Hon ANDREW LITTLE: The research funded will investigate issues ranging from vaccine hesitancy through to improving genetic diagnoses for tamariki across Aotearoa. For example, one of the researchers who received a grant is Dr Jason Gurney, who holds a Health Research Council Māori Health Research Emerging Leadership Fellowship. Dr Gurney's project focuses on exploring the growing crisis of diabetes and cancer co-occurrence, and its impact on what happens to people with cancer. This research will allow us to predict how many people are likely to have both diseases in future, so we can not only plan for that but actually prevent the incidence of it. The projects funded this year show New Zealand developing innovative approaches that will have immediate effect on the health system, and that it has an agile and capable research sector that can respond to community needs and emerging health threats.