Karen Hoare

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Biography:  Karen Hoare originally trained as an adult and children’s nurse at the Hospital for Sick Children, Gt. Ormond St, London and Watford general hospital. She qualified as a health visitor in 1985 (specialist community public health nurse). Her training as a nurse practitioner occurred during a two year posting to the Medical Research Council’s Dunn Nutrition Unit in The Gambia,
West Africa. In 2000, she established a charity, Development Direct, that facilitates the dissemination of information on Rights of the Child. She currently works as the academic primary health care nurse in the Goodfellow Unit and the School of Nursing at The University of Auckland.