AMA holding climate change webinar with DEA
A joint webinar held by the AMA and Doctors for the Environment Australia will highlight the work underway across the health sector to act on climate change.
Australia’s leading doctors will discuss the need for urgent action on climate change at a joint webinar run by the AMA and Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) on Tuesday, 12 September.
The annual webinar, Australia’s doctors — driving action on climate change, brings sustainability experts and medical colleges together to report on activities underway across the medical profession to embed sustainability and reduce emissions in healthcare.
Chief Medical Officer Professor Paul Kelly will address the webinar and highlight the work of the federal health department’s National Health Sustainability and Climate Unit.
Professor Kelly will be joined by AMA President Professor Steve Robson, DEA Chair Dr John Van Der Kallen, DEA’s Sustainability group go-chair Dr Eugenie Kayak and Dr Kate Charlesworth, senior advisor of the Climate Risk and Net Zero Unit at NSW Health.
Delegates from multiple medical colleges will outline the sustainability work underway within their specialty.
The webinar will recognise the human health costs of global heating are rapidly rising, with ever increasing morbidity and mortality associated with extreme weather events.
