The Inaugural HEAL 2021 Healthy Environments and Lives Conference was a 2-day virtual and live event held on 17th – 18th November, 2021. The HEAL 2021 Conference was delivered in a hybrid mode in Brisbane, QLD; Adelaide, SA; Perth, WA; and Hobart, TAS.

The Conference was an inclusive, diverse, distributed, interactive, and free event consisting of:

To view the full 2021 programme and the abstract book, please click the buttons below.

Posters

COVID-19 and Climate Change – Present Discourse and Future Pathways

Ullrich Ecker et al.

How Effective Do Heatwave Definitions Capture Mental Health Outcomes? A Population-based Longitudinal Investigation from Rural Australia

Tuyen T. Luong et al.

We Know Drought Affects Mental Health but the Devil Is in the Details

Tuyen T. Luong et al.

Mental Health, Exposure Severity and Resilience – Building After the 2019-2020 Black Summer Bushfires

Tuyen T. Luong et al.

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Extending Conservation Engagement Through Collaboration Between Art and Science

Asthma and Antihistamine Medicine Use Is Associated with Biomarker of Exposure to Smoking in a Wastewater-based Epidemiology (WBE) Study in China

Phong K. Thai et al.

Physical and Mental Health Effects of Bushfire and Smoke in the Australian Capital Territory

Rachael M. Rodney et al.

Difference in Prevalence of Depression and Anxiety Among Young Rural and Urban Australians – A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

S. Kasturi, V. Oguoma

Integrating Citizen Science and Mosquito Monitoring to Improve Public Health

Larissa Braz Sousa et al.

Health-related Illness Among Small-scale Farmers in Vietnam and Associated Factors

Nu Quy Linh Tran et al.

Perceptions Versus Behaviour: An Early Exploration of Types of Preparedness Measures Related to Disaster and Extreme Events

Michael Carroll, Matt Dyer

Human-beneficial Butyrate-producing Bacteria Can Potentially be Supplied by Outdoor Environments

Joel E. Brame et al.

Average Ambient UVB and Osteoporosis in the Participants of the UK Biobank

Mafruha Mahmud et al.

Drought, Wellbeing and Adaptive Capacity in Drought-affected New South Wales (NSW)

Emma K. Austin et al.

NSW – Climate Change Vs Human Health

Sanjaya Dissanayake, Gerard Duck

Influence of Outdoor Temperatures Indoor and Occupants’ Health in Residential Houses in Vietnam

Hieu Bui Thi et al.

“Cyclone Babies”: Maternal Accounts of Pregnancy During Severe Cyclone Events in Queensland, Australia

Cynthia Parayiwa, Alison Behie

A Psychometric Evaluation and Revision of the Solastalgia Subscale from the Environmental Distress Scale

Bruce K. Christensen et al.

How Effectively Do Drought Indices Capture Health Outcomes in Rural Australia?

Emma K. Austin et al.

Short-term Health Impacts of the 2019-20 Australian Bushfires

David Wong et al.

Housing and Health Trajectories Post Natural Disaster Events

Ang Li, Rebecca Bentley

Recordings

Conference Day 1

Welcome and Opening Address

Plenary Session 1

Plenary Session 2

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Conference Day 1 Breakout

Conference Day 2

Welcome and Opening Address

Plenary Session 3

Plenary Session 4

Closing Session

Conference Day 2 Breakout

New South Wales

Western Australia

South Australia

Northern Territory

Australian Capital Territory

We acknowledge the HEAL (Healthy Environments And Lives) National Research Network, which receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council Special Initiative in Human Health and Environmental Change (Grant No. 2008937).

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