Contents Welcome from the Convenors 3 Academic Program 4 Social Media 5 Breakout Sessions 6 Saturday Night Social Event 8 The Where and How 10 Public Transport 11 Parking 12 Extras 13 Speaker Profiles 14 Get involved with DEA 31 2 Welcome from the Convenors Welcome to iDEA17, the national educational conference of Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA). This weekend we will be exploring the gloal problems and local solutios that relate to climate change and human health. As juniors in the medical field, we are equal parts alarmed by the threats to health and inspired by what we can do by protecting our environment. We hope that iDEA17 will be a forum to learn about the relevance of climate change to medicine and how medical professionals can advocate for a healthy planet and healthy people. So we invite you to settle in, make some new friends and start thinking about what you can do in your own life and practice of medicine. Dr Laura Beaton Jessica Shipley Convenor Co-Convenor 3 Academic Program 4 Be part of the conversation WANT TO ASK A QUESTION? iDEA17 will be using Socrative to manage audience questions during question time. Simply download the app Socrative Student on your mobile device or go to https://b.socrative.com/login/ student/ and enter Room IDEA2017 to participate. Dot have portable electronics with you? We will have volunteers with roving microphones as well. FOLLOW ALONG ON SOCIAL MEDIA Join the conversation on Twitter with #iDEAConf. We have an iDEA17 Snapchat filter. Add us as a friend using iDEAConf and send us your conference snaps. www.facebook.com/DocsEnvAus 5 Breakout Sessions WHAT ARE BREAKOUTS? Our breakout sessions are interactive sessions where delegates will participate in a guided discussion about a topic on the forefront of the health and environment agenda. Our breakout session facilitators are passionate leaders in their fields and will assist delegates to develop actions that address key issues on the topic. On return to the plenary theatre, we will hear a quick example of the actions each group arrived at. WHAT DO I BRING? Other than your energetic self and brilliant ideas, we encourage you to bring a USB to the breakout session in order to save any materials that may be available. HOW DO I REGISTER? You have been emailed a Google Sheet to digitally sign up to your preferred session prior to the conference. You will also be able to register into a breakout session during the general registration on Saturday or Sunday morning. A team of volunteers will help you register into your preferred breakout on a first-come, first-served basis. 6 Breakout Sessions Greening Healthcare: Improving Environmental Practices of Health Providers Dr Forbes McGain (Anaesthetist) and Dr Eugenie Kayak (Anaesthetist) Planting a Seed: Teaching Sustainability in Medical Education Dr Janie Maxwell (GP) Do or Die(t): Dietary Change for Health and Sustainability Mark Pershin (Less Meat Less Heat) and Dr Leah Watts (GP Registrar) Divestment and Healthcare: Putting our Money Where our Mouth is Pablo Brait (MarketForces) and Dr Helen Redmond (Physician) War on Climate: Climate Change and Conflict Dr Jenny Grounds (MAPW) The Importance of Public Presentations and Different Ways to Get our Voices Heard Dr Eleanor Evans (GP) Coming Together: Community Organising for Climate Change Dr Sujata Allan (GP) Environmental Sustainability in a Rural General Practice Dr Gerard Brownstein (GP) Air Pollution and Health Dr Benjamin Ewald (GP) Active Transport for the Planet and your Health Dr Alice McGushin (Resident) Climate Change and Mental Health A/Professor Grant Blashki (GP) Climate Change and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ Health Larissa Baldwin (Seed) 7 Saturday Night Social Event Saturday night will be cocktails, comedy and conversation. Join us at The Leveson for a wonderful evening where you will have the opportunity to engage with like-minded delegates and speakers and be entertained by the ever brilliant Dr Pam Rana. Dr Pam Rana has been entertaining the masses for some time, and now she is bringing her hot-headed brand of comedic environ- mentalism to us! DETAILS Saturday 01 April 19:30 onward The Leveson, 46 Leveson St, North Melbourne, 3051 Smart Dress Tickets - $30 per head through https://www.trybooking.com/PBGA 8 9 The Where and How LOCATION 198 Berkeley Street – the Spot The conference is being held in the Copeland Theatre (Room B01) inside the Spot on the corner of Berkeley St and Pelham St, Parkville. Please see the map below for further direction. ARRIVAL As detailed in the Academic Program, registration will take place between 08:30 and 09:00 on both Saturday and Sunday of the conference weekend. Conference sessions will strictly start at 09:00. 