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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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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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Dr Beau Frigault: Albo’s opportunity on climate and health
Queensland Chair of DEA Dr Beau Frigault has written an op-ed in the Gold Coast Bulletin. For years, I like many colleagues have been increasingly worried about the health of ......
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Doctors for the Environment believe climate was decider for voters in Australia
National Chair of Doctors for the Environment, John Van Der Kallen said climate change is now a deciding issue for Australian voters from all sides of politics. “I think we ......
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Dr Cybele Dey: Mental health is the unseen casualty of climate change
Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) congratulates the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Congress 2022 “A Climate of Change”, the New South Wales Australian Medical Association and a series of Climate Change and Mental ......
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Dr Kimberly Humphrey: How Climate Change Is Directly Impacting Australia’s Health
Ahead of this week’s federal election, Radio programme Radiotherapy on 3RRR interviewed Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) Deputy Chair Dr Kimberly Humphrey to talk about the impact that climate ......
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Dr David Shearman: The war on climate change requires national sacrifices
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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