Sustainable Healthcare Aotearoa

Viewing her work through a national perspective, Vicktoria dedicates significant time to engaging both regionally and locally within environmental spheres, spanning climate risk and adaptation, biodiversity, transportation, and circular solutions. Armed with a bachelor’s degree in business management and a master’s in environmental management, Vicktoria brings a well-rounded approach to organisational sustainability, with a resolute commitment to prioritising te taiao.

Driven by a profound concern for the future of her mokopuna, Vicktoria adopts a forward-looking, solutions-oriented stance towards resilience, sustainability, and emissions reduction. She advocates strongly for integrating a health and wellbeing perspective into all policy and strategy formulations, particularly within discussions pertaining to climate risk and adaptation. Additionally, Vicktoria is dedicated to ensuring that the health system takes proactive measures to mitigate its own contributions to climate change and environmental degradation.

Jason graduated from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine in August 1985 and worked in one of Jiao Tong’s teaching hospitals from 1985 to 1995 as a resident to nephrologist.
From 1995 to 1997 he studied Physiology at the University of Auckland where from 1997 to present, has been working as a Certified Clinical Renal Physiologist in Haemodialysis at the Renal Dept. Auckland City Hospital where he has a particular interest in Continuing Quality Improvement. Jason is a certified Lean Six Sigma Practitioner, an international advisor to the Shanghai Quality Control Centre for haemodialysis and a committee member of the World Association of Chinese Nephrologists (WACN). He was also appointed as Associate Visiting Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine.

Jason is interested in making renal dialysis greener under the current climate crisis and was an Environmental Sustainability Committee (ESC) member of the Australia and New Zealand Society of Nephrology (ANZSN) from September 2018 to 2024.

Jason has led projects to great results in his department but also acts as guest speaker and presenter for national and international conferences (NZBDP, RSA,HiNZ, ISHD, OCN, AKI-CRRT, Shanghai HD Quality control Training Course and World Integrative Medicine Congress), as well as regularly presenting teaching sessions for clinical physiologist training courses from MIT/ ADHB New Zealand.

Greg has decades of management and leadership experience across a diverse range of sectors and countries. For the last several years, he has worked in sustainability within the retail, transportation, technology, and healthcare industries, as well as in both the private and public sectors. He has been at Southern Cross Healthcare since late 2023, where he is working on waste reduction, adaptation to climate change, sustainable procurement, and Southern Cross's steps towards its target of net-zero emissions by 2040.

Before his sustainability career, Greg worked in Asia, Australia and New Zealand in data analytics and market research consulting, specialising in the technology, retail, and finance industries.