He Pito Mata Meeting with the Royal Society Te Apārangi

Nadi Climate and Health Futures Conference is a two-day hybrid gathering for people working where climate risk, health systems and community resilience meet.

The programme focuses on evidence that can be used quickly: heat and vector-borne disease readiness, disaster recovery, mental wellbeing after extreme weather, and better ways to share data across islands without losing local context.

Participants joining online will be included in plenary questions, moderated working groups and a shared recommendations session. The conference closes with a practical agenda for research partnerships that can support health planning before the next cyclone season.

Honiara Blue Economy Research Conference brings together ocean researchers, coastal community leaders and policy partners for two days of practical work on Pacific-led blue economy priorities.

The conference asks what research is most useful when fisheries, tourism, climate adaptation and community wellbeing are all changing at once. Sessions pair short evidence briefings with talanoa-style working groups so participants can test ideas against local realities.

Online participation is built into the programme, with livestreamed plenaries and moderated digital breakouts for participants joining from across the region. The final session produces a short set of research priorities for circulation to partners after the event.

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Our Strategic Plan 2026 to 2028 and the Mentoring Programme, launched together in one live session, with an overview of the research priorities, the partnerships behind them, and how members can take part across each of the three years ahead.

He Pito Mata brings together early-career Māori and Pacific researchers with fellows of the Royal Society Te Apārangi for two days of shared work. The meeting is built around a simple premise: the people shaping the next generation of Pacific research should be in the same room as the people who can open doors for them, and there should be enough time for those conversations to go somewhere.

Mornings are given to plenary sessions where senior researchers set out how funding, publication and institutional pathways actually work in Aotearoa and across the region. Afternoons move into small groups, where participants workshop their own projects with a mentor and a handful of peers working on adjacent questions.

The meeting closes with a session on what participants need from the Academy over the coming year. What is said there feeds directly into our mentoring programme and our submissions to research funders, so the room shapes the work that follows it.

There is no cost to attend. Travel support is available for participants coming from outside Wellington, and we ask that you indicate this when registering so we can plan accordingly.

Representing the Pacific in the global young-academy movement, hosted by our international partners, this gathering brings together delegates from every member academy to shape the shared agenda for the year ahead and beyond.