Puakena Boreham

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Puakena Boreham (born December 18, 1970 in Nui ) is a Tuvaluan doctor and politician . She is a member of parliament and since 2016 Minister for Public Works and Natural Resources of the island state.

Puakena Boreham studied at the Fiji School of Medicine in Suva , now the College of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences at Fiji National University and graduated in 1998. She initially worked for the Ministry of Health as an anesthetist and chief physician at Princess Margaret Hospital in Funafuti , the only hospital in Tuvalu. In 2014 she completed a postgraduate degree in Global Health Policy at the Australian National University in Canberra . She has a PhD.

In 2015 she took part in the elections in Tuvalu for the constituency of Nui constituency , the small Nui atoll with about 1500 inhabitants, and achieved the second highest number of votes after Mackenzie Kiritome with 237 votes (26%) . On March 31, 2015, she was able to move into the Fale i Fono parliament as one of the two representatives for Nui .

In August 2016, Boreham took over the ministerial office of Minister for Works and Natural Resources from the late Elisala Pita . After Naama Maheu Latasi (1989 to 1997) and Pelenike Isaia (2011 to 2015), Boreham is Tuvalu's third member of parliament and the only woman in Enele Sopoaga's cabinet .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pacific Parliamentary Forum 2016: Delegate bios, Tuvalu: Dr Puakena Boreham , Website New Zealand Parliament. Accessed August 4, 2017.
  2. ↑ Pua Pedro, Semi Malaki: One female candidate make it through the National General Election. In: Fenui news. News from Tuvalu of April 1, 2015. Accessed August 4, 2017 (PDF).
  3. ↑ National Women MPs , Pacific Women in Politics website , as of May 2017. Accessed August 4, 2017.
  4. ↑ Tuvalu: election Load: Palamene o Tuvalu (Parliament of Tuvalu) , site of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Accessed August 4, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Boreham, Puakena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tuvaluan politician
DATE OF BIRTH 18th December 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Nui