Asia-Pacific Eco Health Conference 2007
Conference and Event Management Unit
The focus of the conference is on the interdependence between human health, ecology and sustainability.
The keynote speakers are: Professor Jonathon Patz, Professor Tony McMichael, Professor Valerie Brown AO, Professor John Howard MD, Dr Colin Butler, Dr Margot Parkes, Dr Helen Allison, Ms Kerry Arabena and Ms Bronwen Machin. We encourage you to look at the keynote speakers abstracts and details of the workshops to see the depth and breadth of this conference.
Workshops:
Getting it together in a changing world - presented by Professor Valerie A Brown is an interactive workshop on integrative thinking and action for those working in areas of social change, environmental futures, action research, community development, professional extension, and strategic planning.
Catchments as Settings? - presented by Assoc Prof. Pierre Horwitz and Dr Margot Parkes is a presentation that examines 'healthy ecosystems' as a 'setting' (sensu the Ottawa Charter) for promoting health and sustainability, with a particular emphasis on hydrological catchments (or watersheds). Catchments are ideal units of analysis since they foreground water, around which all life revolves. This workshop will seek to critically examine this proposal, with participants discussing, inter alia, issues of governance, local involvement, and case studies.
Contemporary ecotherapy in action - presented by Ambra Burls is another interactive workshop that showcases a project in London (MIND) as an example of good practice.
PHAA Climate Change Forum - Friday November 30th is a is a workshop designed to help those interested in developing a practical understanding of the health dimensions of climate change and the political and community adaptations to it. The outcome of the workshop will be the development of a paper that outlines the background to health and climate change and proposes a protocol or set of policy/advocacy actions that will help minimise the health impacts of climate change on the various populations in Australia.
The launch of Valerie A. Brown's AO book Leonardo's vision. A guide to collective thinking and action. Rotterdam, SENSE Publishers 2007 by the Hon. Barry O Jones AO, FAA FAHA FASSA FTSE (a Fellow of all four Australian Learned Academies, a public intellectual and designated as a national treasure) will be another exciting element of the conference.
Please encourage your colleagues to register for the conference to secure their place.
We look forward to seeing you there!
