Meet Our Keynote Presenters
Dr Paul Armstrong
WA Department of Health
Acting Chief Health Officer of Western Australia and Acting Assistant Director General of the Public and Aboriginal Health Division
Keynote
WA Department of Health
Acting Chief Health Officer of Western Australia and Acting Assistant Director General of the Public and Aboriginal Health Division
Keynote
Dr. Jesse Bliss
National Environmental Health Association
Director PPD Department
Emergency Management / Disaster Risk Reduction
Disaster risk reduction and environmental health attributes
Integrating Environmental Health within the UN Disaster Risk Reduction (Sendai) Framework
National Environmental Health Association
Director PPD Department
Emergency Management / Disaster Risk Reduction
Disaster risk reduction and environmental health attributes
Integrating Environmental Health within the UN Disaster Risk Reduction (Sendai) Framework
Hon Assoc Prof Leanne Coombe
Public Health Association of Australia
Policy and Advocacy Manager
WHO Public Health and Emergency Preparedness Workforce Roadmap
Public Health Association of Australia
Policy and Advocacy Manager
WHO Public Health and Emergency Preparedness Workforce Roadmap
Emeritus Professor Mike Daube
Curtin University
Emeritus Professor
We can all make a difference – what works in public and environmental health advocacy?
Curtin University
Emeritus Professor
We can all make a difference – what works in public and environmental health advocacy?
Dr. David Dyjack
National Environmental Health Assn
Chief Executive Officer
The Isthmus
Workforce panel - Environmental health champions?
Integrating Environmental Health within the UN Disaster Risk Reduction (Sendai) Framework
National Environmental Health Assn
Chief Executive Officer
The Isthmus
Workforce panel - Environmental health champions?
Integrating Environmental Health within the UN Disaster Risk Reduction (Sendai) Framework
Hon Ged Kearney MP
Parliament of Australia
Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care
Opening of Congress
Parliament of Australia
Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care
Opening of Congress
Prof Peter Le Souef
University of Western Australia
Professor of Paediatrics
Correcting UN data on global child mortality for the effects of environmental deterioration
University of Western Australia
Professor of Paediatrics
Correcting UN data on global child mortality for the effects of environmental deterioration
Mr Simon Millman
Parliament of Western Australia
State Member for Mount Lawley and Parliamentary Secretary to the Hon. Amber-Jade Sanderson MLA, Minister for Health; Mental Health
WA Government response to threats from tobacco/vaping
Parliament of Western Australia
State Member for Mount Lawley and Parliamentary Secretary to the Hon. Amber-Jade Sanderson MLA, Minister for Health; Mental Health
WA Government response to threats from tobacco/vaping
Professor Virginia Murray
UK Health Security Agency
Head of Global Disaster Risk Reduction
Disaster Risk Reduction – the importance of Environmental Health
UK Health Security Agency
Head of Global Disaster Risk Reduction
Disaster Risk Reduction – the importance of Environmental Health
Prof Sotiris Vardoulakis
University of Canberra
Professor of Environmental Public Health and Director of the Healthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) Global Research Centre
Environmental and Climate Change Impacts on Human Health – Time for Action
University of Canberra
Professor of Environmental Public Health and Director of the Healthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) Global Research Centre
Environmental and Climate Change Impacts on Human Health – Time for Action
Associate Professor Aditya Vyas
University of Canberra
Deputy Director, Healthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) Global Research Centre
A new era of environmental health practice for climate resilient health systems
University of Canberra
Deputy Director, Healthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) Global Research Centre
A new era of environmental health practice for climate resilient health systems
Dr Mara West
Telethon Kids Institute
