Day 2 Live Keynote Address – “Human Rights, Social Justice, Scholar Activism”
Presenter: Professor Jolan Hsieh (Taiwan)
Chair: Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora (Aotearoa, NZ)
Day 3 Live Keynote Address – “Indigenous data science, digital tools and language regeneration”
Presenter: Peter-Lucas Jones, Te Aupōuri, Ngāi Takoto, Ngāti Kahu
(Aotearoa, NZ)
Maybelle McLeod is the CEO of Kimihauora Health & Research Clinic, based at Tamapahore Marae in Tauranga Moana. She is a trained nurse and using her knowledge in this space was one of four lead whānau researchers who worked collaboratively with cancer genetic researchers at the University of Otago to discover the cause of so many deaths in the McLeod whānau – a variation in the CDH1 gene.