Climate change and health: preparing for the next disaster
REPORTby Stephen Duckett, Will Mackey and Anika Stobart
Australia is getting hotter, and Australians’ health is being harmed. Our health sector must do more to adapt to the reality of climate change.
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Health Program Director
Stephen DuckettDr Stephen Duckett has held top operational and policy leadership positions in health care in Australia and Canada, including as Secretary of what is now the Commonwealth Department of Health. He has a reputation for creativity, evidence-based innovation and reform in areas ranging from the introduction of activity-based funding for hospitals to new systems of accountability for the safety of hospital care. An economist, he is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
Information about Stephen Duckett’s academic publications are available on Google Scholar.
Program Topics
Reports
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6 December 2020
Climate change and health: preparing for the next disaster -
29 November 2020
Reforming aged care: a practical plan for a rights-based system -
4 October 2020
Rethinking aged care: emphasising the rights of older Australians -
3 September 2020
Go for zero: How Australia can get to zero COVID-19 cases -
28 June 2020
The Recovery Book: what Australian governments should do now
News & Opinion
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28 December 2020
Australia’s aged care industry needs to be rebuilt from the ground up -
16 December 2020
The extra money for aged care is welcome, but not enough -
7 December 2020
How to build a carbon-neutral healthcare system -
6 December 2020
Climate change is already doing its deadly work. And there is worse to come. -
6 December 2020
Climate change is happening now. It is damaging our health now. It requires action now.
Podcasts
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7 December 2020
Climate change and health: preparing for the next disaster – Podcast -
30 November 2020
Reforming aged care: a practical plan for a rights-based system – Podcast -
9 October 2020
Hard hat or hard-hit? Evaluating the 2020 Federal Budget – Podcast -
5 October 2020
Rethinking aged care: emphasising the rights of older Australians – Podcast
Submissions
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12 October 2020
Australia needs to rethink capital financing of residential aged care -
18 September 2020
Lessons from Victoria’s COVID-19 failures -
16 June 2020
The consequences of private involvement in healthcare -
1 May 2020
Learning the lessons from the 2019-20 bushfires
Presentations
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26 November 2020
Charting the long fight against COVID-19 -
15 November 2020
Grattan’s work to improve Australia’s health system -
28 April 2020
The role of boards during the pandemic -
4 December 2019
Saving private health
Events
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27 November 2020
Rethinking Aged Care – Webinar Event -
06 July 2020
How Australia can recover from the COVID-19 crisis – Webinar event -
10 June 2020
Webinar Event: How our health system can be better after the pandemic -
27 March 2020
The economic, budgetary and health impacts of COVID-19: webinar -
25 November 2019
Can private health insurance be saved from the jaws of death? – Canberra