Auckland health executives are celebrating 30 years of advice and prodding from an outspoken wahine toa.
Dame Rangimārie Naida Glavish became the former Auckland Area Health Board’s bicultural manager in 1990, after becoming involved in Māori health and education as a leader within Ngāti Whātua.
She is now chief advisor tikanga Māori with He Kāmaka Waiora, Māori Health, for the Waitematā and Auckland District Health Boards.
Waitematā DHB deputy chief executive Andrew Brant says many people have benefited from Dame Naida’s dedication to improving equity and tikanga within the health sector.
Auckland DHB chief executive Ailsa Claire says she is a mentor, leader, teacher and friend.
She has championed appropriate cultural support for Māori patients by developing bicultural and tikanga best practice policies, which have been implemented by other DHBs and some organisations in the private sector, and she has also pushed to increase the diversity of the health workforce.
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