Scott had felt she was part of a messed-up system and turned to public health, seeing it as a way to change the system. “I like a quote that I heard . ‘for a lot of our health issues, the question is not what should we be doing, but why aren t we doing it?’,” said Scott (Waikato, Ngāti Whātua and Ngāpuhi). So she created a series of questions for the whānau of those sick tamariki, asking about everything from car seats to GP enrolment and whether their home was cold and damp. The aim was to stop the kids getting sick again by connecting whānau with services to keep them safe and healthy.