Conference Agenda
Monday, Feb 22, 2016
"Eco-Friendly Hospitals For A Sustainable World"
08:15 - 09:15 Registration & Poster presentation
09:15 - 09:30 Opening remarks by:
Dr Jeanette Young, the Chief Health Officer, Queensland Department of Health
Dr Jeanette Young, the Chief Health Officer, Queensland Department of Health
Dr Chin-Lon Lin, Chair, Task Force on HPH and Environment - International Health Promoting Hospital Network
Session I : Keynote - Green Technology and sustainable strategies for Planetary Health
Chair: Prof Ying-Wei Wang, Secretary of Taiwan Health Promoting Hospitals Society
09:30 - 10:00 Green Technology and Sustainable Strategies for Planetary Health
Prof Ned Panhkurst, Deputy Vice Chancellor-Research, Griffith University
10:00 - 10:30 The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement and Implications for the Health Sector
Fiona Armstrong, Executive Director, Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA)
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea
Session II : Hospitals and Sustainable Practices
Chair: Prof Ying-Wei Wang, Secretary of Taiwan Health Promoting Hospitals Society
11:00 - 11:20 Do No Harm- Roles and Responsibilities of the Health Sector in the Protection of the Environment
Faye V. Ferrer, Coordinator of Global Green and Healthy Hospital, Health Care WIthout Harm Asia
11:20 - 11:40 Tackling Climate Change in Tzu Chi Hospital
Dr Ming-Nan Lin, Vice Superintendent of Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Tzu Chi Medical Foundation
11:40 - 12:00 Sustainabily Management: The Australia Mater Health Services Experience
Chris Hill, Director of Environmental Sustainability, The Australian Mater Health Services
12:00 - 13:00 Panel discussion
Matt Power, Group Manager of Energy & Environment, St. Vincent's Health Australia
13:00 - 13:45 Lunch
13:45 - 14:30 Sharing of good practices - Sustainability strategies at Griffith University (Walking tour)
Session III : Health Promoting Hospitals: Development and Knowledge sharing of good practices
Chair: Fiona Armstrong, Climate and Health Alliance
14:30 - 15:00 International Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services Network: What do we mean by Good Practices?
Dr Sally Fawkes, La Trobe University. Coordinator of International HPH Network Victoris-Australia Chapter
15:00 - 15:20 The Opportunities and Challenges for a Sustainable Healthy Living
Prof Yie Ru Chiu, Associate professor of Tzu Chi University, Taiwan
15:20 - 15:40 Promoting Green at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital - Team Synergy
Gladys Wong, Chief Dietitian & Senior Manager of Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Alexandra Health, Singapore
15:40 - 16:00 Afternoon tea
Session IV : Challenges and Trends in Health Promoting Hospitals
Chair: Dr Sally Fawkes, International Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services Network, Victoria
16:00 - 16:20 Climate Leadership in Health Sector
Dr Ying-Wei Wang, member of advisory group, the Task Force on HPH & Environment
16:20 - 16:40 Hospital Waste Management Policy and Practices
Dr Sunil Herat, Griffith School of Engineering, International Expert on Waste Management
16:40 - 17:30 Experience and dicussion forum:
Capacity Building Needs for Development of Health Promoting Hospitals.
Dr Huang Lien Nguyen, Director of Vietnam Health Environment Management Agency, Ministry of Health
Development of Health Promoting Hospitals in Zhejiang Province, China
Mr Lei Wang, CDC Zhejiang Province
17:15 - 18:00 Networking & Poster Display
18:00 - 20:00 Conference Dinner
Tuesday, Feb 23, 2016
"Disaster and Emergency Management by the Health Care Sector"
08:30 - 09:15 Registration & Poster presentation
Session V : Keynote - Key challenges for DIsaster and Emergency Management by the Health Sector
09:15 - 09:45 Iain S Mackenzie, Deputy Commisioner, Inspecktor General Emergency Management, Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES)
09:45 - 10:15 All together now: A case for enchanced thinking on interoperability among response agencies in complex disasters
Dr Paul Barnes, Head of Risk and Resilience, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
10:15 - 10:45 Black, Green, Blue and Red - The Colors of Disaster Management in a World of Climate Change
Prof Peter Aitken, Senior Director Health Disaster Management Unit, Aeromedical Retrieval and Disaster Management Branch, Queensland Health
10:45 - 11:00 Morning Tea
Session VI : Disaster Management of Extreme Event - Experience from the health sectors from Asia-Pacific Region
11:00 - 11:20 Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
Mr Wayne Ulrich, Senior Advisor for Risk Reduction, Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation, Save the Children, Phillipines.
11:20 - 11:40 Tzu Chi's Footprint of Love in Nepal
Dr Sou-Hsin Chien, Superintendent of Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital
11:40 - 12:00 Multi-stakeholder Partnership Between Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation to Deal with Flood Risk in Jakarta, Indonesia
Dr Febi Dwirahmadi, Centre of Environment and Population Health, Griffith University
12:00 - 12:30 Panel dicussion (Flood, Earthquake, Fire, Volcano, etc)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch & Poster Presentation
Session VII : Emergency management of Infections Disease Outbreak
13:30 - 14:00 Pandemic Responses: Experience from Queensland
Dr Sonya Bennet, Chief Health Officer & Deputy Director-General, QLD Department of Health
14:00 - 14:30 Challenges and Preparedness for Emerging Zoonotic Diseases
Dr Heidi Carroll, Medical Director, Communicable Disease Branch, QLD Health
14:35 - 14:50 One World, One Health - The Global Health Security Issues requiring Multidiciplinary, Cross-sectoral Actions againts Emerging Infectious Disease
Mr Noore Alam, Advance Epidemiologist/ Manager - Evidence and Evaluation, Dept of Health QLD Government
14:50 - 15:05 Risk Communication for Emergency Management of Pandemic Prevention and Control in China: A comparative case study of SARS and H7N9
Mr Wuqi Qiu, Director, Dept of Public Health Information, The Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and PhD candidate of CEPH
Session VII : Needs of Health Care Sector to meet challenges in the context of Climate Change
15:00 - 15:15 Conference summary
15:30 - 16:00 Reception co-sponsored by the Griffith Climate Change Response Program, INTERSAVE & Routledge Publisher
16:00 - 17:00 Book Launch: Climate Risk and Resilience in China
17:00 - 18:00 Film Lauch: Silent Achivers: Public Health and Emergency Management in a Climate Changing World