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 ...
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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.
DEA: All Electric Hospital Guide
March 24, 2022 - DEA’s sustainable health care Special Interest Group (SIG) have released a new guide for medical practitioners. ‘Building the next zero hospital to be net zero carbon emissions (all-electric): A six ...
Dr Carolyn Orr for TEDxUWA: End fossil fuels to protect human health
March 23, 2022 - Perth neurologist and DEA member Dr Carolyn Orr is a fearless and inspiring campaigner and public speaker, and a powerful advocate against fossil fuels in the interest of human health. ...
RACGP: Climate health impact posters, free to download and use in clinic waiting rooms
March 23, 2022 - Dr Kate Charlesworth, public health physician and DEA member along with RACGP have recently launched seven posters for waiting rooms, alerting patients to the risks of climate-health impacts. The posters have ...
Dr Brooke Ah Shay: Action on climate change needed now before NT heats up
March 20, 2022 - "The health issues associated with rising temperatures threatens the health and wellbeing of First Nations people in Australia, bringing with it a greater risk of mosquito-borne illnesses like Ross River virus, and higher rates of skin infection, amongst other things.”
National Close the Gap Day
March 17, 2022 - This National Close The Gap Day, DEA recognises and honours the enduring strength, resilience, and leadership of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in caring for the health of community ...
Heat in rental homes routinely hits unhealthy levels in summer, new report shows
March 17, 2022 - Dr Kate Wylie, Adelaide GP and chair of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners’ climate and environmental medicine group and DEA member was interviewed in the Newcastle Herald, The ...
Dr David Shearman: The rural sector should be the healthy heart of the nation in the climate crisis
March 16, 2022 - Ultimately, our governments’ greatest failure is in their understanding of biodiversity and ecological services. The bottom line is the survival of soil and land. ‘As a doctor, this is my ...
Dr Kate Wylie: Eco-grief and eco-anxiety are rational responses to the harm being done to the environment
March 13, 2022 - Dr Kate Wylie, Adelaide GP and chair of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners’ climate and environmental medicine group and DEA member was interviewed by WA Today on March ...