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Join the University of Auckland, New Zealand’s Pacific Studies group for insights from an HRC-funded study that explores the impacts of climate change on the mental wellbeing of Pacific people.
The Pacific region is at the forefront of climate change related impacts. Very few people in the Pacific will be unaffected by climate change, particularly as half the population live within 1.5 kilometres of the ocean. Rapid rises in sea-level, more severe cyclones and floods, and changes to seasonal weather are real. This has significant implications for Pacific peoples' mental health and wellbeing outcomes. Poverty, underdevelopment, political rigidity, dependency, and geographic isolation, along with displacement and migration all play their part in the climate change and mental health and wellbeing discourses.
A Health Research Council of New Zealand funded project led by a team of University of Auckland climate change and mental health and wellbeing experts have undertaken fieldwork in the Cook Islands, Niue and Aotearoa New Zealand. It is a transdisciplinary and exploratory study and a first step in the development of a research area which explores the intricate complexities of climate change, mental health and wellbeing, and its impacts upon Pacific communities
Pacific Studies will be hosting this webinar where the project team and others will be sharing study progress and insights on the impacts of climate change upon Pacific people’s mental health and wellbeing.
Moderator/Facilitator
Associate Professor Yvonne Underhill-Sem, Pacific Studies
Keynote Presenter
Dr Christina Newport - Project Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pacific Studies
Presenters & Panellists:
Dr Jemaima Tiatia-Seath – Acting Pro Vice Chancellor - Pacific
Dr Fiona Langridge - Research Fellow Social and Community Health
Professor Alistair Woodward - Epidemiology and Biostatistics