Co-designing a Pacific diabetes prevention program with families and communities

The distribution of and access to resources to enable better health and wellbeing for Pacific families with members who have long-term conditions, continues to be unequal, and lacks cultural responsiveness that is acceptable to Pacific groups living in different regions (rural vs urban). This project focuses on co-designing a unique family-centred diabetes prevention programme. Pacific families make up the nucleus of their communities, and often determine how communities operate collectively. The prevention programme will focus on a holistic approach to support family members who have or are at high risk of diabetes. The impact of the overall research programme will provide a methodological approach that can be replicated in other communities and ethnic groups. This proposal also builds-on an established Pacific community-research partnership and it is, therefore, well placed to implement the research work.