About Us

The Health Promotion Directorate is part of Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora, the public health agency established by the New Zealand Government to replace the country's 20 district health boards on 1 July 2022.

The Health Promotion Directorate has an overall function to lead and support activities for the following purposes:

• Promoting health and wellbeing and encouraging healthy lifestyles.
• Preventing disease, illness and injury
• Enabling environments that support health and wellbeing and healthy lifestyles.
• Reducing personal, social and economic harm.

It also has specific functions to provide advice and research on alcohol-related issues.

For more information about us, please visit our website.