Te Ropu Whariki works in partnership with the SHORE Centre. Its Director, Helen Moewaka Barnes (Ngati Wai, Ngati Hine) is also Associate Director of the SHORE Centre.

Kaupapa
• To provide high quality research and to tautoko Maori communities
• To contribute to uplifting the health of our people and to work towards Maori development aspirations
• To further the development of a Maori research workforce
• To recognise multiple accountabilities, negotiated both within the Centre and with communities and other parties with whom we work.

Te Putake
We recognise the responsibility to work on a range of levels and to disseminate information widely. We provide research which can be fed into policy decisions - from government, to local marae and whanau. We are active in community action programmes implemented by Maori providers and work alongside Maori communities developing their own solutions. We offer formative, process and impact evaluation, use qualitative and quantitative methodologies and share evaluation knowledge by training Maori community and health workers.