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Our Board Members



               dr tokilupe taumoepeau             dr maryann heather                     dr elizabeth dunn                           dr jitoko cama                                    abel smith

               MBChB, FRACS                                  MBChB, FRNZCGP                           MBChB, FANZCA                                FRACS                                          RN, BN, MPP (Leadership)

our chief executive


Mrs Debbie Sorensen


D.C.C.T, CMInstD, MNZIOD

Chief Executive Officer

Debbie Sorensen is the CEO of the Pasifika Medical Association Group of charitable companies and Pasifika Futures the Whanau Ora Commissioning Agency for Pacific families in New Zealand. Debbie has been instrumental in the development of Pacific health services in New Zealand over the past 30 years including as the first Chief Advisor Pacific Health to the Minister of Health. She has led the development of the Pasifika Medical Association group over the past 15 years transforming it into the largest Non-Governmental Pacific organisation in the region.

Debbie is an experienced Company Director holding current governance roles as Vice Chair Moana Pasifika Rugby and a Trustee of the Milford Foundation. She has recently been appointed as a member of the Te Niwha Steering Group – the Infectious Diseases Research Platform. She is a member of the Health Advisory Committee for the Privy Council to His Majesty King Tupou VI and is a Strategic Advisor to Te Marae Ora Cook Islands. Debbie is a member of the Pacific Expert Advisory Committee to Hon Minister Barbara Edmonds and has previously served for 11 years as a trustee of the Fred Hollows Foundation, was a founding Chair of Make a Wish Pacific and is a Chartered Member of the New Zealand Institute of Directors. Debbie was invested in 2015 as a Commander of the Royal Crown of Tonga by His Majesty Tupou V for her work in the health sector in Tonga.


CONTACT US

PHONE: +64 9 250 5761

EMAIL: info@pacifichealth.org.nz

PHYSICAL ADDRESS:
Building 4                            

195L Main Highway, Ellerslie

Auckland 

New Zealand 1051



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