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Croakey: Health professionals urged to join fight against harmful developments in the Northern Territory
June 23, 2023
DEA’s Dr Richard Yin and Dr Katherine Barraclough urge doctors, medical students and other health professionals from around the country to support the open letter calling on the Prime Minister and his Government to...
Read More ShareMJAInsight+: Embedding sustainability in health care – our wellbeing depends on it
June 05, 2023
The health sector, whose role is to protect public health, must be front and centre in the battle against climate change, write Dr Eugenie Kayak and Dr Ben Dunne.
Read More ShareABC News: Scientists say WA government’s prescribed burns targets have no scientific basis
May 31, 2023
Scientists, Indigenous leaders, and medical experts, including neurologist and DEA member, Dr Carolyn Orr, have called for change to the WA government’s fire management practices, raising concerns about the harms to health of the...
Read More ShareMJAInsight: Doctors must ‘step up’ to confront climate crisis
May 01, 2023
When the Australian Parliament recently passed the Safeguard Mechanism- the country’s most significant carbon emissions reduction legislation in over a decade- where was the health voice in the debate?
Read More ShareMJA: Why losing Australia’s biodiversity matters for human health- insights from the latest State of the Environment assessment
April 17, 2023
Only with a healthy planet can we ensure healthy people. Yet while there is increasing understanding about the effects of climate change on our environment and our health, much less is reported about biodiversity...
Read More ShareYouTube: Chats for Change with WWF-Australia – Can Trees Save Us?
March 10, 2023
DEA’s Dr Kim Loo joins Olympic swimming champion, Bronte Campbell, and WWF’s resident tree expert, Dr Stuart Blanch to explore why trees are crucial for our health in the first episode of WWF’s new...
Read More Share9News: ‘Difference between life and death’: Doctors sound alarm on western Sydney’s lack of trees
March 05, 2023
A group of doctors has issued a dire health warning about the lack of trees Western Sydney reports 9News.
Read More ShareWashington Post: Long-term exposure to pollution linked to depression, study finds
February 06, 2023
Potential links between pollution and mental health are a serious issue, said Dr Cybele Dey, a child and adolescent psychiatrist and member of Doctors for the Environment Australia, in the Washington Post.
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