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Neurodevelopment Network - Lunch & Learn

8 October 2024

Neurodevelopment Network - Lunch & Learn NZ Series

Le Taualuga o Tausiga (the epitome of care):
In search of Samoan cultural safety in Physiotherapy

12pm - 12.30pm  |  Tuesday 8 October, 2024  |  Hosted on Zoom

Guest Speaker: Oka Sanerivi, University of Otago

In this session, Oka Sanerivi, PhD Candidate from the University of Otago will discuss Cultural safety in Physiotherapy (and health) service delivery.

This will be followed up with a knowledge translation session in November. 

Oka is a Samoan/Tongan Physiotherapy clinician, manager, Director and emerging researcher. Oka has recently submitted his PhD in Physiotherapy. His doctoral research explored clinical cultural safety for Samoan families. Oka lives in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa/Gisborne, with his wife, four children, a puppy, two lambs and eight chickens, on an orange orchard. 

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