


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 Claire Pulker
Edith Cowan University
Senior Research Fellow
Mapping the Australian food environment for public health planning: A cross-sectional audit of Perth

Ms Karen Purcell
NSW Food Authority (working on National Allergy Council exhibit)
Programs and Policy Officer
Making it all about allergens: working together for best practice food allergen management

Mr Robert Rantino
Agrifood Technology
National Laboratory Operations Manager
Sampling 101: How to take samples (food, water, environmental) and interpret results

Dr Joey Rawson
Bureau of Meteorology
Senior Meteorologist
Emergency Management / Disaster Risk Reduction

Ms Elizabeth Re
Private Environmental Health Consultant
Did the covid era wake up the community to the value of EHO and Emergency Management planning

Mr Paul Reed
City of South Perth
Environmental Operations Co-ordinator
Technical Tour - Water Sensitive Urban Design

Miss Alysse Regan
Metro South Public Health Unit, Queensland Health
Senior Environmental Health Officer
Campus to Career: How we have changed the way we support our students
Successful prosecution in the vape space

Mr Kim Rodgers
Eurofins
General Manager
Sampling 101: How to take samples (food, water, environmental) and interpret results

Dr Matilde Rodrigues
School of Health, Polytechnic of Porto
Professor
Workforce panel - Environmental health champions?

Prof. Anne Roiko
Griffith University
Professor of Environmental Health
Educators' Forum (Educators only)
Campus to Career: How we have changed the way we support our students

Dr Kirstin Ross
Flinders University
Professor, Environmental Health
Strongyloidiasis needs an environmental health solution not a clinical one
Workforce panel - Environmental health champions?

Ms Maria Said
National Allergy Council
CEO
Making it all about allergens: working together for best practice food allergen management

Ms Sofie Sandberg
Queensland Health
Team Leader, Environmental Health
Melioidosis: A tropical disease outside the tropics – Investigations in Southeast Queensland.

Mr Varinder Sapehiyia
City of Greater Bendigo
Coordinator Environmental Health
21st Century enablers and challenges to Environmental Health Practice in Australia and Worldwide

Mr Matthew Sargeson
Shire of Serpentine Jarrahdale
Coordinator Environmental Health
Wastewater Management Workshop

Mr Krish Seewraj
Department of Water and Environmental Regulation
Senior Water Panner
Wastewater Management Workshop

Dr Mercy Sepadi
Tshwane University of Technology
Lecturer
Respiratory Health Risks and Impacts amongst Informal Food Vendors in Johannesburg, South Africa

Dr Sid Sharma
Department of Health, Western Australia
Public Health Registrar
Projections of heat-related mortality in Perth

Lindsay Shaw
Ulster University
Course Director BSc Environmental Health
Workforce panel - Environmental health champions?

Ms Shelley Shepherd
New WAter Ways
Program Manager and Director
Technical Tour - Water Sensitive Urban Design

Dr Alexander Shivarev
WA Health
Public Health Registrar
Indoor mould health risk assessment and management of indoor mould post-flooding

Ms Tracy Smith
Department of Health
Principal Project Officer
Adapting the WA Health Sector for the changing climate

Ms Haylee Sneesby
Sydney local Health District
Environmental Health Officer
Environmental Health field response during public health outbreaks: three cases studies in Sydney

Miss Jessica Speechly
Blacktown City Council
Senior Coordinator Environmental Health
Asbestos in the air – from triple 0 to EHO

Mr Philip Swain
Philip Swain Consulting
National President
Emergency Management / Disaster Risk Reduction
Integrating Environmental Health within the UN Disaster Risk Reduction (Sendai) Framework







