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News: tagged with "volunteers"

• Libraries collecting helping hearts for newborn babies

  Posted: Thursday, December 2, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: families, children, volunteers
  Selwyn District Council media release: 30th November 2021 A Leeston crafter has teamed up with Selwyn Libraries and the Canterbury District Health Board to give a helping heart to some of our newest Cantabrians

• Join a study on NZ Green Seaweed supplements

  Posted: Thursday, December 2, 2021 in: Vacancies With tags: volunteers, medical, health, research
  Researchers at Lincoln and Waikato Universities are seeking volunteers for a study on how supplementation with natural NZ seaweed impacts the health of the gut and arteries. The study runs from January to April 2022

• Join a new study on younger onset dementia diagnosis

  Posted: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 in: Vacancies With tags: research, volunteers, dementia
  Do you or a loved one have dementia? Researchers at the University of Auckland Centre for Brain Research are looking for people intrested in joining their new study on younger onset dementia diagnosis

• Call for volunteers for the Kowhai programme

  Posted: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 in: Vacancies With tags: volunteers, health, services, support
  The Kōwhai programme is a new initiative offering patient centred support by volunteers. The programme is being rolled out in the Older Persons’ Health inpatient wards at Burwood Hospital

• Participate in the Through the Eyes of Men Project

  Posted: Thursday, October 14, 2021 in: Vacancies With tags: research, volunteers, men, mental health, mental wellbeing, depression, anxiety
  Men who have experienced anxiety, depression or felt suicidal are invited to share their story as part of a research study to better understand men’s depression, anxiety and suicidality

• Volunteers needed for constipation and slow bowels research

  Posted: Wednesday, July 28, 2021 in: Vacancies With tags: volunteers, research, Gut Health
  A research team at the University of Otago Christchurch are looking for volunteers who have constipation or slow bowels to be part of a study

• Volunteers needed for a nutrient supplementation study

  Posted: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 in: Vacancies With tags: volunteers, research, health
  A research team at the University of Otago Christchurch are looking for vounteers with metabolic syndrome to take part in a study to investigate whether supplementation with vitamin C and micronutrients results in improved metabolic health

• Calling all knitters: Woollen hats needed for newborn babies

  Posted: Wednesday, June 23, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: families, children, volunteers
  Sandi and the whole team at Christchurch Women’s Hospital maternity department would like to thank all the people who have donated

• Take part in the Matisse RSV Vaccine in Pregnancy Study

  Posted: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: children, volunteers, research, women, disease, immunisation, vaccination
  You’ll give your children. Could protection from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) be one of them? Midwives from the University of Otago Christchurch are looking for local pregnant women to take part in this international vaccine study

• Volunteers needed for Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative

  Posted: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 in: Vacancies With tags: volunteers, research, health, Eating Disorders
  Have you experienced an eating disorder? The Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative (EDGI) team in New Zealand invite you to join a global initiative to discover the genes that cause eating disorders