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Joint College Plenary
Topic: Eroding the Foundations of Population Health
The Joint College Plenary, led by Professor Tony McMichael will explore the theme of climate change, the adverse effects on human health and the health sectors' response. The plenary will also provide the College an opportunity to acknowledge Professor McMichaels' recent appointment as the incoming Chair of the new WHO International Advisory Board on Climate Change and Health. Professor McMichael will be supported by Professor Tony Capon, the newly appointed Convener of the National Adaptation Research Network for Human Health and Colin Butler, an Associate Professor at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University.
Professor Tony McMichael
Tony McMichael (MBBS Adelaide University) is an NHMRC Australia Fellow at ANU. During 2001-07 he was Director of ANU’s National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health. Previously, 1994-2001, he held the Chair of Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
His research on the health risks of climate change extends his earlier international development of this research topic. During 1993-2006 he led the assessment of health risks for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He chairs an expert committee for WHO’s Tropical (Infectious) Diseases Research Programme, and is President of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology.
In 1993 he published Planetary Overload: Global Environmental Change and Human Health (Cambridge UP).Other books include: (i) Martens W, McMichael AJ Environmental Change, Climate and Health: Issues and Research Methods (Cambridge) 2002, (ii) McMichael et al (eds) Climate Change and Human Health: Risks and Responses (Geneva: WHO) 2003, and (iii) sole-author: Human Frontiers and Disease: Past Patterns, Uncertain Futures (Cambridge, 2001).
Professor Tony Capon
Tony Capon is a public health physician with expertise in environmental health and infectious diseases. He graduated in medicine at the University of Queensland, 1983. His PhD at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, 1989, was followed by post-doctoral work at the Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin. He was director of public health with Sydney West Area Health Service during 1991-2006. Tony has held prestigious National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia) and World Health Organization Fellowships. He is a frequent consultant to industry and government, and is currently serving on the Boards of Nature and Society Forum (as Chair) and the International Society for Urban Health.
Research Interests
- Sustainability and population health
- Systems understanding of urban environments and health
- Diseases of modern civilisation
- Research-policy-industry-community nexus
Associate Professor Colin Butler
Colin Butler (BMed University of Newcastle) has combined clinical medicine, academic research and activism since his days in the early 1980s as a medical student. In 1989 he co-founded a non-government organisation which aims to sustainably improve population health in low income countries (www.bodhi.net.au). In 2001 he became a founding board member of Doctors for the Environment Australia (www.bodhi.net.au).
Colin argues that humanity will pay a high price for losing contact with its ecological origin, and that this has fostered the conceit that human well-being can be maintained, or even enhanced, by continuing the economic, industrial, social and environmental processes which have dominated in recent centuries.
He has published extensively on topics related to global climate and ecosystem change, human population pressure, global inequality, and the human future. He was the corresponding author for the chapter on Future Human Well-being, published by the scenarios working group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. He is currently a full time academic at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University.
Important Dates
Congress Dates: 17 - 20 May 2009
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