iDEA26 Speakers

Kat Williams

Kat Williams is the Emerging CEO of Wilya Janta and a visionary leader grounded in her Warumunga, Warlmanpa, and Warlpiri heritage. With expertise across wildlife conservation, geology, finance, and government project management,...

Dr Jenny Grounds

Jenny Grounds is a rural GP in Riddells Creek Victoria and lives on a bush block in a self-built solar powered home. She is a lifelong activist for environmental protection and...

Dr Simon Judkins

President of AMA Victoria and Director of EM at Echuca Regional Health As an Emergency Physician and Inaugural Chair of sEMCAN, ACEMs Sustainable Emergency Medicine and Climate and Health Advocacy Network Dr...

Professor Eugenie Kayak

Professor Kayak is the Enterprise Professor in Sustainable Healthcare at the Melbourne Medical School’s Department of Critical Care and a consultant anaesthetist at Austin and Alfred Health. She co-convenes Doctors for the...

Emma Bacon

Emma Bacon is the Founder and Executive Director of Sweltering Cities, Australia’s national community voice for heat safety. Since the beginning of 2020 Sweltering Cities has connected with thousands of people around...

Emilie Flynn

Emilie Flynn is Co-CEO at Geelong Sustainability and a committed advocate for climate and social justice in the Geelong region and beyond. Bringing with her a background in education, mathematics and accounts,...

Donna Burns

Donna Burns is a nationally respected leader in Indigenous health, climate health, culturally safe care, sustainable healthcare and equitable systems. She works at the intersection of health, climate and equity helping leaders...

Dheepa Jeyapalan

Dheepa is a dietitian and public health practitioner co-leading Good Food Purchasing Australia, a national initiative transforming the way our institutions purchase food. Her work spans academia, government and civil society movements...

Dr Christopher Gyngell

Christopher Gyngell leads the Biomedical Ethics Research Group at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and co-directs the Health, Law and Ethics Network at the University of Melbourne. A philosopher and bioethicist, he...

Anna Demant

Anna Demant is Co-National Director of the Murray-Darling Conservation Alliance, leading fundraising and stewardship efforts for river conservation. As a communications and philanthropy specialist, she brings a passion for the Murray-Darling Basin...

Adjunct Associate Professor Alice McGushin

Adjunct Associate Professor Alice McGushin is a Public Health Physician and Assistant Director at the Australian Centre for Disease Control National Health, Sustainability and Climate Unit. Alice has over a decade of...

Sean Dooley

Sean Dooley is a writer, conservationist and birdwatcher, but for many Australians, Sean Dooley is known as “The Birdman”. Sean is currently the senior public relations advisor for BirdLife Australia. While supporting...

A/Prof Zerina Lokmic-Tomkins

A/Prof Zerina Lokmic-Tomkins (Monash University) researches the intersection of climate change, digital health and health informatics. Her work examines the environmental and human costs of digital technologies, including AI and data centres,...

Associate Professor Grant Blashki

Associate Professor Grant Blashki, a 30-year GP, co-founded Doctors for the Environment Australia and formerly led the World Organisation of Family Doctors' environmental subgroup. An Al Gore Climate Leadership mentor, Grant coordinates...

Professor Margaret Schnitzler

Professor Margaret Schnitzler is a colorectal surgeon and education-focused academic who is co-Deputy Head of Sydney Medical School. She is co-lead for the Planetary Health curriculum in the Sydney Medical Program, co-director...

Kate Hook

Kate Hook is co-convenor at Climate 200, which supports independent political candidates committed to action on climate, honesty & integrity in politics, safety and empowerment of women and a prosperous and fairer...

Dr Tanishka Brahmanand

Dr Tanishka Brahmanand is a junior doctor, artist and co-secretary of the Victorian DEA with a passion for utilising art as a climate and health advocacy tool. Her exhibition in 2025, auspiced...

