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A Whakatāne mum who arrange a charity along with her husband to
assist help whanāu who’ve a toddler with most cancers has been
awarded a group analysis grant from the Well being Analysis
Council (HRC) to discover Māori views on bone marrow
donation.
Established in reminiscence of her son Chace, the
Dream Chaser Basis is a nationwide registered charity
co-led by Keri Topperwien (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou). Chace
(Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou, Tūhoe) handed away in 2012 at
simply three years of age after a troublesome battle with acute
myeloid leukaemia – an aggressive sort of most cancers of the
blood and bone marrow.
Keri will use her HRC Ngā
Kanohi Kitea Improvement Grant to construct connections and
put together to undertake kaupapa Māori analysis that targets
alternatives for rising the variety of bone marrow
donors in Aotearoa, significantly amongst Māori.
“The
finest likelihood our son Chace had of surviving leukaemia was a
bone marrow transplant to interchange the cancerous cells inside
his bones with donated wholesome marrow,” says
Keri.
“Nevertheless, not like with blood, sure markers
have to align to be a bone marrow match, which means that
Chace’s match was almost definitely going to be from a Māori
donor. On the time, there have been 26 million bone marrow donors
on the worldwide bone marrow registry, nonetheless solely 6000
have been Māori – however none have been a match to our
son.”
Keri says this devastating expertise isn’t
distinctive, however displays a actuality for a lot of Māori, Pacific
Island and different ethnic minority teams looking for a
donor match because of their underrepresentation on the bone
marrow registry.
With the assistance of her analysis mentor
Dr Naomi Simmonds (Raukawa, Ngāti Huri), Keri will
undertake a complete literature evaluate of current
analysis on organ donation from Te Ao Māori and indigenous
views. This can assist help her to develop analysis
questions for a full mission proposal by figuring out
boundaries that could be impacting on bone marrow statistics and
alternatives to extend the variety of bone marrow donors
by reframing how bone marrow is known from a Te Ao
Māori perspective.
She may even set up a bone
marrow advisory group of well being professionals,
organisations, related charities and whānau to share
information and experiences of the bone marrow donation
course of.
Keri hopes to construct on current Māori
analysis on organ donation and believes exploring the
means of bone marrow donation provides wealthy insights into
whakapapa, whānau, spirituality and connection that
distinguishes itself from the broader kaupapa of organ
donation.
“Whereas the sentiment of the ‘reward of
life’ is usually related to the act of donation, the
distinctive genetic ingredient between the bone marrow donor and
recipient weaves collectively the previous, current and future in a
approach that centres Māori id, well being and wellbeing,”
she says.
“For each Māori baby that finds a bone
marrow donor match, there’s a attainable overlap someplace,
as historical as it might be, of family tree. That’s a strong
narrative for speaking to Māori whānau who could have
reservations about bone marrow donation.”
Keri says
that though this analysis has bone marrow donation at its
core, there’s the chance for a number of
offshoots.
“When you begin speaking about bone marrow
donation, it usually results in discussions about most cancers
inequities, blood donations or changing into an organ donor.
These will not be simply accessible conversations; they have to be
supported in the correct context as a result of there’s a
sacredness to those matters. When thought-about by way of the lens
of cultural values resembling whakapapa, manaakitanga, mana and
mauri, it may possibly shift the kōrero from one which has been
closely medicalised by western frameworks to at least one that
allows Māori-led well being options,” says Keri.
HRC
Supervisor of Māori Well being Analysis, Le-Shan Pomana-Wesley
(Ngāti Kahungungu ki te Wairoa) says she is delighted with
the response to this 12 months’s revamped Ngā Kanohi Kitea
Neighborhood Development Fund, which has seen greater than $1.7
million awarded to 12 recipients, with additional recipients
prone to be introduced in early 2023. Many of those
recipients are from Māori group, iwi, hapū or related
organisations that haven’t obtained HRC funding earlier than,
together with Keri Topperwien from the Dream Chaser
Basis.
“Our Ngā Kanohi Kitea Neighborhood
Development Fund is a chance for iwi, hapū, different
Māori organisations, and Māori researchers or analysis
groups to undertake self-identified well being analysis that may
make a direct and vital distinction to the well being and
wellbeing of their communities,” says Ms
Pomana-Wesley.
“This 12 months’s grants cowl a large
vary of areas, together with analysis into the front-line
responses of marae to the COVID-19 pandemic, tikanga-led
approaches to supporting people with mind accidents and
disabilities and their whānau, and creating new
approaches to delivering major care to create extra
responsive and culturally protected techniques for
Māori.”
See under for the complete listing of 2022 Ngā
Kanohi Kitea Neighborhood Development Fund recipients. To learn
lay summaries about any of those analysis proposals, go to
hrc.govt.nz/sources/research-repository and filter by
proposal sort (e.g. ‘Ngā Kanohi Kitea Improvement
Grant’) and 12 months ‘2022’.
2022 Ngā Kanohi Kitea
Neighborhood Development Fund recipients
Ngā
Kanohi Kitea Improvement Grant
Dr Ainsleigh
Cribb-Su’a, Nationwide Hauora
Coalition
Validation of instruments to measure expertise
of whanau engagement
12 Months, $
88,400
Ms Cheryl Davies, Tu Kotahi
Māori Bronchial asthma Belief
Te Pae Tawhiti: Trying on the lie
of the land
12 months, $99,635
Ms Tiana
Mihaere, Unbiased researcher
Maramataka:
The rising of ancestral waters
four months,
$47,310
Ms Keri Topperwien, Dream
Chaser Basis – A Chace Topperwien Charity
The
reward of life – exploring Māori views on bone marrow
donation
eight months, $53,650
Dr Dianne
Wepa, Auckland College of
Know-how
Kaumātua use of digital know-how put up
COVID-19 to satisfy their well being wants
12 months,
$98,133
Ngā Kanohi Kitea Undertaking
Grant
Lily George, Waikare Neighborhood
Improvement & Analysis Belief
Pona Kakā: A
holistic method to arthritis intervention
18
months, $297,782
Ms Rangi Pouwhare,
Mana Ātea
“Te Mana o Taku Reo – Energy of my
voice“
18 months, $300,000
Ms Gina
Waters, Mātai Medical Analysis Institute
The
position of motor fidgeting on govt functioning in
ADHD
24 months, $299,960
Ngā Kanohi Kitea
Coaching Grant
Dr Stephanie Palmer,
Te Whariki Manawahine o Hauraki
Te Whariki Manawāhine
o Hauraki Mahi Raraunga
12 months,
$127,245
Ngā Kanohi Kitea Data Mobilisation
Grant
Mr Levi Armstrong, The Meke
Meter
Mobilising a Māori group
12 months,
$92,900
Dr Nina Scott, Hei Āhuru
Mōwai Māori Most cancers Management
Mātahia mai I te 50,
kei tūreiti. The pathway for indigenous advocacy
12
months, $99,656
Mrs Chrissie Cowan,
Unbiased researcher
Ahakoa kahore mātou i te kite kei
te kite (We could also be blind however we have now imaginative and prescient)
12 months,
$99,250
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