CHAMPIONING PUBLIC HEALTH SOCIAL WORK IN AOTEAROA

AuthorS: TRACEY WALLACE-HUTCHINS AND MARCUS TAMAIRA

📢 A Call for Equity and Systems Change

Public Health Social Work (PHSW) is emerging as a powerful, equity-driven discipline in Aotearoa New Zealand, offering an essential bridge between individual wellbeing and structural transformation. In this 2025 think piece, Championing Public Health Social Work Practitioners in Aotearoa New Zealand, we argue that PHSW must be recognised as a unique and vital force within the wider public health ecosystem—especially as our country grapples with widening mental health inequities, ongoing reform fatigue, and the need for Te Tiriti-based approaches.

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