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Using co-design to reduce Pacific health inequity: the example of NIU, a model to improve gout management

Malakai Ofanoa https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2431-0399 1 * , Siobhan Tu’akoi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8955-1364 2 , Samuela Ofanoa https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9880-7176 2 , Felicity Goodyear-Smith https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6657-9401 3
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1 Pacific Health Department, Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

2 Pacific Health Department, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

3 Department of General Practice & Primary Health Care, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

* Correspondence to: m.ofanoa@auckland.ac.nz

Journal of Primary Health Care https://doi.org/10.1071/HC25077
Submitted: 8 May 2025  Accepted: 25 June 2025  Published: 10 July 2025

© 2025 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

Keywords: co-design, community-based participatory research, gout, health inequities, health model, New Zealand, Pacific Island people, Pacific values.

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