Climate change is a health emergency posing significant threats to health and to the healthcare sector. Mapping Climate Change and Health into the Medical Curriculum demonstrates how planetary health is a cross cutting theme relevant to every specialty. Download the report.
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.
Our colleagues at CAHA have prepared their 2024/2025 Commonwealth Budget Analysis and will be hosting a members roundtable on 26 July 2024, online and in Naarm, Melbourne.
AFMW has joined 40+ organisations who have signed onto Climate and Health Alliance’s (CAHA) Joint Statement calling for NHCS funding!!
A/Professor Magdalena Simonis Chair of AFMW Climate Health Action Group, along with Dr Kate Wylie, CEO of Doctors For the Environment Australia have a statement to make this International Women’s Day (IWD). It’s a call to include women in disaster management planning and leadership. Women bear the brunt of climate related disasters, and this article draws attention to this.
The recent announcement comes at a critical time for Australia’s health system. We have been calling for health reform that includes a climate lens and this is a step in the right direction.
Health Day for COP28 is a special event that will take place on December 3, 2023 as part of the COP28 UN Climate Conference in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.
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’.
Health professionals and community members are calling on Australia’s Transport Minister Catherine King to create a healthy transport system. Please read this document and sign the petition our friends at CAHA have issued.
Feeling weary regarding the ever present threats of climate change? Here is an excellent post created by a DEA member a couple of years ago which still resonates with me. And if you are interested in taking a course or being involved in some form of research or volunteering, our friends at Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA) have shared a great link.
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