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Heather Kongs-Taylor (she/her)

National Manager - Operations and Infrastructure

I have been at Te Pou since 2012, having moved to Aotearoa from the United States in 2005. My role is to lead and coordinate both development and delivery of our evaluation and monitoring work. It is my privilege to manage the evaluation and monitoring team of evaluators, data analysts, and an evaluation assistant.

We work with programme and project leads across Te Pou and Blueprint to understand their work, determine how evaluation processes can help support their decision-making processes and provide evidence of programme outcomes, impacts, or areas for improvement.

I enjoy making connections and developing relationships with people, using stories to help convey information and ideas. I am passionate about public health, health system design and the links between social determinants of health and mental health, addiction, and disability.