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Public health has an ethical commitment to reduce health disparities. Advancing Te Tiriti obligations in everyday practice has the potential to address inequalities.

presented a radical vision for primary health based on the principles of equity, community participation, human rights and intersectoral collaboration to achieve the goal of better health for all.It affirmed the importance of essential frontline health services as a way of keeping people well and pro-actively managing disease and injury outside the secondary and tertiary health system. Improved population health, however, remains aspirational, and systemic global health inequities remain entrenched especially between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples (Alford, 2005;

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