Announcing our keynote speaker
We're privileged to be able to reveal that our opening address for this year's conference will be delivered by:
Professor Bev Lawton
New Zealander of the Year 2025
Professor Lawton is the founder & director of Te Tātai Hauora o Hine (the National Centre for Women’s Health Research Aotearoa) at Victoria University of Wellington.
Named the 2025 New Zealander of the Year, she was appointed an Officer of the NZ Order of Merit by the Queen for services to women’s health in 2005 and was made a Distinguished Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 2017.
She is the recipient of multiple other awards, including the Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Māori Women’s Health Award in 2020; the 2021 Women of Influence Award (Innovation, Science and Health); The Beaven Medal by the Health Research Council in 2023; and The Maarire Goodall Award by Te Ohu Rata o Aotearoa in 2024.