Conference focuses on holistic Asian health

Keynote speakers from the United States, United Kingdom and Hong Kong will be among nine featured presenters appearing at the Fourth International Asian Health and Wellbeing Conference in Auckland next month.

The conference, devoted this year to ‘An Holistic Approach to Asian Health’, is being delivered by the Centre for Asian Health Research and Evaluation (CAHRE), part of the Medical and Health Sciences faculty at Auckland University.

Topics to be covered by international presenters include The Promise and Peril of Health Policy for Asians: the United States Experience by Professor Leighton Ku from George Washington University, and Diabetes in South Asians: Nature, Nurture or Karma? from Professor Kamlesh Khunti at the University of Leicester.

Other topics to be covered during the biennial event include mental health, cardio-vascular disease, obesity, health policy, viable solutions and interventions.

As with previous conferences held in 2008 and 2006, CAHRE is again holding a photo-essay competition for the public. This year entries should illustrate a holistic approach to Asian health in New Zealand and be explained through a short essay of 250 words.

Entries will be will be displayed at the conference and judged by conference organisers and delegates.

CAHRE was formed in 2004 to foster international collaboration with individual researchers and organisations from Asia with a focus on making positive contributions to health and wellbeing for Asian New Zealanders and Asian communities.

The conference will be held at the School of Population Health, Tamaki Campus in Auckland on 5-6 July.