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-----Original Message-----
From: ASE <[FYI request #17734 email]>
Sent: Saturday, 27 November 2021 8:54 pm
To: OIA Requests <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - MOH policy roles under COVID-19

 

Dear Ministry of Health,

 

I am seeking information relating to the role of The Ministry of Health in
the present response to COVID-19, and all matters under the guise of
COVID-19 response and management.

 

Is The Ministry of Health tasked with providing evidence-based policy
advice to the government, the media, and the public? How is The Ministry
of Health empowered to defend an evidence-based position, and push back
with an evidence-based position, under pressure from government public
health policies which are not evidence-based?

 

To what extent, and in what capacity, and by what means does The Ministry
of Health provide evidence-based public health policy advice to the
government, the media, and the public? What evidence-based public health
policy advice has The Ministry of Health provided to the government and
media? To what extent has the government abided by, or not abided by, such
evidence-based advice?

 

To what extent, and in what capacity, and by what means have public health
dictates by government influenced The Ministry of Health in advising the
media and the public, in ways that may be influenced more by dictate than
evidence? What government policy-based public health advice has The
Ministry of Health provided to the media and the public, when such advice
is not evidence-based? To what extent has The Ministry of Health abided
by, or not abided by, such policy advice when it is not evidence-based?

 

How does The Ministry of Health manage conflicts between evidence-based
policies and government imposed policies? What policies and practices are
in place to manage conflicts between evidence-based policies and
government imposed policies?

 

What safe-guards (policies, practices) are in place to prevent a feedback
loop between The Ministry of Health and government developing a
relationship that rewards or otherwise reinforces government policy
dictates at the expense of evidence-based policies? By what metrics are
such safe-guards assessed? How is The Ministry of Health performing in
this regard?

 

What safe-guards (policies, practices) are in place to protect The
Ministry of Health from "regulatory capture" (eg via advisory committees,
industries, private interests) from developing, promoting, or otherwise
reinforcing policies that are not evidence-based? By what metrics are such
safe-guards assessed? How is The Ministry of Health performing in this
regard?

 

What New Zealand data is The Ministry of Health monitoring, to ensure that
COVID-19 inoculations are "safe and effective", as claimed? eg, is The
Ministry of Health monitoring data relating to age stratified all-cause
mortality on the basis of inoculation status? Is The Ministry of Health
monitoring data relating to age-stratified diagnoses and deaths relating
to myocarditis, pericarditis, heart attacks, strokes, excess deaths,
sudden deaths, thrombocytopenia, embolisms, thromboses, or other clotting
disorders, pregnancies and miscarriages, and other diagnoses of concern
relating to COVID-19 inoculations, and correlating such data to
inoculation status? If this type of data is being monitored, I would very
much like to see it. If this type of data is not being monitored, then why
is this type of data is not being monitored? How can The Ministry of
Health confidently ensure the effectiveness of public health policies in
New Zealand if The Ministry of Health is not continuously

  monitoring the most relevant and current data? If this type of data is
not being monitored, what basis is there for asserting that COVID-19
inoculations are safe and effective in New Zealand?

 

Is it the role of The Ministry of Health to be actively monitoring this
type of data, to ensure that inoculations in New Zealand are of net public
health benefit? If that is not part of The Ministry of Health's role,
whose role is it?

 

Thank you,

ASE 2021112701

 

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