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About the Conference - Wednesday 25th to Friday 27th of March 2009
You are invited to attend the Healthy Cities
Conference on the Gold Coast, which will be a
platform for Government and Industry sector
professionals to consider health, sustainability,
natural resource management, climate change and
the implications for public policy.
Participants will also
examine issues that effect Federal, State and Local
Government agencies. The future will
present some exciting challenges , what do we need
to meet these challenges and how will it effect the
way we live and work?
Making Cities Liveable
The Conference will feature keynote presentations along
with four concurrent streams, each designed to
address the Conference themes:
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Managing population and economic growth - what
is sustainable?
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Climate Change
Adaptation
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Managing Communicable Disease Outbreaks -
Health Security
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Population Health Management - immunisation, bio security, food safety and
epidemic control
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Waste Reuse Technologies, what the future looks
like
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Managing Natural Resources
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City Design - designing changes to urban life
to encourage
Physical Activity, Healthy Cities
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Disaster Management - public welfare - recovery
and rebuild
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Managing Legislation and Policy
Who Should Attend
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Policy makers
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Politicians
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Senior public servants
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City Governance personnel
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Public Health Administrators
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Academics
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Waste Management Professionals
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Natural Resources Administrators
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Planning Professionals
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Environmental Groups
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Call For Abstracts
You are invited to submit an abstract for the
conference.
Important Dates:
Abstract submission open until the 30th December
2008.
All speakers notified of the status of their
submission by the 7th Janurary 2009
Provisional programme published 12th January 2009 on
this website.
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Keynote Speakers Include:
Dr Peter
Davey
Deputy Director -
Centre for Environment and Population Health
Griffith University
Professor Evelyne de Leeuw
Chair of
Health and Social Development, and Associate Dean
(Development and
Partnerships) for the Faculty of Health, Medicine,
Nursing and Behavioural Sciences at Deakin
University
Ms Di Jay
Chief Executive - Planning Institute of Australia
Mr
Philip Follent
Queensland Government Architect
Dr John
Coulter
President - Sustainable
Population Australia (SPA)
A/Professor
Elizabeth Eckermann
Chair in History,
Heritage & Society, Deakin University and consultant
to the WHO.
Ms Lillias Bovell
National President - Waste Management Association of
Australia.
Mr Tim Power
Freehills Partner, BA (Jur), LLM (Env)
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