Exiting the consumptogenic system
On the 10th of October 2024, Stretton Health Equity in conjunction with the Environment Institute presented听Exiting the consumptogenic system听with guest speaker听Professor Sharon Friel, Australian National University.听
Professor Friel's presentation was followed by a panel discussion with Dr Ariella Helfgott, Director Strategic Foresight, Department of the Premier and Cabinet and Professor Melissa Nursey-Bray, School of Social Sciences, 成人大片. The event was chaired by Professor Fran Baum, Director, Stretton Health Equity, 成人大片.
To watch a recording of the event, click .
About the speaker:
Professor Sharon Friel is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of Health Equity. She is Director of the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse, and the Australian Research Centre for Health Equity (ARCHE) at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia and the Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. Previously, she was Director of RegNet from 2014-2019, and Head of the Scientific Secretariat (University College London) of the World Health Organisation Commission on the Social Determinants of Health between 2005 and 2008. In 2014, her international peers voted her one of the world鈥檚 most influential female leaders in global health. Her interests are in the political economy of health equity; governance of the social, commercial and planetary determinants of health inequities; climate change, food systems, trade and investment. Her 2019 book 鈥淐limate Change and the People鈥檚 Health鈥 highlights the importance of addressing the global consumptogenic system.
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