Dr Kate Wylie
GP and Executive Director, Doctors for the Environment Australia
Dr Kate Wylie is a GP and the Executive Director of Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA), a not-for-profit advocacy organisation that recognises that human health depends upon a healthy environment.
Based in Adelaide, Dr Wylie’s work centres on the need for emissions reduction and the protection of biodiversity in order to protect human health, and on the need for sustainability in health care.
A skilled media commentator, Dr Wylie has spoken on television and radio and provided comment for written media on the health impacts of climate change and what we can do to protect ourselves from harm.
Dr Wylie is the immediate past chair of the RACGP’s Climate and Environmental Medicine Specific Interest Group, elevating the need for climate action with GPs across Australia. She is a previous chair of DEA and is the founder of Climate Medicine, an advocacy project whereby she presents to community groups on the health effects of climate change.
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.
“Our planet is worth saving, and so are we.”
Dr Kimberly Humphrey
Emergency Medicine Specialist, Public Health Medical Consultant and Climate Change Lead, SA Health
Kimberly is the 2022-2023 Fellow in Climate Change and Human Health at Harvard University. Kimberly is also a Board member for Doctors for the Environment Australia and past Deputy Chair, immediate past Deputy Chair of the Council of Advocacy, Practice and Partnerships at the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, Board member of the South Australian Board of the Medical Board of Australia and is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Adelaide. Kimberly has specific expertise in research, policy and advocacy at the intersection of climate change and health, emergency medicine and public health, and disaster mitigation and adaptation. She is passionate about driving research in community and health system adaptation to climate change impacts; reframing our health systems toward high quality, low carbon care; and assessing solutions to build resilience as a part of climate change adaptation approaches. Mostly, she is focused on rethinking the status quo because it isn't working for all of our society, and looking towards greener, healthier, happier and more equitable communities and cities.