Day One: Thursday, 25 November 2004

Powhiri and Conference Opening and Introduction

Conference Opening – Rt Hon Helen Clark, Prime Minister

Keynote Address - Race and Ethnicity in Public Policy - The New Zealand Experience

Professor Mason Durie, Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Maori) and Professor of Maori Research and Development, Massey University

Morning Tea

Concurrent Sessions - 1

1. Public Good Research Meets Policy and Practice
2. Social Capital
3. Measuring Dynamics and Integrating Data
4. Capacity Building and Communities
5. What Works – Youth
6. Duncan McLennan on Housing Policy
7. What Works – Disability

Lunch

Keynote Address - First Nations Peoples in Canada: The best caregivers for First Nations Children and Youth

Cindy Blackstock, Executive Director, First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada. Ottowa, Canada

Concurrent Sessions - 2

1. Incomes
2. Best Practice Research & Evaluation
3. Census Data
4. Improving Educational Outcomes
5. Primary Health Care
6. Social Indicators
7. Promoting Healthier Lifestyles
8. What Works – Children

Afternoon Tea

Keynote Address - "What Works?"

Helen Roberts, Professor of Child Health, City University, London, UK

Welcome Drinks

Sponsored by Colmar Brunton

Day Two: Friday, 26 November 2004

Hon Pete Hodgson, Minister Research, Science and Technology

Keynote Address - Towards more and better jobs

Raymond Torres, Head of the Employment Analysis and Policy Division, OECD, Paris, Fance

Keynote Address - Key social policy issues facing the US and American Samoa

Congressman Faleomavaega Eni Hunkin, Member of Congress, Democrat - American Samoa

Keynote Address - Tackling socioeconomic inequalities in health: an overview of European experiences

Johan Mackenbach, Chair, Department of Public Health, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Morning Tea

Concurrent sessions - 3

1. Employment
2. Tertiary Education Capability Development
3. Sustainable Community Development
4. What Works – Pasifika
5. Methods
6. Housing Affordability
7. What Works – Families
8. Mortality
   

Lunch

Concurrent sessions - 4

1. Getting the Evidence for New Zealand Policy
2. Migration
3. Family Violence
4. What Works – Maori
5. Collaboration in Practice
6. Achieving Work / Life Balance
7. Community, Culture, Housing
8. Mental Health
   

Afternoon Tea

Closing Panel Discussion

Conference Closing

Poroporoaki

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