Rawiri Jansen

Masks are now only needed in health or aged care facilities, vaccine requirements for travellers have been dropped, and isolation for household contacts of Covid cases has been axed.

Te Aka Whai Ora… Audio

National Māori Pandemic group co-leader and Māori health leader Dr Rawiri Jansen says the prospect of Covid-19 restrictions easing fills him with a sense of doom.

He told Morning Report Māori are the… Audio

A health expert who will front a Waikato Mongrel Mob vaccination event next week says there is a duty of care to help inform all New Zealanders.

Te Rōpū Whakakaupapa Urutā (the National Maori… Audio

Panellists Heather Roy and David Slack discuss the government's vaccine drive, Facebook and the importance of hugs. Audio

Covid-19 vaccination rates among Māori are only about two-thirds of those of the general population, a figure which is worrying health officials.

Only 55 percent of Māori have had their first dose… Audio

Vaccination rates for Maori are being described as dismal, compared with non- Maori and the race is on to get them vaccinated as fast as possible. According to this week's figures 51 percent… Audio

People on the vaccination frontline in Auckland want all 250,000 of the government's bonus Pfizer doses to come to the city.

The extra doses from Spain have brought in to tide the country through… Audio

People who may have been given mostly saline instead of the Pfizer vaccine at the Highbrook Vaccination Centre in July.

RNZ has revealed that five people may have received a harmless saline injection… Audio

The vaccination roll out is in full swing but some Māori are still lagging behind. 156,000 Māori have received their first dose, with 92,000 fully vaccinated. That compares to 2.78 million doses… Audio

The report says any loosening at the borders will rely on a very high vaccine uptake -- perhaps 100-percent of us. Māni Dunlop spoke to co-chair of the Te Rōpū Whakakaupapa Urutā, or Māori pandemic… Audio

Kathryn canvasses reaction from the health sector with Dr Rawiri Jansen, a member the Māori pandemic group, Te Rōpū Whakakaupapa Urutā ; Sarah Dalton from the Association of Salaried Medical… Audio

Funding to rapidly train non-clinical workers to help administer the Covid-19 vaccine to Māori communities is being described as a drop in the bucket.

Māori health providers have been consistently… Audio

It's V-Day today - the start of the vaccination campaign against Covid-19. 

Those vaccinating the border workers will get the jab today, then the border workforce from Saturday, followed by the… Audio

The National Māori Pandemic Group says it is putting the protection of Māori at the centre of the rollout of the covid-19 vaccination.

Te Ropu Whakakaupapa Uruta has previously criticised the… Audio

A group of medical experts say the way diabetes is treated in New Zealand is racist - but a solution at hand.

The co-authors of an editorial in the New Zealand Medical Journal, published today, are… Audio

Auckland has opened more pop-up sites, bringing the total number of community testing centres to fifteeen, as the demand for testing soars. T

here are four permanent sites in Northcote, Eden Terrace… Audio

Emma Espiner goes to Porirua to meet the Wallace whānau and hear about a night in ED that changed their lives. Audio

There's been a dramatic spike in the number of Wellington children in hospital with the dangerous disease rheumatic fever.

A public health alert has been issued, with Covid-19 testing centres ordered… Audio