enHealth is a collaborative partnership of many organisations within the
Auckland region established in 2002. It is about bridging the gap between
research centres and environmental health professionals in order to improve
evidence based practice through a collaborative and strategic approach.
Its mission is to provide a network forum for exchange of ideas and
information between environmental health stakeholders in the Auckland region.
Its aim is to identify and facilitate addressing environmental health
policy research needs to enhance human health.
enHealth has established a strategic partnership between environmental health
stakeholders in the Auckland region and brings these stakeholders together
across the range of subjects that encompass environmental health, so as to
enhance human health and quality of life.
Its goals are to achieve collective communication, training and research through a shared
vision and one voice.
enHealth is coordinated by
Mark Lyne
and chaired by Professor
Alistair Woodward, Head of the School of Population Health.
Mark Lyne
Alistair Woodward
enHealth's vision:
A healthy environment that supports healthy people.
enHealth's mission:
To provide a network forum for exchange of ideas and information between
environmental health stakeholders in the Auckland region.
enHealth's aim:
To identify and facilitate addressing environmental health policy research needs
to enhance human health.
enHealth's goals:
1. To improve collaboration and communication through:
- provision of a sustainable partnership of key environmental health stakeholders
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increasing the participation of stakeholders
- enhancing information sharing.
2. To increase the skills and capacity of the environmental health
workforce through:
- improved research and development
- workforce planning to meet future needs and challenges
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enhanced workforce training.
3. To support decision making ability through:
- facilitation of environmental health policy research and development
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strengthening the evidence base
- provision of a comprehensive research information system
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provision of an advocacy role in environmental health.
enHealth is represented and supported by the following:
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The
University of Auckland
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Auckland Regional Council
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Auckland University of Technology
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Auckland Regional Public Health Service
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Auckland City Council
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Ministry for the Environment
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Manukau City Council
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- Ministry of Health
- Waitakere City Council
- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
- North Shore City Council
- Environmental Science Research Ltd
- Landcare Research
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Recent research
- Housing intensification and health
- The promotion of physical activity by territorial local
authorities
- An assessment of air quality in an enclosed multi-storey
carpark
- Climate change: politics or science?
Contact us
If you want to find out more about enHealth or if you are a regional
environmental health stakeholder and wish to be part of enHealth, then please
contact:
