The new Langimalie Research Centre was formally incorporated in October 2022.
The Research Centre directors are:
Dr Ofa Dewes
Dr Glenn Doherty
Dr Maika Kinahoi Veikune
Mrs Pauline Taufa
Dr Ofa Dewes has been appointed Centre Director and Dr Glenn Doherty as the Medical Director.
Langimalie Research Centre Research Projects
Taunakitanga Takitini programme
The programme aims to build Aotearoa specific knowledge about supported self-management to enable those who experience greatest health inequities, that is, underserved populations living with lifelong conditions (specifically Māori and Pacific peoples, Tāngata Whaikaha (Māori with disability) and those experiencing learning (intellectual) disability) and their whānau to be supported to live the best possible life.
Partnering with Māori, Pacific and disability healthcare providers we will explore service users and communities needs and aspirations for living well and what healthcare services would best support them and how.
Using this knowledge, we will co-develop care models of how collaborative community healthcare professionals and kaiāwhina can support and work alongside whānau and communities to enable them to support themselves within their own context.
These models will then be implemented, and outcomes evaluated. Our findings will inform policy, healthcare service and the public. We will thereby build Aotearoa specific research capacity and capability.
Intergenerational, Integrative & Intellectual Pacific Properties and Pathways for Life (IP4Life)
Research and Related Activities - Facilitate recruitment engagement as well as advise on study procedures, interpretation of findings, and study dissemination for the Auckland component of project 2.
Project 2 is to undertake an in-depth qualitative study of Tokelauan families to assess the family, household and community strengths that allow people in those communities to thrive despite the challenges of living in families with chronic disease.
Pacific cultures: Building blocks for a socially-involved and co-created approach to brain health among older adults
Research aims
The aim of the project is to investigate how Pacific older adults engage with and participate in wellness and wellbeing service provision and social contexts, and how such participation impacts their wellness and wellbeing, and in later life.
Research objectives:
Work with available data sets (primarily Integrated Data Infrastructure) to define the cohort and identify wellness and wellbeing outcomes that impact positive ageing among older adults.
Determine the experiences of older adults with a particular focus on the barriers and enablers to optimising their wellness and wellbeing. This involves interviewing participants according to their preferences i.e. individually or with their carer/family members.
Identify unmet psychosocial needs. This involves collecting information on lived experiences that focuses on unmet needs.
Explore satisfaction with and appropriateness of publicly-funded services. This involves ascertaining participants’ knowledge/awareness of services and exploring satisfaction with these services.
Consider ways in which participants can be better supported to strengthen and maintain their wellness and wellbeing.
Develop research capacity and capability and culturally-appropriate wellness and wellbeing resources. This involves research engagement, supervision, mentorship and sponsorship, and conducting community workshops including the development and adaptation of a wellness map and resources to illustrate/demonstrate Pacific cultural and holistic approaches in body, mind and spirit for overall wellness and wellbeing.
Identify implications for wellness and wellbeing, health and social service providers, and policy makers. This involves quantitative and qualitative data analysis and understanding of the implications of the results.
Disseminate findings to stakeholders in accessible and culturally-engaging ways. This involves scheduling fonos, publications and presentations of the results and resources to key stakeholders, health and social sectors, service providers, and researchers.
Research Objectives
The objectives of the project are:
Metabolic and epidemiological evaluation of Tongan, Tuvaluan, Tokelauan, and Rotuman populations, focusing on metabolic and inflammatory disorders and renal function.
Genome-wide association and metabolome genome-wide association studies on multiple phenotypes and metabolomic measures to identify genetic variants contributing to disease in these populations.
Capacity and capability-building in the respective communities.
