This is the second installment in our new fortnightly series highlighting organisations where doctors are driving social change beyond clinical practice. This week we focus on Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA).
This is the third installment in our new fortnightly series highlighting organisations where doctors are driving social change beyond clinical practice. This week we focus on Doctors Against Genocide: When Medicine Meets Moral Imperative.
[MEDIA RELEASE] Hospitals across Australia are facing increasing risk around security of their energy supply as climate driven disasters threaten critical healthcare infrastructure. The All-Electric Healthy Hospitals Campaign — a coalition of over 100,000 health workers — is calling for urgent federal investment in reliable, affordable hospital energy. – Healthy Futures
World Environment Day 2024, observed on June 5th, carries the theme “Restore Our Earth.” In the last Triennium, AFMW and Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) signed a MOU and a specific interest group on Climate, Health and the Environment was initiated. Today DEA are asking for your support.
This inSight+ article, authored by Clinical Professor Leanne Rowe AM discusses how under the recently amended Sex Discrimination Act, the medical profession risks attracting the scrutiny of the Australian Human Rights Commission unless sex discrimination, sexual harassment, sex-based harassment, and victimisation of complainants or witnesses are eliminated in its workplaces and training programs.
At WONCA, representatives from around the world stood in unison, advocating to protect the planet and life of earth. Dr Maria Neira, World Health Organization Director for the Department of Environmental, Climate Change and Health, called climate change ‘potentially the greatest health challenge of the 21st Century’.
AMA & DEA invite you to attend the webinar ‘Australia’s doctors – driving action on climate change’ on Tuesday 12 September 2023 at 7-9 pm (AEST), where presenters will discuss the urgent need for the Australian healthcare sector to act by prioritising the transition away from greenhouse gas emissions and rapidly reducing the healthcare sector’s carbon footprint.
On March 20, AFMW hosted a Parallel Event at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). This year, AFMW’s topic was “Australian Women Doctors: Climate Change Advocates and Activists”. We were delighted to present to the international audience a program including presentations by esteemed colleagues from AFMW and other important national organisations including Dr Kimberly Humphrey, Deputy Chair of Doctors for the Environment Australia; Dr Kate Wylie, Founder of Climate Medicine; and Dr Liz Rickman and Dr Sarah Burrowes from the Australian Lesbian Medical Association. View the event recap and watch the video.
AFMW’s Climate Health Action Group (CHAG) has written an open letter to Environment Minister Sussan Ley urging her to support the actions of those working to sustain the environment’s wellbeing, and to take actions to protect the environment.
AFMW acknowledges that anthropogenic climate change is an urgent global health and urgent women’s health challenge which occurs mainly due to human related greenhouse gas emissions which results in global warming which is accelerating and will not stabilise without significant human effort at national and international levels to mitigate them.
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