About the trust

The Health Navigator Charitable Trust (HNCT) works to ensure everyone in Aotearoa New Zealand has easy access to high quality, culturally acceptable health information, tools and resources. It also makes life easier for health professionals working with patients and clients in the pursuit of shared decision making and self-determination.

HNCT focuses on health literacy, self-management support and promoting self-management skills. It founded, and continues to run, the popular Healthify He Puna Waiora website (formerly known as Health Navigator NZ), and co-creates a range of other high-quality tools and resources.

An important part of HNCT's mahi is working with others to make any door the right door for people wanting to improve their, or their whānau's, health: at the click of a button, scan of a code or swipe of a screen, it should be possible to quickly access what is needed to lead healthier lives.

Read our Health Navigator Charitable Trust blueprint [PDF, 14 MB] to find out more about who we are and what we do.

In 2005, a group of New Zealand health professionals, managers and members of the public established a self-management network to act as a forum for collaboration about self-management support for people with long-term conditions.

The network, led by Dr Janine Bycroft, soon identified the need for a coordinated source of reliable health information and self-help resources to curb the duplication and fragmentation of online health information.

In July 2008, the Health Navigator Charitable Trust was registered with the Charities Commission in New Zealand to build and run the first Health Navigator NZ website, which went live in December 2008. 

As well as the Healthify He Puna Waiora website, the trust offers a range of other products to New Zealanders and the health professionals who care for them. You can read more about them under Our mahi.

Our Board of Trustees provides guidance and strategic advice.

Janine Bycroft CEO, Health Navigator Charitable Trust MBChB, Dip Obs, Dip Paeds, MPH (Hons), FRNZCGP (Dist)	Bram Kukler Chair, Health Navigator Charitable Trust Director Strategy and Innovation, Harbour Hospice MBS: Management; Dip. Social Sciences: Psychology, RN
Scott Arrol Senior Executive & Director | Health, Disability, Social, For Profit, NFP & Charitable Sectors MBA (Dist), MinstD	Julia Ebbett Community Nurse Manager, Te Taiwhenua o Heretaunga MPHC, PgDip PHC, PgDip HSM, BN, FCNA(NZ)
Jodi Mitchell Executive Chairperson, MoleMap	Andrew Skinner Director, Urlich Milne Lawyers LLB, (1st Class Hons), BCom
Alison van Wyk Executive General Manager ProPharma, RN	Tony Wai CEO Third Age Health

We have several great teams working both for the Health Navigator Charitable Trust (HNCT) and Healthify. Meet those behind the scenes of HNCT.

Janine Bycroft CEO, Clinical Director MBChB, Dip Obs, Dip Paeds, MPH (Hons), FRNZCGP (Dist)	Rochelle Doyle Operations Manager NZDipBusMngt, NZIMCertMngt, NZDipBusMktg, NZDipBusTsm, NZCertReo(L4)
Olivia Hadlow Marketing & Communications Assistant Bachelor of Communication Studies Registered Clinical Nutritionist	Karōria Johns Ngapuhi, Te Rarawa Partnerships and Community Development Lead, WOVEN advisor
Frances King Ngāti Porou Project Manager, WOVEN Manager and Cultural Advisory Group Liaison RCPN, PG Dip HSc	Merle Mapuna Samuels Ngai-te-rangi Māori Cultural Advisor
Renee Schick Marketing & Communications Specialist BA (hons), GradDip Marketing, MLIS	Fa’aulu Tomuli-Afoa Community Engagement and Partnerships (Pacific Peoples), Project Coordinator, WOVEN advisor BA Bus. Psychology
Sarah Travaglia Project Director NZRCN, Dip Comp.Nursing, Dip Mgmt Studies, Dip Health (Case Mgmt), Certified Change Mgmt Practitioner (APMG International)

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