Healthy Families NZ was established with a clear and ambitious purpose: to prevent chronic disease and improve health and wellbeing by changing the systems that shape our everyday lives.   Rather than focusing on individual behaviour, we work to transform the environments, policies and norms that influence health and wellbeing where we live, learn, work and play.  Across New Zealand, our location teams' partner with communities and local leaders to address the drivers of poor

Imagine if our health system truly listened. If every whānau felt seen, valued, and supported, not just by compassionate individuals, but by a system designed to uphold their mana. Imagine a future where healthcare wasn’t something done to  people, but something created with  them. That is the vision driving the mahi with Healthy Families Whanganui, Rangitīkei, Ruapehu. In a world grappling with complex and persistent social challenges, climate crisis, intergenerational pover

Healthy Families NZ responds to the Public Health Advisory Committee's vision for future wellbeing. We're not just planting trees, we are...

In communities across Aotearoa, people are coming together to spark change through innovation. Working alongside these communities is the...

Across Aotearoa, communities are reimagining their relationship with kai — drawing on deep knowledge, lived experience, and collective...

In a recent article, Anna Matheson, Associate Professor discusses the limitations of 'data-driven’ policies and highlights successful...

The power of partnership creating play opportunities in Tairāwhiti Healthy Families East Cape recognises that in order to shift the...

Healthier rewards and a pro-water movement for tamariki and whānau Healthy Families Hutt Valley has been driving the ‘All Star of the...

Supporting young people in care to participate in quality sport and physical activity opportunities More and more children in Aotearoa...

How pūrākau is inspiring new ways to play in our kura   Tamariki spend up to 15 years of their childhood in school. A person’s physical...