Category: Climate Health

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Star Trek My trip to space made me realise we have only one Earth – it must live long and prosper | William Shatner | The Guardian

The AFMW Climate Health Action Group ( CHAG) has been very active welcomes new participants as this will be a year where we join forces with more peak bodies and become even more vocal around the need to shift the dial closer towards helping to preserve our precious planet and its inhabitants so that earth may live long and prosper. William Shatner had his say on the matter in The Guardian article after visiting outer space recently.

January 25, 2023

Report cover with man riding a bicycle - Climate of the Nation 2022 Tracking Australia’s attitudes towards climate change and energy

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Climate of the Nation 2022 | Australia Institute

The Australia Institute’s annual Climate of the Nation Report provides a comprehensive account of changing Australian beliefs and attitudes towards climate change, including its causes, impacts and solutions. For the first time, Climate of the Nation 2022 includes a chapter on Australians’ views on transport solutions, including quantitative polling and qualitative focus group studies.

November 24, 2022

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A big budget win for the health sector after a decade of climate advocacy | CAHA

In October 2022, the government committed to a first tranche of funding to commence the National Health and Climate Strategy development. Thanks to Fiona Armstrong of CAHA, who inspired many, including myself as the representative of AFMW to be part of a little bit of history here. We each generously lent our time, expertise and intellect to offer advice, and to contribute to this important outcome.

November 8, 2022

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COP27 Health Community recommendations | CAHA

The CAHA (Climate and Health Alliance) has co-developed and signed on to a set of recommendations for governments ahead of COP27.

October 27, 2022

CAHA member @drmsimonis in action outside Vic parliment house

Climate and Health Alliance Tweet re Health workers delivering your letter to Parliament House

Well done @HealthyFuturez on this great action today, and leading a big coalition of health orgs to call for 100% renewables for VIC by 2030.

September 29, 2022

Health workers deliver your letter to Parliament House!

The Australian Federation of Medical Women sees climate change as the greatest risk to health. As we have seen with natural disasters, climate change has even more negative implications for women, as they are care-givers to children and elders, have less money, less access to fewer resources all of which are exacerbated when they are pregnant or have a chronic condition or are from culturally and linguistically diverse groups, refugees and First Nations people.

September 22, 2022

“We are Women. We have a voice. We are change-makers.”

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ENGAGING CALD Women in gender and climate change – “We are Women. We have a voice. We are changemakers.” [Recap]

[RECAP] Proud to be invited to talk gender and climate change with my Greek friends at Food for Thought on Sunday 22nd May regarding the agency of CALD women and how we can influence our communities to advocate for renewable energy and the health of the planet. Founder of Food For Thought (FFT), a Greek Australian Women’s Group, Varvara Athanasiou-Ioannou and FFT patron Professor Vasso Apostolopoulos and I have enjoyed sharing our ideas on a variety of issues.

May 26, 2022

Resource - Reducing Single-use Plastics in Healthcare

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Reducing SUP in health – Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA)

Another good resources from from our friends at CAHA (Climate and Health Alliance) – a resource for healthcare workers on how to reduce single use plastics in healthcare!. They have also summarised into a one page fact sheet. CAHA! They’re doing the work for so many of us. We just need to apply these recommendations.

April 11, 2022

Educational Resource: Mapping Climate Change and Health into the Medical Curriculum

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Educational Resource: Mapping Climate Change and Health into the Medical Curriculum – DEA

DEA medical students and doctors co-developed a curriculum resource that maps climate change and health to the classically used organ-system teaching structure. It is an easy-to-use tool for medical educators to locate clinically relevant teaching points in each major body system.

April 11, 2022

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Colleges sign open letter to government to take action to mitigate climate change highlighting health effects

As published by RACP, the Australian peak medical bodies co-signed a Climate change letter to MPs highlighting health impacts. Read the open letter here.

March 28, 2022

Category: Climate Health

Star Trek My trip to space made me realise we have only one Earth – it must live long and prosper | William Shatner | The Guardian

Climate of the Nation 2022 | Australia Institute

A big budget win for the health sector after a decade of climate advocacy | CAHA

COP27 Health Community recommendations | CAHA

Climate and Health Alliance Tweet re Health workers delivering your letter to Parliament House

Health workers deliver your letter to Parliament House!

ENGAGING CALD Women in gender and climate change – “We are Women. We have a voice. We are changemakers.” [Recap]

Reducing SUP in health – Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA)

Educational Resource: Mapping Climate Change and Health into the Medical Curriculum – DEA

Colleges sign open letter to government to take action to mitigate climate change highlighting health effects

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