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Heat and Health: Summer preparedness in general practice

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Type: On-demand
Recorded: 10 Dec 2024

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Heat and Health: Summer preparedness in general practice

On-demand recorded 10 Dec 2024

This webinar aims to refresh NSW GPs on heat-related health impacts. The session will address the identification of high-risk groups for heat related illness, upskill on the physiological impacts of heat, and provide effective methods to reduce heat-related illness.

Learning outcomes

Identify groups at high-risk from heat related illness.
Discuss the impacts of heat on thermoregulation and physiology.
Discuss the impact of medications on thermoregulation.
Apply current evidence-based recommendations and prevention messaging to reduce risk of heat related illness in high-risk patients.

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Facilitator

Dr Peter Tait
General Practitioner, Senior Clinical Lecturer, School of Medicine and Psychology, Australian National University

Peter Tait has been a General Practitioner for over 40 years, 30 of them in Aboriginal health in Central Australia. He was 2007 RACGP General Practitioner of the Year and 2017 Public Health Association Australia Sidney Sax medalist. He teaches Population Health at ANU. He previously co-convened the PHAA Ecology and Environment Special Interest Group. He convenes the Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy. Peter believes a person’s wellbeing is grounded in a well society, and a well society in a well-functioning ecosystem. Peter believes good government is essential to protect and promote wellbeing and the public good.

Speakers

Dr Sam Daneshjoo
General Practitioner & Medical Advisor, Health Protection NSW

Dr Sam Daneshjoo is a medical advisor in the Environmental Health Branch of NSW Health. She is a 2022 RACGP fellow and has previously worked in general practice in Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains. She has a masters in public health and a masters in health leadership and management is currently working towards her fellowship in public health medicine.

Professor Ollie Jay
Professor of Heat and Health & Director - Heat and Health Research Centre

Ollie Jay is Professor of Heat and Health and Director of the Heat and Health Research Centre at the University of Sydney. Ollie is a NHMRC Leadership Fellow and has led several large-scale projects that have directly influenced international public health heatwave policies internationally. He recently partnered with Google to deliver his team's research on evidence-based personal cooling strategies worldwide through automated heat warning alerts in Google Chrome. He has led extreme heat policy development for a variety of sports including Tennis Australia (Australian Open), and was the Lead Heat Consultant for the Australian Olympic Team at the Paris 2024 games. In 2021, Ollie co-led the first-ever Series on Heat and Health in The Lancet. He has also published his research in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Lancet Planetary Health, and Nature Communications. Since 2024, Ollie has served as a Global Working Group Chair for the Lancet Countdown on Climate Change and Health.

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