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Through her roles as co-chair of the Te Whatu Ora Waikato Clinical Equity Leadership, Waikato Clinical Procedures Committee and member of the Board of Clinical Governance Myra has provided strategic direction and led local and regional service planning efforts, resulting in significant equity gain. She co-led the design and implementation of a Kaupapa M\u0101ori service at Te Whatu Ora Waikato working collaboratively with M\u0101ori leaders, kaim\u0101naki (patient navigators), patients, wh\u0101nau (family) and the organisation, to address waitlist inequities in planned care services.<\/p>\n
She serves as a board member of Hei Ahuru Mowai (M\u0101ori Cancer Leadership Aotearoa) and is the Clinical Equity Lead at Te Aho o Te Kahu (The Cancer Agency).<\/p>\n
Myra\u2019s leadership is also evident in her current PhD research project, co-designing and implementing a M\u0101ori led Cancer service in Te Whatu Ora Waikato. Her commitment to advancing equity and culturally safe practices in cancer research is further demonstrated through collaboration with Cancer Trials New Zealand and Hei Ahuru Mowai and her role as equity research advisor for CAR-T cell therapy research at the Malaghan Institute, Wellington.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_module=”1298″ saved_tabs=”all” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_post_nav _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” title_text_color=”#303F9F” global_colors_info=”{}” title_text_color__hover_enabled=”on|hover” title_text_color__hover=”#9F303F”][\/et_pb_post_nav][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||true|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||true|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/meeting.anztct.org.au\/2024\/speakers\/” button_text=”Back to Speakers page” button_alignment=”center” disabled_on=”off|off|off” _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” custom_button=”on” button_text_color=”#9F303F” button_border_color=”#9F303F” button_border_radius=”100px” button_use_icon=”off” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” button_bg_color__hover_enabled=”on|desktop” button_bg_color__hover=”#9F303F” button_bg_enable_color__hover=”on” button_text_color__hover_enabled=”on|hover” button_text_color__hover=”#ffffff” button_border_color__hover_enabled=”off|desktop”][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Clinical Equity Lead, Te Whatu Ora Waikato, Te Manawa Taki region and Te Aho o Te Kahu \u2013 Cancer Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"2880","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speaker"],"yoast_head":"\n