2011 Environmental Officers

Ben Finlay ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Mani Berghout ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

About the Committee

The Environmental Sub-committee is a new committee for 2011, growing out of the increasing interest of HHRG in the interrelationship between environmental and health issues. We recognise the fundamental dependence of human health on a healthy environment, and the danger that unmitigated climate change poses to global health. We thus aim to advocate and educate our peers on environmental issues that are of importance to human health.

Goals

•    Educate and inform our peers about environmental issues that have health implications
•    Meet with and lobby politicians to understand our views and take action on our behalf
•    Work closely with Doctors for the Environment, Australia (DEA) and implement DEA directives within FMC/SOM
•    Promote personal choices and changes that reduce our environmental impacts

Key Activities

•    Continue to advocate for and implement (in cooperation with FMSS and FMC) secure bicycle storage for students at FMC
•    Work with DEA to spread their messages to Flinders SOM, students and FMC
•    Implement and maintain recycling programmes for the student common room

Relevant Partner Organisations and Contacts
•    Doctors for the Environment (Australia)

Conferences and Educational Opportunities
•    AMSA Global Health Conference
•    Involvement in DEA, and DEA SA
•    iDEA conference (30 April – 1 May 2011)