Carla (Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Toa Rangatira) lives in Pukearuhe and splits her time between home and work in Auckland. She is a director of Health Literacy New Zealand Limited which works with DHBs, PHOs and other health organisations to improve the design and delivery of their services from a health literacy perspective, to better meet the health needs of the public. Carla is also a consumer representative on the Pharmacy Expert Advisory Group and part of the newly formed Māori Reference Rōpū supporting the Ministry of Health’s current Standards Review.