Breakfast with Health NZ CEO, Margie Apa

Presentation

Speaker(s): Margie Apa
Date: 7:00am — 9:00am, 7 August 2024
Venue: The Northern Club
Location: 19 Princes Street, Auckland
Price members: $75.00 incl GST
Price non-members: $129.00 incl GST

Overview

In recent years, under successive governments, the public health sector has gone through many changes. Health New Zealand is responsible for the planning and commissioning of health services as well as the functions of the 20 former district health boards. With an estimated 80,000 employees, Health New Zealand is New Zealand's biggest employer.

CEO, Margie Apa will offer a ‘state of the nation’ update from the health sector – the health sector reforms, health and wellbeing improvements, and unique governance challenges.

Margie Apa

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Margie is the Chief Executive of Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand. She has more than two decades of health-sector leadership experience, previously serving as CEO of Counties Manukau District Health Board, the first Samoan to lead a district health board in New Zealand. She also served as Deputy Director-General Sector Capability and Implementation at the Ministry of Health.

Margie graduated from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in management and employment relations and, also has a Master of Public Administration (Executive) from Victoria University.

She has been on the Board of World Vision New Zealand since 2011 and was appointed Chair of the Board in 2019. Margie is an active member of the Pacific Island Presbyterian community and carries the honorific title Fepulea’i from her family village of Sale’aula, Savai’I in Samoa.

Additional information

Covid-19 precautions

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