Tuvaluan PhD finalist and PMA Member, Jane Tafaaki, proudly utilised the Tuvaluan language in her research which focused on the lived experiences of rural Tuvaluans navigating the Aotearoa New Zealand healthcare system.

The Pasifika Medical Association (PMA) annual Charity Ball was recently held at Te Papa Museum’s Amokura Gallery in Wellington. The sold-out gala event featured live music, fine dining and an auction, and all together raised over $155,000 towards PMA’s Education Fund.

The Pasifika Medical Association (PMA) conference came to a close with conversations centered around mental health and reflections on humanitarian assistance in the region.

The Pasifika Medical Association is playing a major role in a new Canterbury-based initiative that brings health, wellbeing and education experts together with Pacific Island and Māori communities to improve outcomes for children.

The Pasifika Medical Association (PMA) recently awarded a group of Pacific health leaders the PMA Life Award for their contribution to the health needs of Pacific people in the region.

The Pasifika Medical Association (PMA) welcomed a number of dignitaries from across the Pacific as part of the official opening of the annual PMA Conference, which took place at the Te Papa Museum in Wellington.

The Pasifika Medical Association (PMA) recently held its annual conference in Wellington after a two-year hiatus. The much-anticipated event saw hundreds of Pacific health professionals and students from around NZ and across the Pacific region, come together over the course of three days to engage and talanoa in various workshops and seminars.

In a recent interview with 531 P.I Pacific Morning’s, Dr Lupe Taumoepeau (FRACS) gave some insights about the upcoming Pasifika Medical Association (PMA) Conference 2022.

The Pasifika Medical Association Conference 2022 is only days away and with a wide array of health and wellbeing topics being shared by various subject matter experts, places are filling up fast.

The Pasifika Medical Association’s (PMA) Conference 2022 theme of Reconnect, Reflect, Reframe and Re-energise will initiate engaging and stimulating talanoa across a wide spectrum of topics, from mental health and humanitarian assistance to digital literacy and climate change to genuinely encompass the wide and evolving definition of “Pacific Wellbeing”.

The Pasifika Medical Association’s (PMA) annual conference is only a couple of weeks awayand is taking place at Te Papa Museum, Wellington from September 4th-6th. There are high calibre speakers throughout the conference who will share and facilitate robust talanoa within their fields of expertise.

Phyllein Pauli Taetafe was the recipient of the 2019 Christina Atoa Tapu Nursing Scholarship, funded by the Pasifika Medical Association (PMA) Education Fund.