In November 2025 our Pacific Research Collective delivered an invited plenary presentation entitled Co-designing Pacific interventions: A Research Journey at the NAPCRG annual meeting in Atlanta, USA. Our team were Rose Lamont, the leader of the community group Pacific Peoples Advisory Group; GP Dr Maryann Heather, member of the Pacific Practice-Based Research Network; and University of Auckland researchers Associate Professor Malakai Ofanoa, Research Fellows Samuela Ofanoa and Siobhan Tu’akoi, and myself.