PASIFIKA FUTURES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Board Director
- Member of the Board
Dr Francis Agnew is a pioneer in the development of Pacific Mental Health services in New Zealand and the region. In 2010 he was invested as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the Pacific community.
Dr Agnew has been involved in delivering mental health services in the Cook Islands and Samoa. He has provided leadership in the development of Pacific mental health and addiction services in the wider Auckland region and has served on many government agencies and reviews. He is an Executive Board member of the Pasifika Medical Association. He is a fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and a Fellow of the Australasian Chapter of Addiction Medicine. Dr Agnew has served as the Zonal Representative (Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands) for the World Psychiatric Association (WPA). He is the Metua for the Pacific Mental Health Commission.
Job Titles:
- Board Director
- Member of the Board
- Fellow of the Australasian Facility of Public Health Medicine
Dr Siniva Sinclair was born and raised in Papua New Guinea. Dr Sinclair is a Fellow of the Australasian Facility of Public Health Medicine and completed a Masters in Public Health.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Advisor to Te Marae Ora
- Fellow of Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Dr Maoate is a Fellow of Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and was previously the Pacific Island Program. He is the Associate Dean Pacific Health, University of Otago based in Christchurch. Dr Maoate was instrumental in the establishment of Pacific Trust Canterbury and provides strategic leadership in the development of the Pacific Health, Social sector.
Dr Maoate is an advisor to Te Marae Ora the Cook Islands Ministry of Health and is active in the Pacific region as Clinical Director for the New Zealand Medical Treatment Scheme funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs to work with 6 countries in the Pacific region.
Kitiona is based at our Wellington office and looks after the Wellington region.
Job Titles:
- Company Director
- CEO of the Pasifika Medical Association Group
Debbie Sorensen is the CEO of the Pasifika Medical Association Group of charitable companies and Pasifika Futures the Whanau Ora Commissioning Agency for Pacific families in New Zealand.
Debbie has been instrumental in the development of Pacific health services in New Zealand over the past 30 years including as the first Chief Advisor Pacific Health to the Minister of Health. She has led the development of the Pasifika Medical Association group over the past 15 years transforming it into the largest Non-Governmental Pacific organisation in the region.
Debbie is an experienced Company Director holding current governance roles as Vice Chair Moana Pasifika Rugby and a Trustee of the Milford Foundation. She is a member of the governing council Te Poutoko Ora a Kiwi Center of Pacific and Global Health University of Auckland and is a Honorary Lecturer. She is a member of the Health Advisory Committee for the Privy Council to His Majesty King Tupou VI and is a Strategic Advisor to Te Marae Ora Cook Islands. Debbie is the Chair of the Pacific Expert Advisory Committee to Hon Minister Reti and has previously served for 11 years as a trustee of the Fred Hollows Foundation, was a founding Chair of Make a Wish Pacific and is a Chartered Member of the New Zealand Institute of Directors. Debbie was invested in 2015 as a Commander of the Royal Crown of Tonga by His Majesty Tupou V for her work in the health sector in Tonga.
Job Titles:
- Board Director
- Member of the Board
For the past 30 years, Mrs Soana Akolotu Pamaka has devoted her considerable energy and skill to East Auckland's Tamaki College.