Danielle Prapavessis
BSc (Hons)
PhD Topic:
The role of youth empowerment interventions in Pasifika communities to co-develop community-based interventions that encourage healthy lifestyles and the reduction of prediabetes. Research involves implementing and testing an original youth empowerment programme in two Pasifika communities and assessing the long-term uptake through a model of social change.
Principal Supervisor:
Professor Barry Borman, Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University
Co-Supervisor:
Pacific Health Senior Research Fellow, Ridvan Firestone, Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University
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Prapavessis D.
(2020). Synergising youth empowerment and co-design to transform Pasifika youth into agents of social change : a novel approach to advance healthy lifestyles in Pasifika communities. A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health (PhD), Massey University, Wellington, NZ.
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Tupai-Firestone R,
Faeamani G,
Okiakiama E,
Funaki T,
Henry A,
Prapavessis D,
Filikitonga J,
Firestone J,
Tiatia-Sheath J,
Matheson A,
Brown B,
Schleser M,
Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula J,
Townsend Ing C,
Borman B,
Ellison-Loschmann L.
Pasifika Prediabetes Youth Empowerment Programme: learnings from a youth-led community-based intervention study. NZMJ, 2021; 134(1530): 57-68.
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