Re-thinking Sustainable Health in Aotearoa
22–23 June 2021, Wellington, New Zealand
The Sustainable Healthcare and Climate Health Aotearoa Conference 2021 is open to anybody interested in ensuring the health sector in New Zealand creates an equitable pathway to carbon neutrality by 2025 in line with the new public sector target recently announced by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
The programme will include presentations and interactive discussions focusing on our carbon reduction work and the opportunities it presents to create a better and more sustainable future for all New Zealanders. Sustainable healthcare can bring wide co-benefits to health, health equity and well-being and the conference will address topics of mitigation, adaptation, risk, opportunity, and innovation.
Delegates will include clinicians, nurses, doctors, policymakers, researchers, architects, consultants, sustainability champions, operational managers, suppliers, procurement agencies, board members and students – all keen to create a healthy planet that supports healthy people.
Speakers will include national and international experts and a wide range of stakeholders from the New Zealand health sector, DHBs, and research sector. Details of the programme and keynote speakers will be announced shortly.
Call for abstracts
The Sustainable Healthcare and Climate Health Aotearoa Conference invites experts, researchers, up-and-coming leaders and sustainability champions to submit abstracts for presentation (in person or virtually) at our annual conference in Wellington on 22–23 June 2021.
The theme is 'Re-thinking Sustainable Health in Aotearoa'.
With a broad scope, abstracts detailing sustainability and healthcare, climate change and health, research, innovation, or best practice will be taken into consideration to create the varied two-day programme. The committee would be particularly interested to receive abstracts from indigenous and Pasifika perspectives and abstracts within a sustainable healthcare and health delivery context.
Possible examples include the following topics:
- Rethinking healthcare practice
- Sustainable food systems
- Sustainable infrastructure
- Sustainable transport
- Sustainable supply chains and procurement
- Reducing emissions from transit; energy (efficiency and/or renewables)
- Offsetting
- Communication and collaboration
The deadline for abstracts is: 11 April 2021
Submissions requirements: Name, Organisation, Email address, Title of presentation, Abstract (max. 400 words)
Please send your abstract to: wellington-events@otago.ac.nz
Abstracts will be reviewed by the organising committee. Acceptance will be based on content, available space, and overall programme balance.
| Date | Tuesday, 22 June 2021 - Wednesday, 23 June 2021 |
|---|---|
| Time | 9:00am - 5:00pm |
| Audience | All University,Alumni,Allied health professionals |
| Event Type |
Conference |
| Campus | Wellington |
| Department | Preventive and Social Medicine (Dunedin) |
| Location | Nordmeyer Theatre, Level D, University of Otago, Wellington, 23A Mein Street, Newtown, Wellington |
| Cost | TBC – will supply this information in due course |
| Contact Name | Faith Atkins |
| Contact Phone | +64 4 918 6301 |
| Contact Email | wellington-events@otago.ac.nz |
