Gavin Faeamani
MPH, MAP (Professional Accounting), BSc, PGDipApStat, DipGrad
PhD Topic:
Lifestyle Program for Pacific - Research is aimed at the prevention of CVD risk morbidity by implementing a programme that will be tailored to reduce CVD risk and the co-existence of prediabetes in Pacific communities.
Principal Supervisor:
Dr Ridvan Firestone, Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University
Co-Supervisor:
Dr Sunia Foliaki, Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University
Assoc. Prof Nia Aitaoto, Centre for Pacific Islander Health, University of Utah
- Publications
- Current Research Projects
- Research Interests
PUBLICATIONS
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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: evaluating a co-designed community-based intervention from a participants’ perspective. Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online. 2021; 16: 210-224. | Journal |
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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. | Journal |
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| Land M, Webster J, Ma G, Li M, Su'a S, Ieremia M, Viali S, Faeamani G, Bell C, Quested C, Neal B, Eastman C. Salt Intake and Iodine Status of Women in Samoa. Asia Pacific J Clin Nutr, 2016; 5(1): 142-149. | Journal |
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| Webster J, Su'a S, Bompoint M, Johnson C, Faeamani G, Vaiaso M, Snowdon W, Land M, Trieu K, Viali S, Moodie M, Bell C, Neal B, Woodward M. Salt intakes, knowledge, and behavior in Samoa: Monitoring salt‐consumption patterns through the World Health Organization's Surveillance of Noncommunicable Disease Risk Factors (STEPS). Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 2016; 18(9):884-91. | Journal |
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| Petersen S, Swinburn B, Mavoa H, Fotu K, Tupoulahi-Fusimalohi C, Faeamani G, Moodie M. Low health-related quality of life in school-aged children in Tonga, a lower-middle income country in the South Pacific. Global Health Action, 2014; 7:24896. | Journal |
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| Teevale T, Scragg R, Faeamani G, Utter J. Pacific Parents' Rationale for Purchased School Lunches and Implications for Obesity Prevention. Asia Pacific J Clin Nutr, 2012; 21(2): 282-290. | Journal |
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| Utter J, Scragg R, Robinson E, Warbrick J, Faeamani G, Foroughian S, Dewes O, Moodie M, Swinburn B. Evaluation of the Living 4 Life project: a youth‐led, school‐based obesity prevention study. Obesity Reviews,2011; 12(S2): 51-60. | Journal |
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| Teevale T, Thomas D, Scragg R, Faeamani G, Nosa V. The Role of Sociocultural Factors in Obesity Aetiology in Pacific Adolescents and their Parents: A Mixed-Methods Study in Auckland, New Zealand. NZ Med J, 2010; 123(1326): 26. | Journal |
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| McCabe M, Fotu K, Mavoa H, Faeamani G. Body image and body change strategies among Tongan adolescents in Tonga and New Zealand. NZ Med J, 2010; 123(1326): 37. | Journal |
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| Utter J, Faeamani G, Malakellis M, Vanualailai N, Kremer P, Scragg R, Swinburn B. (2008). Lifestyle and Obesity in South Pacific Youth : Baseline Results from the Pacific Obesity Prevention in Communities (OPIC) Project in New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga and Australia. | Reports |
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CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Lifestyle Program for Pacific
Key words: Cardiovascular Disease, Pre-diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Diabetes, Pacific Health, Lifestyle, Morbidity
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cardiovascular Disease, Pre-diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Diabetes, Pacific Health, Lifestyle, Morbidity
