2012 Environmental Officers:

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

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

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

About the Sub-Committee:

The Environmental Sub-committee was created as a new sub-committee in 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, and to encourage our medical school to lead by example.

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
• Make recycling and access to fairtrade products possible in the student common room
• Work with DEA to spread their messages to Flinders SOM, students and FMC.
• Implement and maintain recycling programmes for the student common room
• Advocate for better recycling at FMC
• Investigate the potential to include the topic of climate change as a health concern in a GEMP1 or 2 PBL case

Key Activities for 2012:

Possible Events/projects for 2012:

Earth Hour Lights Out Dinner (/Drinks) – Sat 31 March

Fairtrade coffee day – Fri 11 May

Tour of Flinders Uni Community Permaculture Garden – Fri 9 March

Relevant Partner Organisations and Contacts:

Doctors for the Environment Australia

Flinders University Community Permaculture Garden

Conferences and Educational Opportunities in 2012:

iDEA Conference (14 & 15^th of April) – *Students full registration $90, partial registration $50

- NT students registration $10

*Cost is earlybird cost, before March 5.

AMSA Global Health Conference
Involvement in DEA, and DEA SA