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Disability Support Advisory Committee


The Disability Support Advisory Committee advises the Board on the disability support needs of Waikato people and advocates for those with disabilities.
Committee Agendas
Board & Committee meeting dates

DSAC Members

Commitments

Pippa Mahood
Pippa Mahood - Chair
  • Profile
  • Disability Support Advisory Committee (chair)
  • Trustee of Waikato Health Trust (chair)
  • Community and Public Health Advisory Committee
  • Attendee at Iwi Maori Council
Clyde Wade
Clyde Wade
  • Profile
  • Health Waikato Advisory Committee
  • Community and Public Health Advisory Committee
  • Disability Support Advisory Committee

David Slone
David Slone
  • Employee CSC Buying Group
  • Director and Shareholder Weasel Words Ltd
  • Trustee NZ Williams Syndrome Association
  • Contract work for NZ Rural Health Institute, which has a relationship with Waikato DHB
  • Wife employed by CCS Disability Action and Salvation Army Home Care, both of which receive health funding.
Ewan Wilson
Ewan Wilson
  • Profile
  • Health Waikato Advisory Committee
  • Community and Public Health Advisory Committee
  • Disability Support Advisory Committee
Fungai Mhlanga
Fungai Mhlanga
  • Employer, Hamilton Multicultural Services Trust has been funded to deliver healthy eating and physical activities by Waikato DHB for 2011-2012
  • Member, Public Health Association.
Graeme Milne
Graeme Milne
  • Profile
  • Campus Redevelopment Advisory Committee (chair)
  • Remuneration Committee (chair)
  • Health Waikato Advisory Committee
  • Community and Public Health Advisory Committee
  • Disability Support Advisory Committee
  • Audit and Risk Management Committee
Martin Gallagher
Martin Gallagher
  • Profile
  • Community and Public Health Advisory Committee
  • Disability Support Advisory Committee
  • Campus Redevelopment Advisory Committee

Ross Lawrenson
Ross Lawrenson
  • Professor, University of Auckland
  • Chair, National Screening Advisory Committee to the Ministry
  • Deputy Chair, New Zealand Guidelines Group
  • Member, Health Waikato Prevocational Education Committee
  • Member, Midland Clinical Services Planning Group
  • Chair, Health Workforce New Zealand Midland Training Network
  • Member, Waikato Postgraduate Medical Information Group
  • Member, Waikato DHB Workforce Advisory Board
  • Council Member, Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine
  • Board Member, Rural GP Network
  • Trustee, Waikato Health Memorabilia Trust
  • Member, New Zealand Society for the Study of Diabetes.
Sally Christie
Sally Christie
  • Profile
  • Community and Public Health Advisory Committee (chair)
  • Health Waikato Advisory Committee
  • Disability Support Advisory Committee
  • Audit and Risk Management Committee
  • Campus Redevelopment Advisory Committee
  • Remuneration Committee
Sharon Mariu  Sharon Mariu
  • Profile
  • Health Waikato Advisory Committee (chair)
  • Disability Support Advisory Committee
  • Audit and Risk Management Committee
  • Attendee at Iwi Maori Council

Janise Eketone
  • General Manager of the Maniapoto Maori Trust Board
  • Maniapoto Maori Trust Board appointee to the Waikato DHB Iwi/Maori Council.

John McIntosh
  • Senior Leader, LIFE Unlimited Charitable Trust. A national Health & Disability Service Provider, contracts to Ministry of Health. (Currently no Waikato DHB contracts)
  • Director, Manawanui InCharge (Individualised Funding). Funded nationally via Ministry of Health
  • Coordinator, SPAN Trust. A mechanism for distribution of specialised funding from Ministry of Health in Waikato.
  • Trustee, Waikato Health and Disability Expo Trust.

Wayne McLean
  • CEO Raukura Hauora O Tainui Trust
  • Chairman, Hauora Waikato
  • Member, Iwi Maori Council
  • Member, National Hauora Coalition PHO
  • Appointed member of Audit and Risk Committee of Te Wananga O Aotearoa
  • Chair, Hauora Waikato Maori Mental Health
  • North Waikato PHO is a current member of the National Coalition of Maori PHOs
  • Raukura Hauora O Tainui is one of eight providers of the Tainui Whanau Ora (Koi Ora) collective
  • My tribal affiliation is Ngati Mahanga of Waikato iwi
  • Party to Treaty of Waitangi Claim WAI 1315
  • Member, Whānau Ora Collective Koi Ora.

Aims:

  • advise the Board on the disability support needs of the Waikato DHB’s resident population

  • advocate for people with disabilities

  • advise the Board on the kinds of disability support services that the Waikato DHB has provided or funded, or could provide or fund, to promote the inclusion and participation in society, and to maximise the independence, of the people with disabilities within Waikato DHB’s resident population

  • advise the Board on policies it has adopted, or could adopt.
    The advice must reflect the aims and objectives of the New Zealand Disability Strategy

Waikato DHB appoints new committee members

Page last updated on 18/10/2011