Local doctors and members of Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) will be running a Health and Climate Community Forum at Avalon Surf Life Saving Club on 19 February at 7pm.
DEA said they are seeing the impacts of our changing climate in their surgeries and will speak about how global warming is affecting the health of everyone in our community.
According to the DEA, the Beaches community is being directly affected by climate change by more frequent and severe hot weather, storms and bushfires.
DEA doctors say heat has significant impacts on our health, including mental health, and on those with chronic diseases. Children, older people and those with a disability are especially vulnerable. Apart from the immediate risks from bushfires to people and places we love, bushfire smoke can travel well beyond its source and impact our health, with poor air quality exacerbating respiratory illnesses.
Speakers at the forum include Independent MP for Mackellar Dr Sophie Scamps, professor of psychiatry at the University of Sydney and local resident Anthony Harris, Neurologist Dr Shaun Watson and Dr Kate Wylie, General Practitioner and executive director of Doctors for the Environment Australia.
Tickets on a ‘pay as you can afford’ basis are available here.