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Dr Heena Akbar is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Childhood Nutrition Research, working on the Feeding our Mana Project. Heena has extensive experience in community development, community-based participatory action research, with strong application of qualitative, quantitative and Indigenous methodologies and approaches in cross-cultural settings including the Indigenous (Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders), culturally and linguistically diverse, and Maori & Pacific Islander communities. Heena has successfully completed three funded projects with Pasifika communities; promoting diabetes and chronic condition prevention, management for Australian Pacific Islander communities and developed a Pasifika Women’s Diabetes Wellness Program – a health promotion wellness lifestyle intervention for Maori & Pacific Island women with type 2 diabetes in Queensland.