Outcomes, Outputs, and Impacts
Koronga tei rauka, Koronga kia rave‘ia, e te au ‘Akatūkia‘anga
2025
Assessment of mental health in Cook Island adolescents: A baseline survey
Evolution of a sustained health promotion programme exploring adolescent metabolic health in the Cook Islands
Exploring food environments using Photovoice
Metabolic health toolkit
Photovoice as pedagogy in a Pacific setting: Exploring complexity in Cook Islands food environments with adolescent learners
Tōku ora'anga kōpapa nō te au rā ki mua | My health, my future
2024
Build your future on solid foundations
Let’s talk about it – Teens
Lifelong health - Our Tamariki poster series
Pacific Science for Health Literacy Project (PSHLP) Phase II: Transformation from pilot to sustainable practice - Ora’anga Tumanava
Past, present and future lifestyles in the Cook Islands
Photovoice as pedagogy: Exploring complexity in Cook Islands food environments
Photovoice toolkit
Promoting school-based learning about nutrition and physical activity using Photovoice: A systematic review
Spatial distribution of health services across the Cook Islands
Statistical literacy toolkit
The impact of community-based participatory DOHaD research
2023
Adolescent health and wellbeing methodologies and approaches for engagement: Co-design via school partnerships
Adolescents exploring their food environments in Atiu
Aitutaki adolescents exploring their food environments using Photovoice
Awareness of associations between nutrition in early-life and lifelong health: Aitutaki community survey
Awareness of associations between nutrition in early-life and lifelong health: Rarotonga community survey
Baseline assessment of mental health in Cook Island adolescents
Developing the Tokelau National Health and Physical Education Curriculum: A case study
Exploring our food environments using Photovoice: Rarotonga schools
Physical activity: Perspectives from Cook Islands adolescents
Te tūranga oraʻanga o te iti tangata Kuki Airani ʻinanaʻi, i tēia rā e āpōpō
Today's teens, tomorrow's parents: What's the health status?
Toku Tupu'anga: Co-designing a "My Health Profile" resource for Cook Islands adolescents
2022
COVID-19 vaccine update: 5-11 year-olds can now get their COVID-19 vaccination
Exploring the retail food environment surrounding two secondary schools with predominantly Pacific populations in Tonga and New Zealand to enable the development of mapping methods appropriate for testing in a classroom
Kura the crab talks to children about the COVID-19 vaccine
Physical activity: Perspectives from Cook Islands adolescents
The Pacific Science for Health Literacy Project: A case study of collaboration and capability development
2021
Birth weight and adolescent health indicators in Rarotonga, Cook Islands
COVID-19 education pamphlet for Cook Islands schools
COVID-19 vaccinations: What do I need to know?
COVID-19 vaccine update: 12-15 year olds can now get their COVID-19 vaccination
COVID-19 vaccines in the Cook Islands: Resources for teachers
Oraanga Meitaki: Early-life health for lifelong and transgenerational wellbeing in the Cook Islands
Talking about COVID-19: Resources for teachers
2020
DOHaD in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review exploring gaps in DOHaD population studies
Supporting Cook Island communities to access DOHaD evidence
Te maki toto vene (T2): E manamanata no toku iti tangata - interactive
2019
DOHaD in developing nations: A systematic review exploring gaps in DOHaD population studies
DOHaD in the Pacific: Connecting early-life factors and current health in Rarotongan adolescents
DOHaD interventions: Opportunities during adolescence and the periconceptional period
Intervening through education: The Pacific Islands experience
Lifelong health - our tamariki: A critical window of opportunity to influence your child's future health
Supporting the health of young people in the Cook Islands
Taking DOHaD to the people of the Cook Islands
The non-communicable disease epidemic: An overview for teachers
2018
Activity Completion Report: Pacific Science for Health Literacy Project
Enabling local evidence to inform school-based programmes supporting NCD risk reduction
Factors associated with health-related behaviours in adolescents: The stories of Rarotongan adolescents and their parents
Health-related attitudes, perceptions and practices of young people: A comparative observational case study between a school in New Zealand and Tonga
The influences of health-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviours on the health and wellbeing of Rarotongan adolescents
The Pacific Science for Health Literacy Project: Facilitating DOHaD knowledge translation within a school setting
The significance of DOHaD for Small Island Developing States
The significance of DOHaD for Small Island Developing States
The significance of DOHaD for Small Island Developing States
Transforming the Pacific Science for Health Literacy Project from pilot to sustainable practice: Ensuring that knowledge is shared with, and further developed by Cook Islands communities
2017
Adolescent participation in the DOHaD story: Changing power relations through collaborative narrative to catalyse the potential of DOHaD for intergenerational change
Health vs. attitudes to health in Rarotongan high school students
Me, myself, my environment: 200 years of lifestyle change in Rarotonga
School-based primary NCD risk reduction: Education and public health perspectives
Supporting health monitoring in schools: Rarotongan students' perceptions of needs, facilitators and barriers
Supporting health monitoring in schools: Rarotongan students' perceptions of needs, facilitators and barriers
The Pacific Science for Health Literacy Project: Evidence of sustained positive impacts for Rarotongan adolescents at 12-months post-intervention
We learnt and now we are teaching our family: Adolescent DOHaD knowledge translation supporting health development in the Cook Islands
2016
Children programmed for obesity
Combining health prevention with education in science and social studies classrooms: The experiences of teachers in the Cook Islands in the Pacific Science for Health Literacy Project
DOHaD-community partnership research: Empowering adolescents to interrupt transgenerational NCD risk in Pacific Island nations
Ensuring that Cook Islands youth understand health monitoring in which they are participants: Linking health monitoring into learning through the Pacific Science for Health Literacy Project
Exploring nutritional attitudes and practices of Rarotongan 13-16 year olds via a population wide school-based survey: Implications for NCD vulnerability and school-based health-promoting interventions
Hands-on in a Tongan science classroom: Improving opportunities for learning
Health and wellbeing throughout the life course
Healthy lifestyles poster series
Ko au e toku aorangi: Kai no te oraanga meitaki
Me, myself, my environment: Me'akai
My health profile
My health profile - Tonga
Non-communicable disease risk factors in Rarotongan adolescents: Examining links to early-life experiences
Non-communicable disease risk in Rarotongan adolescents: Examining links to early-life experiences
Questioning in Tongan science classrooms: A pilot study to identify current practice, barriers and facilitators
Students making decisions: Improving opportunities for learning
Te maki toto vene (T2): E manamanata no toku iti tangata
The socio-ecological determinants of health and wellbeing
Think like a scientist
Wellbeing | Pito'enua
2015
Schools as a setting for NCD risk reduction: Challenges and opportunities for the Ending Childhood Obesity Commission
The Healthy Start to Life Education for Adolescents Project: Indicators of early success in adaptation for use in Small Island Developing States
The Pacific Science for Health Literacy Project: Indicators of success in the development and testing of curriculum-linked education programs supporting adolescents as agents of primary NCD risk prevention in the Cook Islands
2014
Early life interventions: An essential component in addressing NCD burden and leveraging health capital across the life-course
Sustainable energy use: For my ngutuare tangata and my kopu tangata
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