DEA - Events

Why would I want to run a marathon?

4 Oct 2019
Events
Ross Robertson

Medical student Ross Robertson will be running his first ever marathon at the Melbourne Marathon Festival on 13 October! He is putting himself through the hard yards (a gruelling 42.195 km) to raise awareness and funds to support DEA's vital work. Please support his extraordinary endeavour with a tax deductible donation.

DEA welcomes guest speaker Lizzie O'Shea to this year's AGM social function on 11 October in Melbourne

2 Oct 2019
Events
Carmela Ferraro

DEA welcomes members to its Annual General Meeting at 6pm on 11 October in Melbourne. The AGM will be followed by a social function featuring a special presentation by human rights lawyer, media commentator and author Lizzie O’Shea. This special social event is open to all.

iDEA Conference 2020

26 Sep 2019
Activities Events
Admin

iDEA 2020, the annual national conference for Doctors for the Environment Australia, is the leading Australian conference on Climate Change and Health and is being presented in partnership with the Climate Institute, ANU. This year we welcome our friends and colleagues from around Australia to a cross-disciplinary meeting focusing on climate change as an increasing health crisis.

Global Climate Strike: Doctors stand 4 future

20 Sep 2019
Climate Change Events Media Releases
Carmela Ferraro

Doctors will today take to the streets in cities and towns across Australia in support of the anticipated thousands of Australian school students who will miss classes to call for urgent policies to contain climate change, which threatens their future existence if left unchecked. Medical group Doctors for the Environment Australia says climate change is the biggest risk to public health in human history and young people, who are especially vulnerable given their developing bodies and longer life years, have good reason to speak out.

No Time For Games concludes in Canberra- with a motion in Parliament!

16 Sep 2019
Children's Health Climate Change Events
Carmela Ferraro

DEA's No Time For Games campaign, which has placed children's health in a changing climate on the national agenda, concluded today at Parliament House in Canberra. A DEA contingency delivered thousands of pledges as well as endorsements from major medical colleges to the Health Minister Greg Hunt, even though he was unavailable to meet us. The campaign culminated in a parliamentary motion in the House by Zali Steggall OAM MP and was seconded by Helen Haines MP. The motion recognised that human-induced climate change is one of the biggest and most urgent health threats to children, and calls on the government to decarbonise by 2050 to reduce the intensity and occurrence of extreme weather events. Read the full motion in the Hansard.

Health professionals call for Greg Hunt to protect children’s health in a changing climate, as Zali Steggall moves a motion in the House

14 Sep 2019
Children's Health Climate Change Events Media Releases
Carmela Ferraro

Doctors will today gather at Parliament House, Canberra, to deliver Greg Hunt thousands of pledges from major medical colleges and health professionals demanding urgent action on climate change for the sake of our children. Inside Parliament, Zali Steggall OAM MP will move a motion that supports No Time For Games, a national children's campaign by DEA. The motion, seconded by Helen Haines MP, recognises that human-induced climate change is one of the biggest and most urgent health threats to children, and urges the government to decarbonise by 2050 to reduce the intensity and occurrence of extreme weather events.

Media Alert: DEA to deliver pledges to protect children from climate change to Health Minister Greg Hunt, Canberra

13 Sep 2019
Children's Health Climate Change Events Media Releases
Carmela Ferraro

On Monday 16 September, DEA will deliver thousands of pledges calling for immediate bipartisan action on climate change which impacts on children most to the Minister for Health Greg Hunt MP, despite his unavailability to meet them . Speakers at the event outside Parliament House will include Senior Australian of the Year 2019 and Paediatrician Dr Sue Packer OA, Mark Butler MP, Zali Steggall MP and Andrew Wilkie MP. The pledges have been endorsed by The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP), the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM), the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians (ACSEP) the Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA), and more than 2000 health professionals, including Professor Fiona Stanley AC.

iDEA19: “Keeping the Lights On” post conference wrap

8 Apr 2019
Climate Change Events
Carmela Ferraro

Doctors for the Environment Australia were honoured to welcome our colleagues, other health professionals, climate experts, and guests at this year's hugely successful iDEA19 conference in nipaluna/Hobart on 5 -7 April. We came together to address the biggest challenge and opportunity facing humanity today— the impacts of climate change on our health. A major highlight of the conference was the declaration of a climate emergency which sparked national and international interest.

iDEA 2019 Conference 5th-7th April

7 Jan 2019
Events
Hakan Yaman

Join us in Hobart for iDEA, our annual conference!

Seminar: Where to for health, the Environment and sustainability?

25 Oct 2018
Events
Carmela Ferraro

Are you a doctor who is passionate about health, the environment and sustainability, or are keen to know more? Join us in person or by zoom in Brisbane on Saturday 27 October for our one-day seminar at the University of Queensland. REGISTER NOW!

NWPA Coal Seam Gas Public Health Forum

31 May 2018
Coal Events Unconventional Gas
Admin

iDEA18 Conference 2018

24 Jan 2018
Activities Events News
Rebecca Osborne

iDEA is the annual national conference of Doctors for the Environment Australia. Bringing together medical professionals and students from across Australia and beyond, iDEA unites people with one common goal – to address the human health impacts of the environment and climate change.

Media release: Are Australia’s Emergency Response systems prepared for the Climate Emergency?

1 Apr 2017
Climate Change Events Media Releases
Carmela Ferraro

Immediate Past Vice President of the AMA asks Are Australia’s Emergency Response systems prepared for the Climate Emergency?

Media Release: Doctor training needs to step up on climate change, urge health experts

29 Mar 2017
Climate Change Events Health Systems Media Releases
Carmela Ferraro

Universities and professional organisations must better prepare doctors and medical students to deal with the impacts of climate change, urge Australia’s leading medics.

Media release: Healthy planet, healthy people: Leading doctors call for urgent action

29 Mar 2017
Climate Change Events Media Releases
Carmela Ferraro

Doctors are calling for action on climate change, linking it to conditions such as respiratory diseases and childhood illnesses and also highlighting the need for emergency preparedness.

iDEA17 Competition

6 Feb 2017
Events News
Joy Oddy

Fundraising appeal: we need help to grow DEA!

15 Dec 2016
Activities Events News
Joy Oddy

What an exceptional year! Thank you!

ASRC patron Julian Burnside QC, to deliver keynote address following DEA’s 2016 AGM!

30 Sep 2016
Events
Rebecca Osborne

National Chair of Doctors for the Environment Australia Professor Kingsley Faulkner and South Australian Secretary Professor John Willoughby are delighted to announce that the patron of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC), QC Julian Burnside, will the keynote address at this year’s cocktail night/fundraiser on Friday the 30th of September in Adelaide.