INVITATION | World Health Day 2022 event: Our Planet, Our Health

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INVITATION

WORLD HEALTH DAY 2022
Our Planet, Our Health

The Australian Global Health Alliance, in partnership with the Climate and Health Alliance, Australian WHO Collaborating Centre Network, Melbourne Climate Futures, and Monash Sustainable Development Institute are delighted to present an expert panel on World Health Day 2022 to celebrate and reflect on our past, present and future connections to this year’s theme: Our Planet, Our Health.

Many groups and individuals claim knowledge in the field of planetary health and global health, and it can sometimes be a cacophony of competing rather than joined interest to act.

Our expert panel will explore lived experiences facing floods and heatwaves in Australia and the region, the application and respect for all global and First Nations knowledge, and the processes and platforms we use to communicate for action and for whom.

Living in the Anthropocene requires certain commitments of us all in our daily decisions and policy actions in order to address or strive to achieve planetary health: the health of human civilisations and the natural world on which it depends.

What can we do as individuals, institutions to promote Our Planet, Our Health and what should we do more of together?

Our discussion will be co-chaired by Australian Global Health Alliance Executive Director, Dr Selina Lo and Georgia Langmaid, a young generation lead in planetary health. Our resident artist Jessamy Gee will once again join us to assist in developing a visual representation of the discussion in all of its complexity.

Register

Thursday 7 April, 2022
12-1.30pm AEST

All are welcome to this free, online event.

Co-hosts

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Dr Selina Lo
Executive Director, Australian Global Health Alliance;
Consulting Editor, The Lancet

Georgia Langmaid
Planetary Health Project Officer, Enliven Victoria

Expert panelists

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Dr. Akeem Ali
Team Coordinator, Suva, World Health Organization

Professor Kathryn Bowen
Professor and Deputy Director (Knowledge Translation and Policy Impact) at Melbourne Climate Futures;
Professor of Environment, Climate and Global Health at
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne

Dr Kim Loo
General Practitioner; Chair of Doctors for the Environment Australia (NSW) and on the Council of the Australian Medical Association (NSW)

Professor Anne Poelina
Co-Chair of Indigenous Studies, University of Notre Dame, Nulunugu Research Centre

Distinguished Laureate Professor Nicholas Talley AC
Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Australia
Editor-in-Chief, Medical Journal of Australia

Professor Susan Sawyer AM
Geoff and Helen Handbury Chair of Adolescent Health, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne;
Director, Centre for Adolescent Health Royal Childrens Hospital

Full bios below

Thursday 7 April, 2022
12-1.30pm AEST

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Full host and panellist bios

Dr. Akeem Ali

Dr Ali spent the last 25 years working as a public health doctor, manager and in various leadership roles in civil service, public sector and international organisations. Following initial clinical posts in teaching hospitals, and civil service role as a District Medical Officer of Health and Director of Health Services in Ghana, he worked in international humanitarian emergency response with the lead UK medical emergency agency – Merlin as a strategist, turnaround director, and led global emergency response teams working in Afghanistan, Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Eastern European countries, and the UK.

He worked as an executive director of public health for 10 years in the NHS as a joint appointee with 3 different English local authorities. Over the last 3 years he has been working in Small Island Developing States to strengthen health systems, first on the remote island of St Helena in the South Atlantic as the Director of the Health Service for the island and now in the Pacific, leading the WHO Health Systems Unit for the sub-region.

Dr Ali has special interests in translational research, evidence-based practice, health promotion and community based social marketing, workforce training and development and strategic commissioning. He has served on specialised commissioning board in the NHS, worked with Health Technology Assessment centre, University of Birmingham, served as visiting professor of public health at University of Northampton and Head of School of Public Health for the East Midlands Public Health Postgraduate Specialist Programme. Dr Ali is a member of the NICE Guideline Development Group for Pre-Diabetes in at risk populations and has served as executive council member for the UK Association of Directors of Public Health and remains an alumni member.

