Free Public Symposium - Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences in collaboration with Doctors for the Environment Australia

Code Green: exploring the impact of climate change on human health

 'Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century' (The Lancet, 2009)
Join an eminent panel of academic and policy experts for a public discussion on the significance of climate change, the challenges it presents to global public health, and what needs to be done to tackle an issue that threatens the lives and livelihoods of billions of people. 

speakers:

• Dr Alan Finkel AM, Chancellor, Monash University
• Senator Bob Brown, Leader, The Australian Greens
• John Thwaites, former Victorian Health Minister, Chair of the Monash Sustainability Initiative
• Professor Tony McMichael, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University

Date
Tuesday 13 October, 2009

Time
6.00pm for 6.30pm - 8.30 lecture and discussion
Light catering provided

Location
Building H, room 1.16
Monash University
Caulfield campus
900 Dandenong Road
CAULFIELD EAST VIC 3145

www.monash.edu.au/campuses/caulfield/caulcampusmap_april08.pdf

To register: mnhs.rsvp@med.monash.edu.au
or Telephone Megan Keating on 03 9905 5971