About the District Health Board
Board Members & Profiles |
The election for the current DHB Board members took place on 13 October 2007.
Each DHB has seven elected members for a three year term and four members are appointed by the Minister of Health (MoH).
Counties Manukau DHB Board members (until 2010) are:
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Prof. Gregor Coster (Chairman)*
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Paul Cressey (Deputy Chairman)
* Ministerial appointment.
Board Member Profiles
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Professor
Gregor Coster
(Chairman) In 1995, he was appointed Head of the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care at The University of Auckland where he was awarded the position of the Elaine Gurr Professor of General Practice. In 2005, he was appointed Dean of Graduate Studies at the University and is now responsible for running the University’s doctoral programme. Following five years in hospital practice, Gregor Coster’s early career was in general practice in central, south and west Auckland and included four years at the University’s Trust Health Care general practice in Manurewa. He was Chairman of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners in 1995-1997 and was awarded the FRNZCGP (Dist) in 2006. Professor Coster has an MSc (Hons) from Victoria University of Wellington and an MBChB from the University of Otago. He also holds a PhD in public policy. His research interests have been in the areas of quality of care and health services evaluation research. He was awarded the Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to public health in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2007. His vision for the Counties Manukau District Health Board is that it should provide excellent health services for all, and particularly for those with the greatest health needs.
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Paul
Cressey
(Deputy Chairman) As an Elected Member and once again the Deputy Chairman of the Counties Manukau District Health Board (was also the Deputy Chairman from 2001 to 2004), Paul is proud of the Board’s achievements over this period, particularly in the increased funding received and the reduction in operating costs achieved. But there is more work to do. Paul is committed to improving healthcare for the people of Counties Manukau by applying his energies and experience to:
Paul has over 25 years management and governance experience
directing and leading initiatives in the commercial, community
and health sectors.
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Anne
Candy
QSO JP Anne is of Ngaiterangi, Waikato, English and Scottish descent and have been a resident of Manurewa for more than 30 years. She is currently a Manukau City Councillor for the Manurewa Ward and was previously the Deputy Mayor of Manukau City from 1998 to 2007. Her special interests include being a Life Member of the Maori Women’s Welfare League Inc., Patron Manurewa Returned Services Association, Patron Manukau National Council of Women and Inaugural Recipient Auckland University Business School Mira Szaszy Maori Alumni Award 2003.
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Arthur
Anae Arthur is proud to represent New Zealand's most multicultural City Manukau. His determination as a District Health Board member is to ensure that Health Services provided for the People of Counties/Manukau are second to none and to use all his business knowledge and political experience to ensure that health services are provided equally to all people based on their immediate needs. We have the most diversely populated city in New Zealand and need representation to reflect that. We all need to understand and respect our cultural differences and work together to provide the best services for all our people equally. To do this we need to find ways to keep our most talented people in NZ to provide the services for the People of Counties Manukau. His focus has been on the young and elderly who depend on the political process to be there for them when they need it immediately, the working community should be protecting themselves with tax deductible Medical Insurance, leaving Public Hospital beds for the young and elderly in the first instance.
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Bob
Wichman Bob has been on the CMDHB board for the last 6 years. He believes that CMDHB provides the best medical health care in New Zealand, and is proud to be part of that achievement. He will continue to work to make our level of health care even better. As a Manukau resident, father and grandfather, it is his ambition to ensure that the residents of Counties Manukau will always have the best healthcare available in NZ. Being a non-healthcare professional, he believes that he is able to add an essential outside perspective, something that is extremely important to the balance of any board of directors. He has been a Manukau City Councillor for 14 years, in the past being the Chairman, Economic Development and the Chairman of Corporate Governance.
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Colleen Brown Colleen Brown is a third term Councillor at Manukau City Council. She represents the Manurewa Ward of some 78,000 people. Her background is in education with previous employment being as a Senior Lecturer at Manukau Institute of Technology and the Manager of the Communication Enterprise Section at the Institute. Colleen is passionate about youth and having healthy active children in the community. She is also concerned and active in the elder sector part of the community having supported older family members in the health sector. Colleen's special interests lie in the disability sector where she chairs the Parent and Family Resource Centre Board in Onehunga. She has been involved with many different facets of the disability sector ranging from setting up informal support groups for parents to running lobby groups and chairing the following organisations: The New Zealand Down Syndrome Association, The Coalition of Parents for Special Education. Colleen's particular interest is in policy, especially how it is made and implemented. She has contributed to a number of New Zealand and international publications on policy implementation in New Zealand and the impact of having a disabled son as part of a family. She has been involved with taking section 10 Appeals against the Ministry of Education under the Education Act as a volunteer advocate for parents and their disabled children.
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Donald
Barker He has been a community pharmacist all his working life and together with his experience as a director of a number of pharmaceutical support companies, he offers experience in the fields of health, business and the communities needs. In the community he is a Past President of Waiuku Golf & Squash Club, a trustee of the West Franklin Health & Community Trust, a past Chair of the Waiuku College Board, a past Commodore of Waiuku Yacht Club and a past Board member of Enterprise Franklin. He is currently a member of the Institute of Directors and a Justice of the Peace.
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Michael Williams
Michael Williams is a
Chartered Accountant with 22 years experience including 6
years in the Health Sector.
Michael was brought up in
Pakuranga, lives in Howick with his wife and four young
children and represents Botany/Clevedon as a Manukau City
Councillor. He was previously the Chairman of the Botany
Community Board.
Michael is passionate about
continuous improvement and maximising value for money.
He is Chairman of the Finance,
Risk and Audit Committee for the Counties Manukau District
Health Board.
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Lope Ginnen Lope Ginnen is a barrister practising mainly family law. She is frequently appointed as lawyer for children in Family Court proceedings, particularly in cases that have family violence or child protection aspects. She is the Deputy Chair of Housing New Zealand Corporation and chairs that Board’s Assurance Committee. She is a trustee of Brainwave Trust, a charity that raises public awareness of brain research about the importance of early experiences on infant brain development. Lope is of Samoan and Pakeha descent.
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Ruth
DeSouza Ruth DeSouza works at AUT University where she is a senior research fellow Co-ordinating both the Centre for Asian and Migrant Health Research and a Graduate Diploma in Addictions. In her spare time she is a PhD student exploring the maternity experiences of migrant mothers and the responses of health professionals. She is a researcher and educator with experience drawn from a background in mental health nursing, teaching and counselling. Ruth is actively involved in community activities and is the co-ordinator of the Aotearoa Ethnic Network (AEN) and editor of the AEN Journal, a Councillor of the New Zealand Asian Studies Society, board member of the Asia New Zealand Foundation, member of the Waitakere City Council Mayoral Task Force on Family Violence, Deputy Chair of the West Auckland Living Skills Homes Trust Inc (WALSH Trust), Executive committee member of the Refugee Council of New Zealand and member of the International Marcē Society and the New Zealand Co-Coordinator for Postpartum Support International. Ruth has also recently been appointed to the Editorial Boards of the Journal Diversity in Health and Social Care and Transcultural Nursing. Ruth is passionate about equitable access to quality health care.
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Miria
Andrews Profile to be added soon.
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Published: 15-Jul-2009 | Website enquiries: Web Content Manager