Webinar to help doctors practice sustainable medicine

The AMA and Doctors for the Environment Australia invite our members and other interested health professionals to join this year’s webinar on climate change and sustainable healthcare on Tuesday 9 August. 6.30-8.30pm AEST.

While climate change is contributing to life-threatening illnesses and deaths, Australia’s healthcare sector is estimated to contribute to 7 per cent of Australia’s total carbon footprint.

Many in the healthcare sector are working to improve carbon footprints and sustainability practises.

Following the success of last year’s webinar, we aim to bring together medical professionals and Australia’s medical colleges to showcase the steps our sector is taking towards embedding sustainability across medicine.

The webinar, Climate change and sustainability: leadership and action from Australian doctors, to be held on Tuesday 9 August 2022 from 6.30–8.30pm AEST, will highlight the duty of care medical professionals have to lead in sustainable healthcare and explore why high value care is low carbon care.

Minister for Health Mark Butler will provide an introduction for the webinar, followed by presentations from Professor Nick Tally, Editor-in-chief of the Medical Journal of Australia and Professor Alexandra Barratt, University of Sydney Professor of Public Health.

Australia’s medical colleges will report on their past and future activities in relation to climate change and sustainability, and the impacts of climate change on their specialty. Dr Kate Charlesworth, of NSW Health, will provide a webinar wrap-up.

The webinar will be moderated by the incoming AMA President and DEA Chair, Dr John Van Der Kallen.

Register for the free webinar here.