10 Public Transport TRAMS AND BUSES This map from the Public Transport Victoria (PTV) website shows buses and trams that stop around the University of Melbourne. Tram numbers 55, 59 and 19 from the city will stop at Haymarket (circled in blue). For Melbourne public transport, an active Myki card is required. Myki cards can be purchased from train stations and 7-Eleven stores throughout the city. 11 Parking BIKE PARKING Bike parking is located at the entrance of the Spot on the corner of Berkeley St and Pelham St. Additional bike space is located between the Spot and adjacent FBE building. CAR PARKING Parking near the Spot is available with the closest two car parks being the University Square Car Park and Royal Parade Car Park. Please see below for further information on these two facilities. Street parking around the precinct is also available. Further information on parking can be found through the University of Melbourne website. 12 Extras Extras FOOD Catering is being provided through Vegilicious. Vegilicious - home grown in Melbourne - pride themselves on producing gourmet and wholesome vegetarian soul food. We encourage delegates to bring their own reusable coffee cup. YOGA Sunday mornings are traditionally for relaxing, right? Well here at iDEA17 ee got that covered. Come along to our morning yoga starting at 08:00 and finishing prior to our first speakers of the day. The yoga session will be aimed at relaxing the mind and body in order to allow greater focus for the day of learning ahead, with all levels encouraged to join. Limited yoga mats will be available to borrow, but bring your own if you wish and please arrive in a timely manner in order to limit disruptions to the session. Weather permitting, the session will be held outside next to the conference venue in University Square. We will confirm the venue on Saturday afternoon and make announcements on the conference event page on Facebook. Short sessions of seated yoga will also be held throughout the conference. 13 A/Professor Grant Blashki Grant Blashki is a practicing GP, an Associate Professor at the Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne, and Honorary Professor at Shenzhen Luohu Hospital Group in China. His three themes of research are 1)) Mental Health 2) Environmental Health and 3) Global Health. He has co-authored over 100 peer reviewed publications, 4 books, over 30 peer reviewed conference abstracts, more than 20 government/policy reports. He is the lead editor of the text book General Practice Psychiatry which has been translated into Italian and Mandarin. He has been a chief investigator on numerous reseach projects and he was the lead developer of the Monash University/ University of Melbourne Masters of General Practice Psychiatry that trained over 150 doctors by distance education and for which he received a Monash University Silver Jubilee Prize for Teaching. In 2012, he was invited to give the Inaugural Eric Dark Memorial Lecture. He has been actively engaged with community work including as The Chair of the Environmental Working Party of the World Organisation of Family Doctors, as a Board Director of the Australian Conservation Foundation, a clinical advisor to beyondblue, as a mentor in the Al Gore Climate Leadership Project, as a cofounder of Doctors for the Environment Australia, as Member of the Strategic Advisory Group of the Climate Institute, and he was a participant in the Australia 2020 summit participant. In 2008, he was a co-recipient of the Fundraisers Institute of Australias Major Grants fundraising award for philanthropic work. In 2009 he was co recipient of an Australian Evaluation Society Award for Excellence in Evaluation in relation to evaluation of major primary health care reforms in Australia. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and has served as an examiner for the fellowship. He is a a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. In 2012, he successfully graduated from the Asia Link Leadership program. Grant is a frequent public speaker and has given formal addresses to non government and corporate organisations. 14 Dr Karl Braganza Karl Braganza is the Head of Climate Monitoring at the Bureau of Meteorology. The Climate Monitoring Section is responsible for the preparation and analysis of Australias instrumental climate record. It is also responsible for the official reporting of observed climate variability and change in Australia and in collaboration with international agencies. Karl Braganza received his PhD from the School of Mathematics at Monash University. His research work has centred on understanding and attributing climate variability and change, using numerical modelling, instrumental observations and past climate evidence. He has been a lead author for State of the Climate publications and the Climate Change in Australia Technical Reports. Dr Helen Szoke Dr Helen Szoke is Chief Executive of Oxfam Australia and a leading thinker and advocate for foreign aid and international development, human rights, gender and race discrimination.