NHAA Webinar Series

DR DWAN VILCINS

Topic: Topical issues in Environmental Health
When: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Time: 6:00pm AEST

Our lives are intrinsically linked with our environment, which offers both benefits and challenges to our health status.

This talk will highlight topical issues in environmental health of relevance to clinicians. The information will span air pollution exposure in the home, how climate change will interact with environmental exposures, and the external exposure to internal pathway relevant to clinical practice.

Key takeaways:

• The home environment is frequently a major site of air pollution exposure, and every day activities can dramatically affect our air quality
• Children are at increased risk of environmental exposure
• Climate change is expected to worsen many environmental hazards, and some interventions need careful planning as they can create additional risk
• Research is underway to explore the internal pathways that mediate adverse effects, and complementary medicine practitioners have a role in addressing these

ABOUT DR DWAN VILCINS

Dr Dwan Vilcins is the Group Leader Environmental Epidemiology at the Children’s Health and Environment Program at The University of Queensland. Dr Vilcins’ and her team explore the effect of environmental exposures on children’s health, with a current focus on air pollution, environmentally persistent free radicals, green space and plastic chemicals. Dr Vilcins leads the NHMRC funded EMBER study exploring the effect of bushfire smoke on health outcomes. In addition to her PhD and Master of Public Health, Dr Vilcins has a background in naturopathy. Currently Dr Vilcins is a fellow of the International Society for Children’s Health and the Environment, a board member for the Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health, an advisor to Breath Melbourne, and is an advocate for the Greener Spaces Better Places initiative

Cost: $46 AUD for members – $62 AUD for non-members – $31 AUD Student Members