ETU PAIFIKA - Key Persons
Dr Apisalome Talemaitoga is a practicing GP in Christchurch and South Auckland.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Public Health Physician and General Practitioner
Dr Josephine Aumea Herman is a public health physician and general practitioner who holds a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Auckland.
Job Titles:
- Director of Primary Care
- Our Senior Leadership
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- General Practitioner
Dr Nick Giblin is a General Practitioner who lives in Dunedin.
He has been a partner and director of the Broadway Medical Centre Dunedin Ltd for 25 years. Born in Hamilton, New Zealand to parents Frederick Manu Giblin from Levuka, Fiji and Joy Howell from Tolaga Bay on the East coast of the North Island. Nick attended Mount Maunganui Primary School, Suva Grammar School and was a boarder at Sacred Heart College Auckland for his last 3 years of school. He obtained a B.A and BSc in English Literature and Zoology from Otago University and was then nominated for a place at Otago Medical School as a Pacific Student by the late Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara. Nick graduated with MBChB in 1986. He worked as a junior doctor at Dunedin Hospital and then worked in primary healthcare for 2 years in Vatukoula, Fiji. In 1990 Nick returned to New Zealand and gained a postgraduate diploma in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He decided that his passion was for General Practice so he joined the Broadway Medical Centre in Dunedin in 1991. Nick was awarded FRNZCGP in 1992 and he is currently working as a full time GP.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Member of the Board
- Paediatric Surgeon
Roseline Blake served as the the Consul General at Cook Islands Consulate for seven years before her retirement from the position in 2020.
She has represented the Cook Islands extensively as a sportswoman in National, Pacific, World, and Commonwealth events as well as heading Team Cook Islands as the first woman Chef de Mission to two Olympic games. Roseline was awarded the British Empire Medal for outstanding services to community, sports, and church, as well being awarded overall Cook Islands Woman of the year in 2000. Further she was awarded the IOC trophy for Oceania in 2012 and the Olympic order in 2015 - the highest award of the Olympic movement. Rosaline has served on an extensive number of boards including Cook Islands Catholic Diocese, Cook Islands Sports Association, and was Secretary General for CISNOC until retirement. She is a founding member of National Council of Women, and Cook Islands Breast cancer association. She has also served as the Chair for Women in sports, and Catholic National Council of women.