Projects
January 2009: HIV Programme Manager, World Vision Pacific Development Group. Based in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, and offering technical expertise to offices in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Designed HIV & gender-based violence project for Bougainville, wrote the Expression of Interest for WVPDG’s GFATM Round Nine submission, worked with the PNG CCM to quality assess the draft submission, and managed HIV-prevention and positive living project coordinators working in the National Capital District and Madang province.
September 2007: HIV-AIDS Program Capacity Advisor, Provincial AIDS Committee, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. HIV Capacity Building project funded by AusAID, in cooperation with the government of Papua New Guinea, CUSO and AVI.
May – August 2007: International Articulation Advisor, Tupou Tertiary Institute, Nuku’alofa, Tonga. Project Mission: assist TTI to establish an Articulation Agreement with Hawaii Pacific University (HPU) and University of Hawai’i at West O’ahu (UHWO).
Jan – June 2007: Scholar-Facilitator, Kapi’olani Hospital, Honolulu, Hawai’i, for the inaugural offering (in Hawai’i) of the Literature &Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care® programe by the Hawaii Council for the Hummanities. This is a national, award-winning, hospital-based and scholar-led humanities reading and discussion program for health care professionals. It has been found to benefit both care professionals and their patients. Funded by the Hawai’i Council for the Humanities.
Jan – May 2007 . Grants Writer and Strategist, South Seas Women’s Development Group. Project director, Mrs. Emeline Keiti Fusimalohi. Current project: Royal Lauhala for Queen Emma’s Summer Palace, Honolulu, Hi. SSWDG received $40,000 to produce new pandanus floor mats for the museum. Mats will be woven from pandanus processed on Ha’ano, Ha’apai, and plaited in Tonga under the direction of the princess Nanasi Pau’u. Completed mats will be imported to O’ahu, for final fitting by Pacific islands women living in Hawai’i. Project start date: April 2007.
2005-present: Cultural advisor for ECOcare Pacific Trust. Sustainable development, education and health oriented NGO, based in New Zealand.
2003-2004: University of Hawai’i Faculty Senate initiated research into affordable housing and budget oversight.
1999-2000: Community-based cultural revitalization project involving traditional textile skills development with Métis women and at-risk street youth. Funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.
2000: Steering Committee of the Rural, Northern and Remote Health Conference, reporting to the federal Minister of Health.
1995-1996: Applied anthropological research on perceptions of risk among sport fishers and urban poor, fishing in and consuming from polluted watersheds, for Health Canada.
July 1991 – Feb 1993: Maternal-Child Health Practices. International Development and Research Centre (Canada) funded research in rural Tonga. Project examined the intersections of women’s work, international health promotion agendas, cultural constructions of health and mothers’ child care practices in a relatively isolated atoll community.
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