The Health of our Planet and its People
Lesley Hughes, Liz Hanna and Jeanine Leane with Bianca Nogrady
Date: Saturday 19 September 2020
Time: 13.00 - 14.00 AEST
Location: Zoom video conferencing app. To set up zoom download from zoom.us/download.
Time: 13.00 - 14.00 AEST
Location: Zoom video conferencing app. To set up zoom download from zoom.us/download.
The health of planet earth and of its people is being increasingly negatively affected by major environmental changes. Fire, flood and disease are some of the ways we have been impacted recently. Our three panellists will discuss what is happening and what can be done with Bianca Nogrady.
Participants
Photo by Chris Chen
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Professor Lesley Hughes is a Distinguished Professor of Biology and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Integrity & Development) at Macquarie University. Her research has mainly focused on the impacts of climate change on species and ecosystems.
She is a former federal Climate Commissioner and former Lead Author in the IPCC’s 4th and 5th Assessment Report. She is a founding Councillor with the Climate Council of Australia, a Director for WWF Australia, and a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists. She co-chairs Macquarie University’s equity and inclusion committee, tasked with implementing the University’s gender equity strategy. Lesley is a strong advocate for women in science and passionate about climate change communication to increase public awareness and underpin climate action. In the past few years she has started to write science-related articles in mainstream publications such as The Monthly. |
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Dr Liz Hanna began her career in Nursing and spent around decade managing Intensive Care Units before going back to university to get degrees in Philosophy of Science, a Master’s in Public Health and a PhD which looked at chemical exposures and the gaps in Australia’s public health and policy protection frameworks. She moved to Canberra in 2008, to the ANU to focus primarily on researching health impacts of climate change and to convene Australia’s National Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Human Health. Whilst there she led studies assessing climate change and health vulnerability for Australia and the Pacific Island Nations.
Nowadays, she chairs the Environmental Health Working Group of the World Federation of Public Health Associations, is on the Expert Advisory Group for the Climate and Health Alliance, where she was the foundation President, and is an Academic Editor for the high ranking journal PLOS Medicine. And to keep her climate grief at bay, she has taken to painting portraits and landscapes, finding it very therapeutic. |
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Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic from southwest New South Wales. Her first volume of poetry, Dark Secrets After Dreaming: A.D. 1887-1961 (2010, Presspress) won the Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry, 2010 and her first novel, Purple Threads (UQP), won the David Unaipon Award for an unpublished Indigenous writer in 2010. Her poetry and short stories have been published in Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women’s Liberation, The Journal for the Association European Studies of Australia, Journal for the Association of Australian Literary Studies, Australian Poetry Journal, Antipodes, Overland, Best Australian Poems, Lifted Brow, Southerly and Australian Book Review.
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Bianca Nogrady is a freelance science journalist and writer. She was the founding president of the Science Journalists Association of Australia.Her work has appeared in Nature, The Atlantic, Wired UK, The Guardian, Undark, MIT Technology Review, the BMJ, Australian Geographic, Scientific American, the ABC, and BBC.
Her books include The End: The Human Experience Of Death, and she co-authored The Sixth Wave: How To Succeed In A Resource-Limited World. She was the editor of the Best Australian Science Writing anthologies in 2015 and 2019. |
