Beyond the Healthy Migrant Effect : Special Issue Launch

Date & Time:
Thursday, 13 November 2025
12:00 –  1:15 PM (Auckland / Wellington time)

Format:
Online Webinar

About the Webinar

Drawing on the recent Special Issue published in Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences — “Beyond the Healthy Migrant Effect” — this webinar brings together researchers offering new perspectives on health related to New Zealand’s diverse ethnic and migrant populations. Following short presentations from each speaker, there will be time for Q&A.

Please RSVP here

Speakers

• Roshini Peiris-John  –  Introduction & Welcome

• Rodrigo Ramalho – What is the Healthy Migrant Effect and why is it insufficient?

• Rachel Tapera  –  Ethnic Health Epistemologies

• Pritika Narayan –  Colonisation and health of Indo-Fijian communities

• Naomi Simon-Kumar –  Intersectionality in ethnic minority youth health

• Andrea Edwards –  Place and the healthy migrant

• Vartika Sharma – Cultural practices, agency and women’s maternal health

• Shamsul Shah – Conceptualising the dying as part of migrant health

• Rachel Simon-Kumar –  Theorising in the aftermath of the Healthy Migrant  

Hosted by

The Centre for Asian Health Research and Evaluation (CAHRE)
School of Population Health, Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland