Pacific Heartbeat Team
The Pacific Heartbeat team works with the Heart Foundation to 'STOP New Zealanders dying too early from heart disease', and 'HELP people with heart disease live full and productive lives’.
We focus on the heart health needs of NZ’s Pacific Island population. This includes understanding your heart, eating well, being smokefree and being more active.
Through our Pacific nutrition courses we enourage Pacific people to make heart healthy food choices and move more to achieve and maintain a healthy weight. We promote the benefits of being smokefree and encourage Pacific smokers to stop smoking and to not take it up in the first place.
Our team is based in Auckland and Wellington. We collaborate with other Pacific organisations to create environments which support healthy lifestyles.
Mafi Funaki-Tahifote
Manager - Pacific Health
Jill Causer
PA/Administrator - Pacific Heartbeat
Nini Knight
PHB Programme Administrator
Sue Pirrit
PHB Nutritionist
Takui Langi
PHB Nutrition Trainer
Satali Auvae
PHB Nutrition Training Facilitator
Maggie Fung
Programme Evaluation Advisor & Analyst
