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 ...
Welcome to iDEA22: Time To Act!
September 2, 2022 - It is with immense pleasure that we welcome our speakers, delegates from across Australia, our sponsors, and media to iDEA22: Time To Act, which is being held in Melbourne and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Joint DEA & AMA webinar: Climate change and sustainability: leadership and action from Australian doctors
August 9, 2022 - Co-hosted by Doctors for the Environment Australia and the Australian Medical Association, this webinar once again brought together medical professionals and Australia’s medical colleges to facilitate the sharing of information, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Media Release: 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 ...