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Northern Hemisphere Summer Research Projects @ LENScience
20 December 2018Two summer research projects investigating adolescent responses to education programmes exploring scientific evidence are available for undergraduate students from eligible northern hemisphere universities. Applications close Feb 4, 2019. -
Empowering teens to live NCD free lives
17 November 2017Tereora College on Rarotonga has been tackling the risk of NCDs through a cross-curricular, multi-sectoral unit looking closely at the Cook Islands. -
World Diabetes Day in the Cook Islands
15 November 2017To mark World Diabetes Day the Cook Islands Ministry of Health distributed a poster drawing attention to women's health and diabetes. -
Adolescents as agents of healthful change through scientific literacy development: A school-university partnership program in New Zealand
27 September 2017Evidence of positive long-term impacts for teenagers participating in LENScience Healthy Start to Life Education programmes. -
Barriers and enablers to adolescent lifestyle behaviours
16 June 2017Heimata Herman, a postgraduate student working within the Pacific Science for Health Literacy Partnership Programme, was interviews in June on Radio NZ National's Dateline Pacific programme. -
Investigating Cook Islands school students attitudes to health
12 June 2017Radio NZ National's Dateline Pacific programme talks to Mayor Pokino about the research she is currently undertaking on Rarotonga as part of the Pacific Science for Health Literacy Partnership Project. -
Young Pacific researchers seek obesity circuit-breaker with Pacific youth
01 June 2017Four young postgraduate Pacific health researchers are working with the PSHLP project this year. Heimata Herman, Siobhan Tu'akoi, Mayor Pokino, and Alvina Pauuvale are working with Pacific teens and their communities to help break the intergenerational cycle of obesity and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs). -
Scholarship success for researchers investigating Cook Island health issues
01 December 2016Three young Cook Islands-focused researchers, Heimata Herman, Mayor Pokino and Siobhan Tu’akoi, have been awarded scholarships in the latest New Zealand Health Research Council funding round. -
Bookings for 2016 Face-to-Face Junior programmes are now closed
20 May 2016Junior programme booking requests are now closed. -
Bookings for Face-to-Face Junior programmes in 2016 now open
04 May 2016LENScience is now accepting booking requests for the junior programmes in the second half of 2016. -
Teachers and Public Health Working Together to Empower Youth to as Agents of Change in the Cook Islands
01 May 2016The Pacific Science for Health Literacy Project (PSHLP) team started the year with a workshop supporting teachers to empower young people to “be the change” as they explore the challenges of obesity, heart disease and type 2 diabetes in the Cook Islands. -
‘Science in Society’ Science Communication Workshop
09 February 2016We invite you to attend a ‘Science in Society’ science communication workshop on 23 February at Waipuna Lodge, Mt Wellington, Auckland. The LENScience team at the Liggins Institute (University of Auckland) are holding a workshop to facilitate discussion around effective communication and the translation of science in the community. -
2016 Booking requests now CLOSED
26 November 2015Booking requests for the LENScience Face-to-Face programmes in 2016 are now closed. -
LENScience Face-to-Face Bookings 2016
28 October 2015LENScience is now accepting bookings for classes to participate in the Face-to-Face Programmes at the Liggins Institute during 2016. -
LENScience co-hosts a special meeting with the World Health Organization Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity
11 August 2015In July LENScience co-hosted a special event with Tamaki College between Auckland youth and international education leaders with the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity. This is the only occasion that the WHO Commissioners will meet with youth and/or educators during their worldwide trip to gather feedback on their Interim Report.
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