Healthy planet, healthy people: climate change and health go hand in hand

Talk Description
Climate change is inextricably linked to human health.

Increasing temperatures, bushfires, storms, disrupted rainfall and shifting diseases make climate change a health emergency, threatening our wellbeing and the care we can provide now and into the future. Whilst cutting carbon emissions and mitigating climate change could be this century’s biggest public health opportunity: cleaner air, healthier lives and stronger local economies. Join Enterprise Professor Eugenie Kayak as she discusses how climate change and health go hand in hand, and how we can use evidence and the vision of healthier, prosperous, equitable populations in a low carbon economy, to drive the change we need.
Bio
Enterprise Professor of Sustainable Healthcare at the University of Melbourne’s Medical School and a practising public and private consultant anaesthetist, Eugenie has spent two decades leading education, research, advocacy and policy action on the health impacts of climate change and environmental degradation, including healthcare’s own impact. Alongside her work with the Melbourne Medical School and the University’s Climate CATCH Lab, she collaborates closely with Doctors for the Environment Australia, peak health organisations, governments and the wider medical profession. Eugenie currently sits on the Australian Government’s Chief Health Expert Advisory Group for the National Health and Climate Strategy and the WHO‑hosted ATACH network Steering Group.

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