September 9, 2022 - 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!
September 9, 2022 - 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 ...
MJAInsight: Climate change and sustainability: leadership, action from doctors
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 John Van Der Kallen: Now is the time to tell our politicians that we want a safer future
March 8, 2022 - Newcastle-based rheumatologist and Chair of Doctors for the Environment Australia Dr John Van Der Kallen was interviewed by Croakey about the IPCC report and the once in 1000 year flooding ...
Dr Nicole Sleeman: We need to restore clean air, water and land for our health
March 1, 2022 - Climate related trauma is far-reaching and requires a response on a personal, community and national level,” Dr Nicole Sleeman, Cairns based GP and DEA member told The Courier Mail. On ...
Dr Catherine Pendrey: climate change impacts our health in many ways
March 1, 2022 - "In general practice, we’re seeing more people coming in who have experienced trauma from bushfires, floods and droughts and who experience mental health impacts," explains Melbourne GP Dr Catherine Pendrey to The Herald Sun.
Dr Kate Charlesworth: The IPCC report is a stark warning for Australia’s leaders with their current emissions trajectory
March 1, 2022 - Public health physician and DEA member Dr Kate Charlesworth commented on the recently released IPCC report in a Channel 7 News report. Conservation groups say the latest global report by ...
AMA and DEA outline plan to reduce healthcare’s carbon footprint to top health bureaucrats
February 27, 2022 - The AMA and DEA outlined their plans to heads of state and federal health departments to reduce the healthcare sector’s carbon footprint.
Explainer: What does heat do to the body – and how does it kill?
February 27, 2022 - Deadly heatwaves are on the rise around the globe. But exactly what does the heat do to us – and what’s the best way to stay cool? DEA’s NSW Chair ...
Dr Brooke Ah Shay: GPs should be central to disaster relief
February 25, 2022 - The extreme weather events induced by climate change affect health in myriad ways, writes Dr Brooke Ah Shay, Northern Territory Chair for DEA in Medical Republic magazine. “GPs should be ...
DEA welcomes the news of the early retirement of Eraring coal power station
February 17, 2022 - Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) welcomes the announcement of early retirement of Eraring coal power station. Origin has outlined how security of electricity supply will be maintained, and that ...