Podcasts
Climate change through a disaster medicine lens, with Prof George Braitberg AM
Professor George Braitberg AM
Vol 217, Issue 8: 10 October 2022. Professor George Braitberg AM is Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Melbourne and Austin Hospital. He is also the Emergency Medicine Head of the Centre for Integrated Critical Care Medicine. He talks about the way we can think about and respond to climate change through the lens of disaster medicine. To accompany his MJA Perspective published here. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 15 mins, 52 secs.
Taking climate change action, with Professor Hugh Montgomery
Professor Hugh Montgomery
Vol 215, Issue 9: 25 October 2021. Professor Hugh Montgomery is an intensive care specialist and Director of the Centre for Human Health and Performance at University College London. A long-time climate change advocate, Professor Montgomery talks about the prospects for COP26 and what individual doctors and health care systems can do to mitigate the damage done. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell. To accompany the MJA-Lancet Countdown report at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/2...
MJA-Lancet Countdown report, with A/Prof Paul Beggs
Associate Professor Paul Beggs
Vol 211, Issue 10: 14 November 2019. Associate Professor Paul Beggs is an environmental health scientist from Macquarie University, and a lead author on the MJA-Lancet Countdown 2019 report into climate change. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell. 14mins, 14 secs.
MJA-Lancet Countdown on climate change, with A/Prof Paul Beggs
Associate Professor Paul Beggs
Vol 209, Issue 11: 3 December 2018. Associate Professor Paul Beggs is an environmental health scientist at Macquarie University, and a coauthor of the MJA-Lancet Countdown on climate change and health. He discusses Australia's vulnerabilities, policies and progress. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell. 15m 50s
Drought-related stress, with Ms Emma Austin and Prof David Perkins
Ms Emma Austin and Professor David Perkins
Vol 209, Issue 3: 30 July 2018. Emma Austin is with the Centre for Climate, Water and Land at the University of Newcastle. Professor David Perkins is Director of UON's Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health. They talk about drought-related stress with MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.
The science and health impacts of climate change, with Dr Liz Hanna
Dr Elizabeth Hanna
Vol 208, Issue 7: 9 April 2018. Dr Liz Hanna is Honorary Senior Fellow at ANU's Climate Change Institute. She talks about the evidence and impact of climate change in Australia. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.