Puakena Boreham is a medical practitioner who became a Tuvaluan politician when she was elected to represent Nui in the Tuvaluan general election, 2015. Dr Boreham is the third woman to be elected to the Parliament of Tuvalu. She was appointed as the Minister of Works and Natural Resources in August 2016.
Dr Boreham studied at the Fiji School of Medicine and graduated in 1998. She has worked for the Tuvaluan Ministry of Health at the Princess Margaret Hospital as an anaesthetist and as the Medical Superintendent.