Kulunga Aboriginal Unit Coordinator
Environmental and Climate Change Impacts on Human Health – Time for Action
Telethon Kids Institute
Kulunga Aboriginal Unit Coordinator
Environmental and Climate Change Impacts on Human Health – Time for Action
Hon. Reece Whitby MLA
Parliament of Western Australia
Minister for Energy; Environment; Climate Action
Day 2 Opening
Parliament of Western Australia
Minister for Energy; Environment; Climate Action
Day 2 Opening
Meet Our Speakers
Dr Claire Pulker
Edith Cowan University
Senior Research Fellow
Mapping the Australian food environment for public health planning: A cross-sectional audit of Perth
Ms Karen Purcell
NSW Food Authority (working on National Allergy Council exhibit)
Programs and Policy Officer
Making it all about allergens: working together for best practice food allergen management
Mr Robert Rantino
Agrifood Technology
National Laboratory Operations Manager
Sampling 101: How to take samples (food, water, environmental) and interpret results
Dr Joey Rawson
Bureau of Meteorology
Senior Meteorologist
Emergency Management / Disaster Risk Reduction
Ms Elizabeth Re
Private Environmental Health Consultant
Did the covid era wake up the community to the value of EHO and Emergency Management planning
Mr Paul Reed
City of South Perth
Environmental Operations Co-ordinator
Technical Tour - Water Sensitive Urban Design
Miss Alysse Regan
Metro South Public Health Unit, Queensland Health
Senior Environmental Health Officer
Campus to Career: How we have changed the way we support our students
Successful prosecution in the vape space
Mr Kim Rodgers
Eurofins
General Manager
Sampling 101: How to take samples (food, water, environmental) and interpret results
Dr Matilde Rodrigues
School of Health, Polytechnic of Porto
Professor
Workforce panel - Environmental health champions?
Prof. Anne Roiko
Griffith University
Professor of Environmental Health
Educators' Forum (Educators only)
Campus to Career: How we have changed the way we support our students
Dr Kirstin Ross
Flinders University
Professor, Environmental Health
Strongyloidiasis needs an environmental health solution not a clinical one
Workforce panel - Environmental health champions?
Ms Maria Said
National Allergy Council
CEO
Making it all about allergens: working together for best practice food allergen management
Ms Sofie Sandberg
Queensland Health
Team Leader, Environmental Health
Melioidosis: A tropical disease outside the tropics – Investigations in Southeast Queensland.
Mr Varinder Sapehiyia
City of Greater Bendigo
Coordinator Environmental Health
21st Century enablers and challenges to Environmental Health Practice in Australia and Worldwide
Mr Matthew Sargeson
Shire of Serpentine Jarrahdale
Coordinator Environmental Health
Wastewater Management Workshop
Mr Krish Seewraj
Department of Water and Environmental Regulation
Senior Water Panner
Wastewater Management Workshop
Dr Mercy Sepadi
Tshwane University of Technology
Lecturer
Respiratory Health Risks and Impacts amongst Informal Food Vendors in Johannesburg, South Africa
Dr Sid Sharma
Department of Health, Western Australia
Public Health Registrar
Projections of heat-related mortality in Perth
Lindsay Shaw
Ulster University
Course Director BSc Environmental Health
Workforce panel - Environmental health champions?
Ms Shelley Shepherd
New WAter Ways
Program Manager and Director
Technical Tour - Water Sensitive Urban Design
Dr Alexander Shivarev
WA Health
Public Health Registrar
Indoor mould health risk assessment and management of indoor mould post-flooding
Ms Tracy Smith
Department of Health
Principal Project Officer
Adapting the WA Health Sector for the changing climate
Ms Haylee Sneesby
Sydney local Health District
Environmental Health Officer
Environmental Health field response during public health outbreaks: three cases studies in Sydney
Miss Jessica Speechly
Blacktown City Council
Senior Coordinator Environmental Health
Asbestos in the air – from triple 0 to EHO
Mr Philip Swain
Philip Swain Consulting
National President
Emergency Management / Disaster Risk Reduction
Integrating Environmental Health within the UN Disaster Risk Reduction (Sendai) Framework