A student-run conference for medical students and doctors addressing the environmental determinants of health. Tickets available at http://tiny.cc/idea14
Concerned about our world’s future? Wondering how climate change can be the greatest global health threat of the 21st century*? Curious about what doctors can do to help?
There are answers.
Join us for iDEA14, a national conference of doctors and medical students focusing on the environmental determinants of human health and the means to address them.
Featuring:
- Key speakers such as:
> Tim Flannery - Founder of the Australian Climate Council, former Australian Chief Climate Commissioner, Australian of the Year 2007
• Ross Garnaut - Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow for Economics at The University of Melbourne
• David Griggs - Former IPCC scientist, Director of the Monash Sustainability Institute
• Linda Selvey - Associate Professor of Public Health at Curtin University, former CEO of Greenpeace Pacific
• Fiona Stanley - Former Australian of the year, former Founding Director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Perth
• Rob Moodie - Professor of Public Health, University of Melbourne
• Forbes McGain - Anaesthetist and ICU physician at Western Health
• Phil Harrington - Director of Sustainable Living Tasmania and active member of Climate Action Hobart
• Helen Redmond - Rehabilitation Physician at the Westmead Rehabilitation Hospital and NSW Representative for Doctors for the Environment Australia
• Tim Flannery - Founder of the Australian Climate Council, former Australian Chief Climate Commissioner, Australian of the Year 2007
• Ross Garnaut - Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow for Economics at The University of Melbourne
• David Griggs - Former IPCC scientist, Director of the Monash Sustainability Institute
• Linda Selvey - Associate Professor of Public Health at Curtin University, former CEO of Greenpeace Pacific
• Fiona Stanley - Former Australian of the year, former Founding Director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Perth
• Rob Moodie - Professor of Public Health, University of Melbourne
• Forbes McGain - Anaesthetist and ICU physician at Western Health
• Phil Harrington - Director of Sustainable Living Tasmania and active member of Climate Action Hobart
• Helen Redmond - Rehabilitation Physician at the Westmead Rehabilitation Hospital and NSW Representative for Doctors for the Environment Australia
• Kerry Arabena - Chair for Indigenous Health and Professor and Director, Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit and descendant of the Meriam people of the Torres Strait
- Q & A panels with health experts,and Federal politicians Greg Hunt, Mark Butler and Richard di Natale.
- Workshops on meaningful solutions and how to take action
- Catered morning tea and lunch on both days as well as a Saturday night social function
Program is now released on the dea website! Follow the iDEA14 Link!
Tickets available from http://tiny.cc/idea14
We hope to see you there. Don't miss out!
“A sustainable future can be ours. The work starts now, and it starts with you. This is a generational imperative… a generational opportunity… that your generation must seize.”
- Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, 2012
*Lancet and University College London, 2009. “Managing the health effects of climate change”. Lancet 2009; 373: 1693-733.
- Category:
- Non-profit organization