August 15, 2022 - 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
August 10, 2022 - 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 ...
SBS: Heatwaves are a ‘silent killer’, and climate change is making them more common.
August 1, 2022 - 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 ...
DEA congratulates AMA’s new leadership
August 1, 2022 - 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 ...
Joint DEA & AMA webinar: Climate change and sustainability: leadership and action from Australian doctors : Tuesday 9 August 6.30-9.30pm AEST.
August 1, 2022 - Thank you to all who attended. If you couldn’t make it or want to see it again, the recording of the webinar will be available soon. _______________________________________ Co-hosted by Doctors ...
Enterprise Professor in Sustainable Healthcare: Congratulations Dr Eugenie Kayak!
July 29, 2022 - 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 ...
Dr Beau Frigault: Albo’s opportunity on climate and health
May 31, 2022 - 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 ...
Doctors for the Environment believe climate was decider for voters in Australia
May 23, 2022 - 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 ...
Dr Cybele Dey: Mental health is the unseen casualty of climate change
May 20, 2022 - 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 ...
Dr Kimberly Humphrey: How Climate Change Is Directly Impacting Australia’s Health
May 17, 2022 - 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 ...
Dr David Shearman: The war on climate change requires national sacrifices
May 16, 2022 - 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 ...
Dr Brooke Ah Shay: Why biodiversity matters to every one of us
May 11, 2022 - Species shouldn’t have to prove their worth to humans for the right to exist – but as it happens, they do
Media release: Australia deserves certainty on net zero target
April 27, 2022 - DEA deputy Chair Dr Kimberly Humphrey said that a recent Australia Institute survey showed that fossil fuels were costing Australia $22,000 per minute. Subsidies for fossil fuels noted in the AI survey showed that the cost of $11.6 billion in 2021-22 was across federal, state and territory governments.
Dr Kim Loo is interviewed by Greenpeace about the health impacts of fires, floods and seasonal extremes of western Sydney
April 27, 2022 - All photographs and text courtesy of Greenpeace Australia © Isabella Moore / Greenpeace In late February and March 2022, intense rainfall and floods affected millions of residents in Queensland and ...
Hope is not a method – we must act now to decarbonise the health sector
April 21, 2022 - Are we able to reimagine a world where clean air, water and food are available to all? Where economies are focused on health and well-being? Where cities are liveable and ...
Doctors ask Prime Minister Scott Morrison to reconsider funding for the oil industry
April 14, 2022 - Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s pledge to inject more funding into the oil industry risks Australians’ health and should be reconsidered, Doctors for the Environment say. Doctors for the Environment Chair ...
Educational Resource: Mapping Climate Change and Health into the Medical Curriculum
March 30, 2022 - Co-development of a ‘Planetary Health-Organ System Map’ for Graduate Medical Education It is imperative that educating the medical workforce to understand, address and mitigate the health effects of climate change ...
Drs Astrid Jane and Nick Williams: we talk a lot about the environment with our children
March 29, 2022 - Bondi Junction doctors and DEA members Dr Astrid-Jane Williams and Dr Nick Williams fear how climate change could impact their children’s futures and so they decided to put the little ones to work on their first piece of political activism, getting them to help by sending drawings of their environmental concerns to political candidates. Full interview in The Daily Telegraph.
Dr Kim Loo for SBS News: Governments accused of failing to act as temperatures rise
March 25, 2022 - DEA member and NSW Chair of DEA Dr Kim Loo is interviewed on SBS News. Heatwaves have caused more deaths in Australia in the past 200 years than any other ...
Dr Kim Loo: Governments have a human rights obligation to protect populations from climate change
March 24, 2022 - Governments have a human rights obligation to protect their populations from the foreseeable harms of climate change-exacerbated heatwaves, particularly those most at risk such as children, older people, pregnant people, and people with disabilities.