Professor Kathryn Bowen

A leading, internationally-recognised expert on the science and policy of sustainability (particularly climate change) and global health issues, with 20 years experience in original public health research, science assessment, capacity development and policy advice. Kathryn thrives on interdisciplinary, energetic and stimulating work environments where the emphasis is on implementing policy-relevant and evidence-based sustainability programs.

Kathryn is regularly commissioned by international bilateral and multilateral agencies (e.g. WHO, UNEP, UNDP, ADB, GIZ, DFAT) to co-design solutions for sustainable futures.

Kathryn works to empower colleagues and decision-makers and collaborate with diverse stakeholders to drive positive outcomes. Her career highlight to date has been her nomination by the Australian Government to be a Lead Author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Health Chapter.
Kathryn holds a joint position at Melbourne Climate Futures and as Professor – Environment, Climate and Global Health in the School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.

Georgia Langmaid

Georgia Langmaid holds a Bachelor of Health Science (Honours) majoring in Health Promotion and Sustainability, from Deakin University. She is passionate about sustainability and planetary health using a health promotion lens.

Georgia has published two articles in Health Promotion Journal of Australia covering topics of climate change, mental health and the importance of ecological and cultural determinants of health and the role of health promotion in offering solutions to a climate affected world. Georgia is currently the Planetary Health Project Officer at Enliven Victoria which is a not-for-profit and Primary Care Partnership based in Melbournes south east in Dandenong. Shes involved in a number of community-based climate/health related projects.

Dr Selina Lo

Selina initially trained and worked in medicine, tropical medicine and sexual health in Melbourne and London. She has a post graduate degree in public and international law.

She is a long term consulting editor to The Lancet covering global and planetary health commissions. Previously she was The Lancet’s Senior Editor based in Beijing and London. Selina worked for Doctors without Borders MSF leading medical humanitarian project teams in Kabul, Afghanistan, Rakhine State, Myanmar, Bangladesh, China, and Thailand working closely with Rohingya Muslim, Karen, Mon, Miao, Zhuang, Yi and Afghan Hazara health communities. She was the medical director for Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines based in Geneva, and Clinical Advisor to the Clinton Foundation based in the national Chinese Centre for Disease Control HIV AIDS treatment unit. Selina was the inaugural Exec Officer for Doctors for the Environment Australia and previously a senior visiting fellow with the United Nations University Institute of Global Health, Malaysia.

She has consulted for WHO, UN IIGH and has worked at the Victorian Department of Health and the Medical Journal of Australia and currently sits on the steering committees of SESH Global crowd sourcing fund capacity building for lower middle income researchers in infectious diseases and The Global Academy.

Selina holds honorary affiliations at University of Melbourne and Monash University. Selina retains a commitment to promoting the work of Asian Australian artists and writers, and artists of the region in general through reviews and Correspondences.

Dr Kim Loo

The child of Buddhist parents, GP Dr Kim Loo learned early to tread lightly on the earth. Now, in addition to working with patients in communities in Western Sydney, she actively advocates for a sustainable future through her work on the Council of the AMA (NSW), as Chair of Doctors for the Environment Australia (NSW), and her many other involvements.

Kim is directing her efforts towards a cohesive, positive narrative which inspires people to reimagine what the future could be, one in which all sections of society can step ahead into the next phase with hope. To achieve this vision, Kim believes we need credible emissions targets and policy that actively supports the transition to a sustainable, clean-energy economy and society.

Professor Anne Poelina

Professor Anne Poelina is a Nyikina Warrwa woman from the Kimberley region of Western Australia. An active community leader, human and earth rights advocate, film maker and a respected academic researcher, with a second Doctor of Philosophy (First Law) titled, Martuwarra First Law Multi-Species Justice Declaration of Interdependence: Wellbeing of Land, Living Waters, and Indigenous Australian People, Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Master of Education, Master of Arts (Indigenous Social Policy) Signatory to the Redstone Statement 2010 she helped draft at the 1st International Summit on Indigenous Environmental Philosophy in 2010.

