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Page 1: Scientific Committee  · 2017. 2. 27. · community bodies. Doctors for the Environment Australia Promoting health through care of the environment For any enquiries contact: Dr

You CAN kick the car habit!Over-reliance on cars is bad for your family’s health.Emissions from cars contribute to climate change and damage the environment. Climate change is a serious threat to future health.

GET MOVING with active transport options - walk or cycle, use public transport, run or rollerskate. There’s more than one way to reach a healthy destination!

www.dea.org.au

Contact detailsFor any enquiries contact:

Dr. D

avid Shearman (Secretary)

2 Reynolds Drive

Crafers SA 5152

Tel: +61 8 8339 3972

Fax: +61 8 8339 4463

Email: m

ountlofty@ozem

ail.com.au

Dr. N

ick Towle (M

edical student contact)Em

ail: m

[email protected]

Dr. Bill Castleden (Chair)

Tel: +61 8 9757 6777

Email:

wm

[email protected]

Dr. John Stokes (Treasurer)

Tel: +61 8 9384 3419

Email:

[email protected]

Scientific Comm

itteeProfessor Stephen Boyden pioneer on hum

an ecology and biohistory.

Professor Bob Douglas O

A. leads Australia 21, an

organisation that tackles unsolved problems in Australia

including sustainability.

Professor Frank Fenner AC

pioneer in small pox

vaccination, Prime M

inister’s Science Prize 2002.

Professor Michael Kidd is head of the D

iscipline of G

eneral Practice at the University of Sydney.

Professor Ian Lowe A

O President of the Australian

Conservation Foundation and mem

ber of the National

Environmental Council.

Professor Steve Leeder Professor of Public Health and

Comm

unity Medicine and D

irector of the Australian Health

Policy Institute at the University of Sydney.

Professor Tony McM

ichael is Director of the N

ational Centre for Epidem

iology and Population Health, AN

U,and

Lead Author and Coordinator for health impacts on the

UN

’s Intergovernmental Panel on Clim

ate Change.

Professor Peter New

man Professor of City Policy and

Director of the Institute for Sustainability and Technology

Policy at Murdoch U

niversity.

Professor Emeritus Sir G

ustav Nossal A

C

Professor Hugh Possingham

Conservation Biologist and m

ember of the W

entworth G

roup.

Professor Lawrie Pow

ell AC, w

as appointed Director of

The Queensland Institute of M

edical Research and was

instrumental in the developm

ent of the Comprehensive

Cancer Research Centre which opened in 2002, and is now

D

irector of Research at the Royal Brisbane and Wom

en’s H

ospital.

Professor Fiona Stanley AC

Founding Director of the

Telethon Institute for Child Health Research established in

Perth in 1990. Australian of the Year 2003.

Dr. N

orman Sw

an The Health Report, Radio N

ational

Professor David Yencken A

O Professor Em

eritus at the U

niversity of Melbourne and Patron of the Australian

Conservation Foundation. He is also Convenor of the

Australian Collaboration, a collaboration of peak national com

munity bodies.

Doctors for the Environment AustraliaPromoting health through care of the environment

www.dea.org.au

For any enquiries contact:

Dr. D

avid Shearm

an (Secretary)

2 Reynolds Drive

Crafers SA 5152

Tel: +61 8

8339 3972Fax: +

61 8 8339 4463

Email: m

ountlofty@ozem

ail.com.au

Dr. N

ick Towle (M

edical student contact)Em

ail: medstudents@

dea.org.au

Dr. B

ill Castleden (Chair)Tel: +

61 8 9757 6777

Email: w

mc@

iinet.net.au

Dr. John S

tokes (Treasurer)Tel: +

61 8 938

4 3419Em

ail: [email protected]

Professor Stephen B

oyden pioneer of human ecology and

biohistory.

Professor Peter Doherty A

C, FRS, FA

A, Laureate Professor

of the Departm

ent of Microbiology and Im

munology at the

University of M

elbourne, Michael F Tam

er Chair of B

iomedical Research at S

t Jude’s Children’s ResearchH

ospital, and Nobel Laureate for Physiology or M

edicine.

Professor Bob D

ouglas OA

. leads Australia 21, an

organisation that tackles unsolved problems in A

ustraliaincluding sustainability.

Professor Frank Fenner AC pioneer in sm

all poxvaccination, Prim

e Minister’s S

cience Prize 2002.

Professor Michael Kidd is head of the D

iscipline ofG

eneral Practice at the University of Sydney.

Professor Ian Lowe AO

President of the Australian

Conservation Foundation and mem

ber of the National

Environmental Council.

Professor Steve Leeder Professor of Public H

ealth andCom

munity M

edicine and Director of the A

ustralian Health

Policy Institute at the University of Sydney.

Professor Tony McM

ichael is Professor at the National Centre for

Epidemiology and Population H

ealth, College of Medicine and H

ealth S

ciences, and Lead Author and Coordinator for health im

pacts on the U

N’s Intergovernm

ental Panel on Climate Change.

Peter New

man, Professor of Sustainability. D

irector, Curtin University

Sustainability Policy Institute Curtin University

Professor Emeritus S

ir Gustav N

ossal AC

Professor Hugh Possingham

Conservation Biologist and

mem

ber of the Wentw

orth Group.

Professor Lawrie Pow

ell AC, w

as appointed Director of

The Queensland Institute of M

edical Research and was

instrumental in the developm

ent of the Comprehensive

Cancer Research Centre which opened in 20

02, and is nowD

irector of Research at the Royal Brisbane and W

omen’s

Hospital.

Professor Fiona Stanley A

C Founding Director of the

Telethon Institute for Child Health Research established in

Perth in 1990. Australian of the Year 2003.

Dr. N

orman S

wan The H

ealth Report, Radio National

Professor David Yencken AO

Professor Emeritus at the

University of M

elbourne and Patron of the Australian

Conservation Foundation. He is also Convenor of the

Australian Collaboration, a collaboration of peak national

comm

unity bodies.