Healthier Lives – He Oranga Hauora | |
Established | 2015 |
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Dissolved | 2024 |
Type | Research programme |
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Director | Jim Mann |
Budget | $31.26 m NZD |
Funding | MBIE |
Website | healthierlives |
Healthier Lives – He Oranga Hauora was one of New Zealand's eleven collaborative research programmes known as National Science Challenges. Running from 2015 to 2024, the focus of Healthier Lives National Science Challenge research was cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and diabetes in the New Zealand population, encompassing prevention, treatment, and the reduction of health inequity, and including precision medicine techniques, and culturally-centred health programmes for Māori and Pasifika.