September 5, 2023 - Global heating requires our urgent attention, writes Dr Richard Yin. Like COVID, this is a public health emergency, and the signs are everywhere that the threat is escalating, exactly as ...
Opinion Pieces
The Canberra Times: What will Europe’s heat mean for us here in Australia?
July 28, 2023 - I’m concerned about what the implications of climate change will inevitably be for us, here in Australia, – especially over the coming summer, writes Kimberly Humphrey. As an emergency medicine ...
The Medical Republic: Doctors speak out against fracking in Beetaloo Basin
July 7, 2023 - Doctors are concerned about the impacts of fracking on their patients’ health, the environment and climate, and are urging Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to respond to NT’s decision to frack ...
Croakey: Health professionals urged to join fight against harmful developments in the Northern Territory
June 23, 2023 - DEA’s Dr Richard Yin and Dr Katherine Barraclough urge doctors, medical students and other health professionals from around the country to support the open letter calling on the Prime Minister ...
MJAInsight+: Embedding sustainability in health care – our wellbeing depends on it
June 5, 2023 - The health sector, whose role is to protect public health, must be front and centre in the battle against climate change, write Dr Eugenie Kayak and Dr Ben Dunne. Australia’s ...
MJAInsight: Doctors must ‘step up’ to confront climate crisis
May 1, 2023 - When the Australian Parliament recently passed the Safeguard Mechanism- the country’s most significant carbon emissions reduction legislation in over a decade- where was the health voice in the debate? DEA’s ...
MJA: Why losing Australia’s biodiversity matters for human health- insights from the latest State of the Environment assessment
April 17, 2023 - Only with a healthy planet can we ensure healthy people. Yet while there is increasing understanding about the effects of climate change on our environment and our health, much less ...
Pearls & Irritations: Do universities with medical schools fail on fossil fuels?
March 29, 2023 - Universities have expertise in research and teaching in areas that are relevant to understanding global warming: geology, physics, mathematics, biology, oceanography, engineering, and atmospheric physics. Furthermore, those universities with medical ...
DEA’s response to the IPCC report
March 22, 2023 - The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report highlights the narrow window of opportunity that we now have for humanity to secure a liveable future, with deep emission cuts ...
As Santos sponsors the Tour Down Under, it’s time to ban fossil fuel advertising
January 13, 2023 - Dr Kate Wylie writes a powerful opinion article stating why the #TourDownUnder should not be sponsored by the fossil fuel giant Santos. Dr Wylie writes, that fossil fuels, such as ...
NewsGP: The overlooked health hazard lurking in many homes by Dr Ben Ewald
December 9, 2022 - For a child with asthma who lives in a home with a gas stove, 30% of their risk of asthma is from stove exposure, writes Dr Ben Ewald. The evidence ...
Dr Ying Gu for Women’s Agenda: Climate change has women’s health consequences that must be addressed
November 29, 2022 - We know about the impact of climate change on our environment, but what about on fertility and pregnancy? Climate change, fertility and pregnancy are not typically discussed together, however, obstetrician ...
The Medical Republic: Why Australia needs a climate health strategy
November 21, 2022 - Climate change is a current health issue in Australia, and we need to treat it, writes DEA’s Chair Dr Kate Wylie. As health professionals, we cannot help but see the toll ...
InSight+: As with tobacco, we must ban fossil fuel advertising
September 26, 2022 - 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 ...
Ditch fracking to protect our health
September 25, 2022 - “It is time we stopped being at the mercy of big business” Dr. Brooke Ah Shay NT News 25 September 2022 THIS week’s news of Origin Energy’s divestment from the ...
Independent Education: responding to students’ climate change concerns
September 21, 2022 - 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 ...
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 ...
Dr Richard Yin: People ask about the cost of action. We should also be asking, what is the cost of inaction of climate change.
March 7, 2022 - The science is very clear that climate change is being caused by fossil fuel combustion. It is also very clear that this will have enormous health impacts both locally and globally.
Dr Richard Yin: Heat waves are a real threat, we must cut emissions this decade
January 25, 2022 - Another day of 40 degrees. What does this mean for health. We know that over the last ten years that heat has caused the death of about 3000 Australians. But ...
The Hill: Climate change emergency cannot be solved by disintegrating democracies
January 5, 2022 - Our western democracies can no longer deliver consensus and action on issues that threaten humanity such as climate change, writes Dr David Shearman. Governments are unwilling to accept that many ...