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HPF Wins Bid to Host World Conference in New Zealand

Health Promotion Forum Wins Bid to Host World Conference in New Zealand

The Health Promotion Forum of New Zealand Runanga Whakapiki Ake I Te Hauora o Aotearoa (HPF) has won the bid to host a world health promotion conference in New Zealand in 2019.

The win was announced on May 27 (NZ time) at the closing ceremony of the 22nd world health promotion conference of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) that was held on May 22-27 in Curitiba, Brazil.

“We won because of the guidance and support of our nation’s leaders. IUHPE also saw that New Zealand is willing and able to contribute in leading ways to the major global challenges that the world community faces such as the health of the planet and its peoples,” says HPF Executive Director Sione Tu‘itahi.

IUHPE is an international organisation that leads the on-going advancement of health promotion in the world. HPF is the umbrella body for health promotion organisations in New Zealand, HPF is a member of IUHPE.

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