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The TRI Sustainability Symposium will be held as an online event on Monday 7 March 2022.
Chaired by Prof John Upham from Metro South Health and Hayley Candler from the TRI Sustainability Committee and UQ, this event will highlight the latest sustainability initiatives that are being implemented at other medical research institutes across the globe, as well as what we can do to reduce our own environmental footprint closer to home.
The program features a dynamic line up of speakers, who will speak to the theme ‘Research and a Sustainable Environment’.
Program
Monday 7 March 2022 |
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3:15PM - 4:45PM |
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Introduction Professor John Upham |
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Sustainability -Views and actions in a university setting Professor Kerrie Wilson |
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Sustainability for Scientists -The environmental footprint of research Professor Teun Bousema |
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TRI Sustainability Initiatives Mrs Hayley Candler |
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Health Professionals as Advocates for Environmental Sustainability Associate Professor Linda Selvey |
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Panel Discussion |
Speakers
Professor John Upham (Symposium Co-Chair)
Chair, Metro South Research; Professor of Respiratory Medicine The University of Queensland - Diamantina Institute & PA-Southside Clinical Unit; President, Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand
John Upham is a respiratory physician and clinician scientist who is interested in immune dysfunction in lung diseases, vaccination, and the effects of air pollution on lung health.
John currently holds appointments with Princess Alexandra Hospital and the University of Queensland and is the Chair of Metro South Research. He is the President of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand.
Mrs Hayley Candler (Symposium Co-chair)
TRI Sustainability Committee, Australasian Kidney Trials Network (AKTN) & Centre for Health Services Research, The University of Queensland
Hayley Candler is the Clinical Trial Assistant for the Australasian Kidney Trials Network (AKTN) at the Centre for Health Services Research Queensland. She was previously a Research Officer at the University of New South Wales, and has been working in medical research institutes for over 15 years. Hayley is a founding member of the TRI Sustainability Committee and is passionate about seeking workable solutions to everyday environmental problems.
Professor Teun Bousema
Professor in Epidemiology of Tropical Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Centre, The Netherlands
Teun Bousema is a professor in the Epidemiology of Tropical Infectious Diseases at Radboud university medical center (the Netherlands) and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (UK) and a member of the prestigious Academia Europaea. He has initiated several sustainability initiatives at his host institution and is currently leading the development of an ambitious new academic travel policy in the Netherlands.
Associate Professor Linda Selvey
Associate Professor School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
Linda Selvey is a public health physician and an infectious diseases epidemiologist. She previously worked for Queensland Health in senior positions, including as Executive Director, Population Health Queensland. She has also previously worked as CEO of Greenpeace Australia Pacific. She returned to academia at Curtin University's School of Public Health in 2012, and commenced in UQ's School of Public Health in 2017. She is passionate about protecting human health from the impacts of the climate crisis and her research interests include hepatitis C treatment in marginalised populations, increasing vaccine uptake, Clostridium difficile epidemiology and the health impacts of climate change.
Professor Kerrie Wilson
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Sustainability Strategy), Queensland University of Technology
Kerrie Wilson is the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Sustainability Strategy) at Queensland University of Technology and Affiliated Professor at The University of Copenhagen. Kerrie was previously the Executive Director of the QUT Institute for Future Environments, and the Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions and an ARC Future Fellow at The University of Queensland. She is the Australian Natural Sciences Commissioner for UNESCO, a member of the Australian Heritage Council and the Great Barrier Reef 2050 Plan Independent Expert Panel. Kerrie has two decades of experience leading and conducting research. She is particularly interested in applied resource allocation problems, such as how to invest limited resources to protect or restore biodiversity. Kerrie has received numerous national awards, including the Prime Minister's Prize for Life Scientist of the Year and the Australian Academy of Science Nancy Millis Medal for Women in Science.
