Assosciate Professor Teuila Percival

QSO, MBChB, FRACP

Associate Professor Teuila Percival - Moana Connect

Associate Professor Teuila Percival is the Principal Investigator of the Au – Pacific Child Wellbeing project. Teuila is an Associate Professor at the University of Auckland and is a consultant Paediatrician at the Kidz First Children’s hospital. Teuila holds several leadership roles including director of Moana Connect, chair of the South Seas Healthcare Trust and serves on several government health advisory groups. Teuila also has vast experience in research primarily in the areas of Pacific health, child health, rheumatic heart disease and respiratory health.

What is your vision for Pacific Child Wellbeing?

Children who are loved and thriving in our families and communities, feeling that they belong and are valued surrounded by an environment that we care for and that cares for them I think the Yanuca Declaration from the Pacific Islands Ministers of Health Meeting in 1999 epitomises my vision for children “Children are nurtured in body and mind Environments invite learning and leisure People work and age with dignity Ecological balance is a source of pride And the ocean which sustains us is protected "