


Meet Our Keynote Presenters
Dr Paul ArmstrongWA Department of Health
Acting Chief Health Officer of Western Australia and Acting Assistant Director General of the Public and Aboriginal Health Division
Keynote
Dr. Jesse BlissNational Environmental Health Association
Director PPD Department
Emergency Management / Disaster Risk Reduction
Disaster risk reduction and environmental health attributes
Integrating Environmental Health within the UN Disaster Risk Reduction (Sendai) Framework
Hon Assoc Prof Leanne CoombePublic Health Association of Australia
Policy and Advocacy Manager
WHO Public Health and Emergency Preparedness Workforce Roadmap
Emeritus Professor Mike DaubeCurtin University
Emeritus Professor
We can all make a difference – what works in public and environmental health advocacy?
Dr. David DyjackNational Environmental Health Assn
Chief Executive Officer
The Isthmus
Workforce panel - Environmental health champions?
Integrating Environmental Health within the UN Disaster Risk Reduction (Sendai) Framework
Hon Ged Kearney MPParliament of Australia
Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care
Opening of Congress
Prof Peter Le SouefUniversity of Western Australia
Professor of Paediatrics
Correcting UN data on global child mortality for the effects of environmental deterioration
Mr Simon MillmanParliament of Western Australia
State Member for Mount Lawley and Parliamentary Secretary to the Hon. Amber-Jade Sanderson MLA, Minister for Health; Mental Health
WA Government response to threats from tobacco/vaping
Professor Virginia MurrayUK Health Security Agency
Head of Global Disaster Risk Reduction
Disaster Risk Reduction – the importance of Environmental Health
Prof Sotiris VardoulakisUniversity of Canberra
Professor of Environmental Public Health and Director of the Healthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) Global Research Centre
Environmental and Climate Change Impacts on Human Health – Time for Action
A/Prof Aditya VyasUniversity of Canberra
Deputy Director, Healthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) Global Research Centre
A new era of environmental health practice for climate resilient health systems
Dr Mara WestTelethon Kids Institute
Kulunga Aboriginal Unit Coordinator
Environmental and Climate Change Impacts on Human Health – Time for Action
Hon. Reece Whitby MLAParliament of Western Australia
Minister for Energy; Environment; Climate Action
Day 2 Opening
Meet Our Speakers

Dr James Malusha
Catholic University of Eastern Africa
Lecturer
Prevalence and Challenges of Risk of Aflatoxin Contamination of Household Maize in Kenya

Miss Constance Tembisa Manciya
Alfred Nzo District Municipality
Manager: Municipal Health Services
Environmental Health in Alfred Nzo District

Ms Yashvee Manrakhan-Field
Department of Health WA
Senior Scientific Officer
Emergency Management / Disaster Risk Reduction
Managing environmental health risks - Total Solar Eclipse 2023

Mr. Nicodemus Masila
Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania
PhD (Medical studies) candidate - School Food policy, Food safety/Allergy and Anaphylaxis management and local food procurement.
Managing Allergy and Anaphylaxis in Australia's first State-wide Tasmanian School Lunch Project.

Mr David McNicoll
Bundaberg Regional Council
Branch Manager Health and Regulatory Services
Emergency Management / Disaster Risk Reduction
Are mistakes our greatest teachers (exploring the benefits of someone else’s hindsight).

Mr Simon Millman
Parliament of Western Australia
State Member for Mount Lawley and Parliamentary Secretary to the Hon. Amber-Jade Sanderson MLA, Minister for Health; Mental Health
WA Government response to threats from tobacco/vaping

Mr Graeme Mitchell
Liverpool John Moores University
Senior lecturer
Workforce panel - Environmental health champions?

Mrs Evie Molson
City of Kalamunda
Environmental Health Project Officer and Remote EHO Contractor
Feral Pigs: Unconventional ways EHO’s manage mosquito risks in the metro area

Ms Sharonna Mossenson
Curtin University
PhD Candidate
Unmonitored and unsuitable: An audit of food donations to an Australian food bank

Prof Lutendo Sylvia Mudau
Tshwane University of Technology
Associate Professor Environmental Health
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Risk Factors Associated with Diarrhea Prevalence in Young Children

Ms Lisa Mundy
Gold Coast Public Health Unit - Queensland Health
Environmental Health Officer
Not just a plant pathogen - Pantoea infections with office plant origins and clinical practice

Professor Virginia Murray
UK Health Security Agency
Head of Global Disaster Risk Reduction
Disaster Risk Reduction – the importance of Environmental Health

Mr Stephen Musarapasi
Zimbabwe Environmental Health Practitioners Association
Former President (2016-2021)
An entomological survey of the simian malaria vectors and their plasmodium parasites in Thailand.

Mrs Glenys Nicholls
Latrobe Council
Environmental Health Officer
Case Study -Seasonal Workers Accommodation - "Not Fit For Purpose"

Mrs Vicki O'Donnell
Aboriginal Health Council of WA
Chairperson
Co-designing an Aboriginal Environmental Health model of care to close the gap

Ms Carla Ogle
Logan City Council
Environmental Health Services Coodinator
The costs of dealing with hoarding

Mr Daniel Osborne
City of Casey
Head of Public Health
Unregistered Food Premises Project
Innovative Service Delivery through Environmental Health Shared Service

Ms Enita Ostojic
Western Australia Department of Health
Senior Scientific Officer
Australian Food Safety Journey: From Indigenous Food to Cultured Meat

Mr Eugene Paewai
Department of Mines, Industry Regulations and Safety
Inspector
Do Asian pre-packaged food labels comply? Yes / No

Mrs Cherie Parkyn
Logan City Council
Environmental Health and Immunisation Program Leader
Transforming Environmental Health Practice for a new era

Mrs Sandra Peroni
Queensland Health
A/Principal Investigations Officer
Melioidosis: A tropical disease outside the tropics – Investigations in Southeast Queensland.

Mr Giles Pickard
City of Canning
Principal Landscape Architect
Technical Tour - Water Sensitive Urban Design

Miss Rahaney Poelina
Nirrumbuk Environmental Health and Services Ltd Pty
RHD Project Officer & Environmental Health Practitioner
RHD and Environmental Health in Remote Aboriginal Communities: A Holistic Approach with Prevention

Associate Professor Christina Pollard
Curtin
Director, Public Health Advocacy Institute
Food inequality, potential solutions & challenges for environmental health

Miss Jayde Porter
Gold Coast Public Health Unit
Environmental Health Officer
Vapes, the Fog is Lifting

Dr Abbey Potter
WA Department of Health
Medical Entomologist
Enhanced surveillance for Japanese encephalitis virus in Western Australia






