KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Hinemoa Elder
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Te Whatu Ora
Dr Hinemoa Elder is of Ngāti Kuri, Te Aupouri, Te Rarawa, Ngāi Takoto and Ngāpuhi descent. She is the mother of two adult children.
Hinemoa has been a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist and Fellow of the Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists since 2006. She has a PhD (2012) and was an HRC Eru Pomare Post-Doctoral Fellow 2014-18.
Hinemoa works in a range of settings, acute perinatal psychiatry, adolescent inpatient psychiatry, neuropsychiatry and youth forensic psychiatry.
Dr Elder has served on a range of boards and committees. She was a member of the Prime Minister’s Science Advisory Committee on Cannabis Law reform in 2019. She has been a deputy psychiatrist member of the NZ Mental Health Review Tribunal since 2012.
Hinemoa has been a member of the Helen Clark Foundation Board since 2021. She is also the Patron of ‘Share My Super’ a charity aimed at eradicating child poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand, also since 2021. Hinemoa is an alumni of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Residency programme 2024.
Hinemoa has written two best-selling books published by Penguin Random House. ‘Aroha. Māori wisdom for a contented life lived in harmony with our planet’, (2020), and ‘Wawata. Moon dreaming. Daily wisdom guided by Hina the Māori moon’, (2022). Aroha was included on the Oprah Winfrey Book club in 2021. Her most recent nook ‘Waitohu’ (2024) is a hautaka or journal. |
