Climate And Health Alliance’s (CAHA) 2025 Federal election scorecard on climate and health is here! AFMW is a member organisation of CAHA. View the scorecard and report.
[EVENT] The Women’s Climate Congress is holding their 2025 conference “Women changing the climate – A festival of women leading climate action” in Dja Dja Wurrung Country, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia, Friday 28 to Sunday 30 March 2025. Medical women of the AFMW are invited to attend. Tickets available now.
The Better Futures Forum 2024 has kicked off at the National Film & Sound Archive in Canberra. Leaders across every sector of society have gathered to drive climate action together.
AFMW is represented here. – Dr Marjorie Cross
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.
Reuters report that The European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of more than 2,000 Swiss women on Tuesday, affirming their argument that the Swiss government violated their human rights by failing to take sufficient action on climate change.
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.
The World Health Organization has developed a free introductory short course for health workers to bring awareness to the health risks associated with air pollution. This four-hour course is a part of a larger resource, the Air Pollution and Health Training Toolkit for Health Workers, set to be released by the end of this year.
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