Our Staff

Fiona Blacklock, Chief Operating Officer 

fiona@pha.org.nz

Libby Grant, Communications Advisor

libby@pha.org.nz

Libby (Pākehā) has a policy and communications role in our team. She works on writing submissions and advocating policy, manages our policy development programme, manages our social media and is responsible for two of our online newsletters: PolicySpot and the Bulletin, and she also helps manage our website.

Libby has a Master’s degree in Public Health and also works at the Department of  Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington. Her area of research for her Master’s was the way policy has influenced the quality of private rental housing in New Zealand. She is a qualified physiotherapist, yoga practitioner, aspiring ballroom and Latin American dancer and nature lover.

Leah Bain, Policy Advisor

leah@pha.org.nz