Dr Cybele Dey

Dr Cybele Dey is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who is passionate about improving responses to the impacts of climate change on mental health. She is a researcher at University of New...

Dr Selina Namchee Lo

Dr Selina Namchee Lo is Executive Director of the Australian Global Health Alliance and former ED of Doctors for the Environment Australia. A Melbourne-trained doctor with nearly three decades’ experience in global...

Dr Elliot Fishman

Elliot has 20 years’ experience as a sustainable mobility specialist. He completed his PhD in transport and is ranked by Stanford University in the top 2% of scientists globally for his contributions...

Dr Kate Wylie

Dr Kate Wylie is a GP and Executive Director of Doctors for the Environment Australia. Based in Adelaide (Tarndanya), Dr Wylie knows that climate change is a health issue and believes that...

Dr Angie Bone

Angie is an Associate Professor of Practice in Planetary Health at Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University. She is a senior Public Health Physician originally from the UK, with extensive experience in...

A/Professor Chris Leung

A/Professor Chris Leung is a clinician-educator-researcher and Gastroenterologist at Austin Health, where he leads the Medical Education Unit and MD Research Program. He is a Board member of Doctors for the Environment...

Dr Sarah Koffman

Dr Sarah Koffman is a board member of Doctors for the Environment Australia and a fellow of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine with advanced skills training in Adult Internal...

Dr Kimberly Humphrey

Kimberly is an Emergency Medicine Specialist and Public Health medical consultant/Climate Change Lead at SA Health. A Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Adelaide, Kimberly also holds numerous committee roles within...

Dr Louise Woodward

Dr Louise Woodward is a Northern Territory paediatrician living in Darwin who has grown frustrated by the lack of action on climate change and the wilful disregard of public safety by fossil...

Elizabeth Hu

Liz is a junior doctor who is passionate about sustainable healthcare advocacy and research with a special interest in quality improvement. She currently leads a sustainability education course at her hospital for...

Shaila Dube

Shaila is a 4th year medical student based in Newcastle, with a degree in Biomedical Science. She holds a keen interest in health policy and advocacy, women’s health, planetary and environmental health,...

Divyanshi (Dani) Mohnot

Divyanshi (Dani) Mohnot (they/them) is a second year medical student at Macquarie University in Sydney. Dani is the current DEA representative for the Macquarie University Medicine society and is on the DEA's...

Winnie Panczel

Winnie Panczel is a third year medical student and co-president at University of Melbourne DEA. She is deeply passionate about climate change action. Her previous work in the climate change non-for-profit space...

Madi MacDonald

Madi is a proud Gunditjmara woman and final year medical student at the University of Melbourne. As the First Nations representative on the Medical Student Society’s Executive Team for 2026, Madi’s role...

Alanna Dalley

Alanna is a third-year Doctor of Medicine student at the University of Melbourne and the President of the St Vincent’s Hospital MD Students Sustainability Group and Secretary/Treasurer of the DEA UniMelb Students...

Aaron Avenido

Aaron Avenido is a penultimate-year medical student at the Melbourne Medical School. He currently serves as Planetary Health Report Card Executive Director, AMSA Global Health Chair, and UMMSS Vice-President, and sits on...

Eliza Fergusson

Eliza Fergusson is a second-year medical student at The University of Melbourne. She currently serves as UMMSS Peer Mentoring Coordinator and Royal Melbourne Hospital Clinical School student representative and is an active...

Sunny Nguyen

Sunny Nguyen is among Australia’s most-prolific youth in climate and health. Trained in community development and epidemiology, he is Intergenerational Justice Stream Lead of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Climate and Health,...

Mahalah Mullins

Mahalah is a final year medical student and member of the DEA mental health special interest group, with a strong interest in planetary health education.

Arun Patel

Arun is a final year medical student at the University of Melbourne and DEA member. He wanted to join the conference organising team to help promote the advocacy needed to combat the...