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Enterprise Professor in Sustainable Healthcare: Congratulations Dr Eugenie Kayak!
On behalf of all of us at DEA, I’m delighted to congratulate Dr Eugenie Kayak who has been appointed Melbourne Enterprise Professor in Sustainable Healthcare in the Department of Critical ......
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AMA and DEA outline plan to reduce healthcare’s carbon footprint to top health bureaucrats
The AMA and DEA outlined their plans to heads of state and federal health departments to reduce the healthcare sector’s carbon footprint....
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AMA and DEA Make Joint Call for Emissions Reduction in Healthcare
Climate change is a health emergency, which is already contributing to life-threatening illness and deaths and the Australian healthcare sector is part of the problem – contributing about 7 per cent to Australia’s national carbon...
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Report: Net Zero Emissions for Australia’s healthcare sector (14 Dec 2020)
Towards net zero emissions in healthcare The changing climate is exposing our patients and communities to more frequent and intense extreme weather. Health professionals are increasingly treating climate-related illnesses, and ......
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Dr Ying Gu for Women’s Agenda: Climate change has women’s health consequences that must be addressed
We know about the impact of climate change on our environment, but what about on fertility and pregnancy? Climate change, fertility and pregnancy are not typically discussed together, however, obstetrician ......
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21/22 Annual Report now available
Doctors for the Environment Australia(DEA) Board Chair Dr John Van Der Kallen proudly launched the organisation’s 21/22 Annual Report at its Annual General Meeting on Monday 21 November 2022. In ......
Featured Other ResourcesSurgeons first to sign up to new green guidelines
The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) has become the first medical college in Australia to sign up to the newly released Green College Guidelines. The guidelines, which have been ......
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Media Release: Climate Change Performance Index ranks Australia 55
Members of Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) are disappointed their country has been ranked 55 in the recent release of the Germanwatch Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI). While Australia ......
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Media Release: Victorian Government urged to end native forest logging
As the federal government considers joining the global push to halt deforestation by 2030 at COP27 this week, the Victorian government is facing calls at home to end native forest ......
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Media Release: Mapping climate change and health into the medical curriculum resource
A new and internationally rare example of student-staff co-development of systematic planetary health and healthcare sustainability curriculum resources for teaching medicine connects the dots between foundational medical learning and...
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Medicos pressing for greater climate action
“This is a public health crisis….It is really important for the health sector to step up and speak out about it” says Dr Kim Loo. Dr Kim Loo DEA’s NSW ......
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Dr David Shearman: Can China lead the way on climate reparations?
Dr David Shearman is co-founder of DEA and Emeritus Professor of medicine at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. He is co-author of “The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure ......
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AMA / DEA Media Release: Impact of climate change on public health recognised in the federal budget
The Australian Medical Association and Doctors for the Environment Australia say the federal government’s budget commitment to establish a National Health Sustainability and Climate Unit is a big win in ......
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Fact Sheet: Asthma and Indoor Gas Appliances
Asthma has many triggers, and these vary from person to person: respiratory virus infection, dust mites, mould, and indoor air pollution. One exposure that is often overlooked is the nitrogen ......
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