as well as the individuals in it.

Boyd Broughton

Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi, Tainui, Ngāti Porou

Boyd is our Te Kau o Taonui representative and is the General Manager of iwi healthcare provider, Te Hā Oranga.

Marihi Langford

Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi, Tainui, Ngāti Porou

I have worked across Māori health and social services for over twenty years and am dedicated to effective outcomes for our people and communities. I have held roles in the District Health Board and Non-Government Organisations in the areas of social and health services. I have been fortunate to have been on a number of boards in the past where I have enjoyed learnings and experiences that have equipped me to support the direction of Mahitahi Hauora. I am looking forward to the journey ahead.

Ngila Bevan

Ngila is a professional director and independent advisor to government and the not-for-profit sector. She brings skills in strategy, policy, risk, and assurance. As a human rights lawyer Ngila has a nuanced understanding of the right to health and long experience of advocating for equity and self-determination. She is a former Co-Chief Executive Officer of People with Disability Australia, an expert in disability rights, and passionate about the mental health of women and girls, especially mothers and carers. Ngila is also a trustee of the Mental Health Foundation and employee of the World of Difference Project at the University of Otago Department of Psychological Medicine.