Photo: Supplied / Total Healthcare
After starting her health career as a community pharmacist, Kate Moodabe has spent decades finding solutions for health inequities that ruin people's lives and cause preventable deaths.
She has been recognised for her efforts with the Supreme Award at this year's Primary Healthcare prizegiving.
As the General Manager of the South Auckland Primary Health Organisation, Total Healthcare, Kate Moodabe was behind an innovative solution to get help severely overweight people who had disengaged from the health system.
She partnered with social and fitness advocate, Dave Letele's BBM Motivation to introduce point-of-care testing in gyms to boost health screening and support for people who would never ordinarily visit a GP.
She is also a passionate advocate for cervical screening HPV self tests.
