Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) is an organisation of doctors who recognise that human health and wellbeing require an environment; free of pollution, capable of providing nutritious food, rich in biodiversity, and able to provide for current and future generations sustainably.
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AMA and DEA Make Joint Call for Emissions Reduction in Healthcare
Climate change is a health emergency, which is already contributing to life-threatening illness and deaths and the Australian healthcare sector is part of the problem – contributing about 7 per cent to Australia’s national carbon...
Media Releases News & Media Sustainable Healthcare
Report: Net Zero Emissions for Australia’s healthcare sector (14 Dec 2020)
Towards net zero emissions in healthcare The changing climate is exposing our patients and communities to more frequent and intense extreme weather. Health professionals are increasingly treating climate-related illnesses, and ......
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Renew Economy: Australia must kick the gas habit, because it is bad for our health
The federal government is continuing its push for a so-called ‘gas-led’ recovery. DEA co-founder Dr David Shearman asks: How could this be when the evidence of health impacts from polluting ......
Featured Health & Energy News & Media Opinion PiecesSubmission to the Inquiry into the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Regional Forest Agreements)Amendment Bill 2020
Australia’s forests and woodlands are some of the most biodiverse ecosystemson the planet. They have unique intrinsic value but also make vital contributionsto human health.It is abundantly clear that over ......
Biodiversity Submissions
Roadmap to sustainable health care
Op-ed by one of our members, Dr Eugenie Kayak....
News & Media Opinion Pieces
DEA signs Open Letter from coalition of health groups to call for urgent climate action
To read the open letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, click here...
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An open letter to the Andrews’ Government: Less talk, more protection for nature
Over forty state, national and international groups representing hundreds of thousands of Victorians, call on the Andrews’ Government to accept recommendations for new national parks in Victoria’s central west....
Biodiversity Media Releases News & Media Our WorkInquiry into the Health Impacts of Air Pollution in Victoria
Over the past decade, DEA has advocated for improvements in air quality and air quality standards to protect health. DEA has recently provided a submission to Victorian Government Inquiry into ......
Air Pollution SubmissionsDraft NSW Clean air strategy 2021-2030
Doctors for the Environment Australia welcomes the intention for a Clean Air Plan for NSW asconcerted cross government action is needed to reduce health damage from air pollution in thestate. ......
Air Pollution Submissions
Release of Diet and Agriculture Pamphlets
This week, we’re releasing a suit of educative resources focussed on diet, agriculture and the environmental. Thanks to several of our South Australian members for putting these resources together....
Diet & Agriculture Other Resources Our Work Publications Uncategorized
Happy 20-year anniversary DEA!
2001-2021 Celebrating two decades of protecting health through care of the environment....
FeaturedDEA signs open letter calling on the Andrews Government to scrap proposed EV tax
We've signed an open letter calling on the government to scrap this proposal....
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