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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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InSight+: As with tobacco, we must ban fossil fuel advertising
Dr Richard Yin and Dr Carolyn Orr write a powerful call to action for the health sector to ban fossil fuel advertising and promotion in InSight+. As we did with ......
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Independent Education: responding to students’ climate change concerns
The toll of climate change on school-aged children and young people’s mental health is huge, but often overlooked. And how should schools deal with them? To explore this important issue ......
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DEA joins health leaders for a better, healthier future
Climate change is first and foremost a health issue and is a major concern for the health sector. DEA joined leading health organisations at the Climate and Health Alliance Health Leaders ......
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iDEA22: Time To Act. It’s a wrap!
Thank you to our exceptional speakers, as well as our wonderful delegates, sponsors, our organising team, staff, and everyone who made iDEA22: Time To Act such a hugely exciting, inspiring ......
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Welcome to iDEA22: Time To Act!
It is with immense pleasure that we welcome our speakers, delegates from across Australia, our sponsors, and media to iDEA22: Time To Act, which is being held in Melbourne and ......
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MJAInsight: Climate change and sustainability: leadership, action from doctors
When we think of carbon emissions, we don’t often think of healthcare’s substantial contribution. Yet, in Australia alone, this sector is responsible for 7% of our national carbon emissions. Australia’s ......
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AMA/DEA media release: Governments and the healthcare sector must lead on climate change
Australian doctors are pushing for greater buy-in from the health care sector to reduce its carbon footprint and are urging further action from medical colleges who signed up to a ......
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SBS: Heatwaves are a ‘silent killer’, and climate change is making them more common.
Europe has experienced a record-breaking heatwave. Heatwaves pose a serious health threat but are often underestimated, DEA NSW Chair Dr Loo said. “People really underestimate, even some of my own ......
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DEA congratulates AMA’s new leadership
DEA congratulates the new AMA President Professor Steve Robson and Vice President Dr Danielle McMullen on their roles. We look forward to working with Professor Robson and Dr McMullen on ......
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