Role Call: People on the move and gaining recognition in the health sector

Wikitōria Werohia (Tuhourangi Ngāti Wahiao, Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāi Te Rangi me Ngāti Ranginui) has started at Te Aka Whai Ora as deputy chief executive – monitoring. The role includes evaluating and reporting on the performance of hauora Māori services. Ms Werohia, a trained lawyer, has served on the board of several Māori-owned entities. Spending the past five years as head of risk and assurance at ACC, she previously specialised in risk management at Suncorp Group and earlier was an executive director of the then Ernst & Young. Her career began as risk manager at the former Hutt Valley DHB.

Leigh Donoghue started at Te Whatu Ora in May as chief data and digital. Mr Donoghue previously worked at Accenture in Melbourne for 13 years, most recently as the consultancy’s growth markets health industry lead and earlier, as managing director health (Australia and New Zealand). For three years in Leeds, UK, he led the rollout of electronic medical record systems across primary and secondary care in the NHS and, earlier, in London, was an Accenture senior executive. He originally graduated from the University of Tasmania as an engineer.

Helen Clark, prime minister from 1999 to 2008 and health minister from 1989 to 1990, is the new patron of the Hepatitis Foundation of New Zealand. Ms Clark replaces Sir Jerry Mateparae in the role. She is the patron of a foundation in her own name as well as chair of the Global Commission on Drug Policy and global ambassador of The Hepatitis Fund. She chairs the board of the global Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health. After her prime ministership, Ms Clark served for eight years as UN Development Programme administrator.

With the retirement this month of the long-serving Richard Townley, the Pharmaceutical Society has selected Helen Morgan-Banda as its new chief executive. Ms Morgan-Banda was RNZCGP chief executive from 2012 to November 2018. She went on to become executive director of the New Zealand Law Society in 2019 and, in 2021, moved to the Association of Financial Advisers, in Australia, as chief executive. Last April, she joined WorkSafe New Zealand as transformational lead.