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Wylie, Kate

Dr Kate Wylie

General Practitioner; Executive Director, Doctors for the Environment Australia; Immediate Past Chair, Climate and Environmental Medicine Specific Interest Group, RACGP; Former Chair, Doctors for the Environment Australia
Dr Kate Wylie is the Executive Director of Doctors for the Environment Australia.

Dr Wylie is a GP and our Executive Director. Based in Adelaide (Tarndanya), she knows that climate change is a health issue and believes that when we frame it this way, we invite the concept of treating it. She believes that doctors have a key role to play in shaping the communities response to the climate crisis. By showing leadership on climate, doctors can show our communities the importance of climate action to protect the health of humanity and the planet upon which we rely.

Dr Wylie is the immediate past Chair of the RACGP’s Climate and Environmental Medicine Specific Interest Group, elevating the need for climate action among GPs across Australia. She is also and a former Chair of DEA. In all her work, Dr Wylie applies a medical model to the climate crisis and as such offers a treatment plan for climate change. She seeks to activate her audience so they can help create the paradigm shift that we need to combat the climate crisis.

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Climate change as a health emergency: Local and global impacts

In today's episode, the expert panel provides a timely discussion linking climate change to patient health, humanitarian crises and the responsibility of clinicians to respond.

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