Chee Ng is the Professor and Healthscope Chair of Psychiatry at The Melbourne Clinic and The University of Melbourne. He is also Director of WHO Collaborating Centre in Mental Health at St Vincent’s Melbourne. Chee has considerable research experience in mood and anxiety disorders, psychopharmacology, schizophrenia, old age, and cross cultural psychiatry. He has published over 250 original articles in peer-reviewed journals and more than 25 book chapters, and is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Asia-Pacific Psychiatry Journal. He previously led the Asia-Pacific Community Mental Health Development Project involving 18 Asia-Pacific countries. He also served as international mental health consultant for WHO, the Commonwealth of Nations and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). He is currently an Executive Committee Member of the APEC Mental Health Digital Hub and President-Elect of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists.

APEC

Ko te Wānanga Mahi Tahi o Āhia-Kiwa-Kiwa (APEC) he whakahaere ā ihu whenua ā-rohe e 21 nga rangatiratanga o ngā mema o te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa* e whai ana ki te whakatoko i te tupu tautoko, te hokohoko koreutu me te āheitanga o te ohanga. Ko te APEC ko te kāinga ki ngā tāngata e 2.8 miriona nō ngā tikanga rerenga kē, āhua 57% o ngā KŪK o te ao me ngā rangatira nunui e toru o te ao. E pā ana ngā mema APEC ki ngā uauatanga hou hira ki te āhua o te āhua o te rohe, tae atu ki te manahauhau kino, te mārō, te huringa āhuarangi me te pūtaiao. Ka homai e ngā komiti APEC me ngā rōpū mahi ngā tūtohutanga kaupapahere tūtohu ki ngā Kaiārahi Ohanga APEC (Ngā Upoko o te Kāwanatanga) me ngā Minita e tūtaki ana i ia tau kia tautuhi i ngā whāinga me ngā tohutohu matua.

* Ko nga ohanga o APEC ko Ahitereiria; Poronai Taruharama; Kānata; Hiri; Haina; Hongipua, Haina; Initonīhia; Hapanihi; Te Whenua o Kōria; Mareia; Mehiko; Aotearoa; Papua Niu Kini; Perū; rumatiki Piripīni; te Tōpūtanga o Rūhia; Hingapua; Hainihi Tūranga; Tairana; te Hononga o Amerika; me Whitināmu.

Pokapū Mamati APEC mō te Hauora Hinengaro

Ko te APEC Digital Hub for Mental Health (Digital Hub) te pokapū whakarite mō ngā mahi a APEC i roto i te hauora hinengaro, e tautuhia ana i roto i te MahereOra APEC ki te Whakatoko i te Poka Hinengaro i roto i te Moana-nui-a-Ā-Kiwa Hauorao Asia. Ko te mahi a te Pokapū Mamati he whakapakari i te hauora hinengaro me te oranga o ngā tāngata me ngā hapori puta noa i Āhia-Kiwa e tautoko ana i te tupu o te ohaoha tautoko.

E mahi ana te Pokapū Mamati ki te whakaneke i ngā mahi matua maha i roto i ngā Wāhi Arotahi manakē [1]. Anō hoki, kei te mahi hoki te Pokapū Mamati ki te whakaroha i tana whatunga kāwanatanga, iwi whānui, me ngā hoa wāhanga tūmataiti hei tiritiri, whakawhanake, whakaraupapa, arotake hoki i ngā pūrongo auaha- me ngā papatono ā-mahi mō te hauora hinengaro. E taurimatia ana te Pokapū Mamati ki Kānata i te Whare Wānanga o British Columbia (UBC), mā te ngātahitanga ki te Whare Wānanga o Awai (UA) me te Whatunga Kānata mō ngā Rapunga Ngākau Mōrearea (CANMAT).  Ko ngā hoa takahuri noa i te rohe o Āhia Kiwa-Kiwa, tae atu ki Te Whare Wānanga o Melbourne, ka tautoko me te tohutohu ki ngā ngohe o te Pokapū Mamati.

[1] I tāututia ngā Horahanga Arotahi Arotahi Mamati mā tētahi Aromatawai Māiatanga e mahia ana e ngā mātauranga mema, ā, ko ētahi: 1. Ngā hapori me ngā tamariki mōrearea; 2. Ko ngā hapori taketake; 3. Whakawhiti ana ki ngā tautuhinga tiaki matua me ngā tautuhinga hapori; 4. Te wairewa me te manahauri o te wāhi mahi; 5. He whaitaua me ngā mōhiotanga tūmatanui; 6. Ko te manawanawa o te kino, o te mate, o te mate; 7. Ko te kohinga raraunga me ngā paerewatanga.