Prof. Poelina is the Murray Darling Basin (MDB) inaugural First Nations appointment to its independent Advisory Committee on Social, Economic and Environmental Sciences (2022). Awarded Kailisa Budevi Earth and Environment Award, International Womens Day (2022) recognition of her global standing. Anne is a Peter Cullen Fellow for Water Leadership (2011). In 2017, she was awarded a Laureate from the Womens World Summit Foundation (Geneva), elected Chair of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council (2018), Professor and Senior Research Fellow with Notre Dame University. She holds membership to national and global Think Tanks.

Poelina is an Adjunct Professor, College of Indigenous Education Futures, Arts & Society, Charles Darwin University. Visiting Fellow with Institute for Post-Colonial Studies, Melbourne and the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University, Canberra Australia Water Justice Hub to focus on Indigenous Water Valuation and Resilient Decision -making. See website: http://www.martuwarrafitzroyriver.org -ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6461-7681 – Personal website: http://www.majala.com.au

Professor Susan Sawyer AM

Professor Susan M Sawyer AM MBBS MD FRACP holds the Geoff and Helen Handbury Chair of Adolescent Health at the University of Melbourne and is Director, Centre for Adolescent Health at the Royal Childrens Hospital, a World Health Organization collaborating centre. A paediatrician by training, Susans efforts have helped to extend global understandings of the importance of adolescents and their health and wellbeing, in Australia, our region, and globally. She has developed a suite of educational initiatives to help close the global learning gap in adolescent health, including a Massive Open Online Course in Global Adolescent Health. Her research interests primarily relate to quality health care for adolescents. Susan is the Immediate past president, International Association for Adolescent Health. She has held numerous advisory roles for the WHO and is the inaugural co-chair of an Australian Network of WHO collaborating Centres.

Distinguished Laureate Professor Nicholas J. Talley AC

Laureate Professor Nicholas Talley is an expert clinician, educator and researcher, with extensive experience as a leader in the medical and University sectors. He previously held an appointment as Pro Vice-Chancellor (and Dean) of the Faculty of Health and Medicine at the University of Newcastle from 2010-2015, and was seconded to be the Deputy Vice-Chancellor-Research (Acting) at the University of Newcastle from June 2013 to March 2014 and was Pro-Vice Chancellor, Global Research from 2016 Dec 2019.

Professor Talley is a neurogastroenterologist, has published over 1000 papers in the peer-reviewed literature, and is considered one of the worlds most influential clinician-researchers (H index 139, Scopus Dec 2019). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Journal of Australia (since 2015). He is also a leading medical educator and the author of the highly regarded textbooks Clinical Examination and Examination Medicine. In June 2014, Professor Talley was inaugurated as one of the first 15 Fellows of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (FAHMS) and was elected to the Executive of the Academy.

On Australia Day 2018, Professor Talley was honoured with the Companion of the Order of Australia for “For eminent service to medical research, and to education in the field of gastroenterology and epidemiology, as an academic, author and administrator at the national and international level, and to health and scientific associations.”

Professor Talley was on the consultant staff at Mayo Clinic for 12 years in Rochester, MN where he held the rank of Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology, and was Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida from 2007-2010. He was the Foundation Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney, Nepean Hospital for nearly a decade.

Professor Talley is a Senior Staff Specialist and gastroenterologist at John Hunter Hospital and attends clinic and lists on a weekly basis. He currently holds adjunct research appointments as Professor at Mayo Clinic, University of North Carolina and the Karolinska Institute. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (and Past President 2014-2016), the Royal College of Physicians (both London and Edinburgh), the American College of Physicians, the American College of Gastroenterology and the American Gastroenterological Association. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.

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