Auckland Pacific health initiatives gain research funding
A text message programme to motivate and support healthy behaviour change in Tongan people with pre-diabetes – to help prevent the onset of diabetes – is one of the Pacific Health research initiatives to be funded next year.
The Health Research Council (HRC) has just announced 22 Pacific career development awards for 2017 with nine of those grants made to health researchers at the University of Auckland. Four of these are supporting doctoral research in Pacific Health
