Dr Alice McGushin

Alice McGushin is a medical doctor with expertise in public health and climate change. She is the Assistant Director at the National Health, Sustainability and Climate Unit in the Government of Australia Department of Health and Aged Care and an ACT public health registrar. She leads the delivery of Objective 2 (health system decarbonisation) and Objective 3 (international collaboration) as well as the mitigation and health co-benefits aspects of Objective 4 (health in all policies) of the National Health and Climate Strategy.

She was previously an academic public health registrar in East of England and the MRCEpidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Technical Advisor to the Greener NHS, Programme Manager for the Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change and co-led the World Organization of Family Doctors Air Health Train the Trainer Program.

Prof Eugenie Kayak

Eugenie Kayak is the Enterprise Professor in Sustainable Healthcare at the Melbourne Medical School and a consultant anaesthetist in public (Alfred and Austin) and private practice. Eugenie has worked with Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA), ANZCA, the Australian Medical Association (AMA), government and wider medical profession for over a decade, to raise awareness of, influence policy and address, the health impacts of climate change and environmental degradation – including health care’s own impact. She was a member of the Australian Chief Medical Officer Advisory Group for development of Australia’s first National Health and Climate Strategy, is Deputy Director of The University of Melbourne Climate CATCH (Collaborative Action for Transformative Change in Health and Healthcare) Lab, Co-Convenor of National Sustainable Health Care SIG for DEA and Deputy Chair of ANZCA’s Environment Sustainability Network.