Climate Change, Healthcare and Carbon Footprints
Seminar Information
5 August - 6 August 2010
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Seminar Aims:
To share information about climate change and its impact on human health, healthcare planning & service delivery
To show case innovative initiatives, structures, systems and strategies that have reduced the carbon footprint in health care at any level of the organisation, including what worked well and what could have worked better.
To showcase innovations projects that have focussed on reducing the impact of health service delivery on the environment including those that focus on:
o Improving patient care by improving energy efficiency anywhere in/ at any level of the organisation
o Engaging staff, patients and communities in initiatives to address climate change as it relates to health service delivery, now and in the future
o Greening operations at any level of the organisation
Confirmed Invited Speakers
Dr Norman Swan, Broadcaster and Commentator
Sarah Bending, Environmental Analyst, Department of Health, VIC
A/Prof Jane Carthey, Director, Centre for Health Assets Australasia (CHAA), Built Environment, University of NSWSarita Chand, Architect and Commentator, NSW
Dr Forbes McGain, Anaesthetist and Intensive Care Physician, Western Hospital, VIC
Ruth Passman, Senior Health Policy Adviser North West Public Health Team Department of Health England, UK
Rod Quantock, Former Architecture Student turned Comedian and Climate Change Commentator
Dr Trevor Thornton, Lecturer, Deakin University, VIC
Amora Jamison Sydney, Jamison St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
