Hot off the press: The IPCC report and what it means for health in Australia
Event description
AfterHours Webinar: Hot off the press - The IPCC report and what it means for health in Australia
The latest IPCC report was released on the 1st March. It outlines the increasingly dire effects of climate change. It included a focus on the health implications. It also assessed how climate change will effect the different regions of our planet, including a chapter on Australia and New Zealand.
This AfterHours we will hear from IPCC lead author Dr Nina Lansbury. Dr Lansbury will highlight the impacts of climate change for us here in Australia. She will focus on the social inequities inherent in climate change and in particular on the effects in the Torres Strait Islands and other remote Indigenous communities.
Dr Lansbury is a research and teaching academic at The University of Queensland’s School of Public Health. Her current research at UQ examines health aspects for remote Indigenous community residents on both mainland Australia and in the Torres Strait in terms of housing, water and sewerage, and women's health. She is also investigating the impacts of climate change on human health, and this involves a role as lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (WG II, AR6). Within the research sector, she was previously a senior research scientist at CSIRO, manager of the Sustainable Water program at The University of Queensland, and senior research consultant at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS. Within the non-government sector, she was previously the director of the Climate Action Network Australia and research coordinator at the Mineral Policy Institute.
Please join Dr Lansbury on the evening of WEDNESDAY the 30th of March, for what will be a very thought provoking and important webinar.
Starting times: Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart 8:00; Adelaide 7:30; Brisbane 7:00; Darwin 6:30; Perth 5:00.
AfterHours activities are accredited CPD activities with the RACGP and ACCRM.
Presented by AFTER HOURS: A webinar series on climate and health