

🎤 Speakers:
Debbie Rigby – Asthma & climate impacts, low-carbon therapies, sustainable care
Dr. Emma Leigh Synnott – Planetary health, healthcare’s climate role, adaptation strategies
Think Before You Test – South Metropolitan Health Service campaign to reduce unnecessary pathology testing and its carbon footprint.
Canberra: ANU Auditorium, Canberra Hospital
Perth: Fiona Stanley Education Building
Online: Anywhere in Australia (or the world 😊)
11am–3pm (AEST) | 9am–1pm (AWST)
Emma Leigh Synott, Consultant Physician in Rehabilitation Medicine, Fiona Stanley Hospital Perth
Emma is a dog-and-chicken-mum, medical doctor, educator, researcher, community organiser, co-weaver, co-conspirator, abolitionist, and actionist working at the intersections of Human and planetary health and wellbeing, social justice, and health and care services. Along with many other roles, she works as a Consultant Physician in Rehabilitation at Fiona Stanley Hospital in the Spinal Injury unit and is the Medical lead for climate health and environmental sustainability at Fiona Stanley Fremantle Hospital Group
Debbie Rigby, Clinical Executive Lead, National Asthma Council Australia
Debbie Rigby is the Clinical Executive Lead at National Asthma Council Australia. She is a member of Pharmaceutical Society of Australia Respiratory Community of Special Interest and Respiratory Pharmacy Taskforce, Lung Foundation Australia COPD Advisory Committee and Primary Care Committee, Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, Primary Care Respirator Society UK, and the International Primary Care Respiratory Group. The Lung Foundation Australia honoured Debbie as the 2023 Lung Health Legend.
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