The HEAL Network is hosting its annual conference from 26-28 November 2024, building on the resounding success of its first three conferences in 2021, 2022 and 2023. HEAL 2024, with the theme of ‘Healing with Country for a Sustainable Future for Everyone’, will provide a dynamic, inclusive and decentralised platform for diverse research, policy and practice communities within the network to come together sharing knowledge, evidence and ideas. Over three days, HEAL 2024 will deliver opportunities to discuss the leading health, climate and environmental challenges we face in Australia, the Asia-Pacific region and internationally. We will discuss how the HEAL Network is addressing these challenges, shaping innovative research to support Australia’s first National Health and Climate Strategy, and helping to implement new practices such as more sustainable healthcare and climate-resilient communities.   In line with HEAL’s core commitment to supporting and elevating Australian First Nations leadership and knowledges of Healing with Country, we will be highlighting inspiring case studies from communities who are on the frontlines of climate and environmental change. The hybrid conference will be delivered online nationally and internationally, and at in-person at eight regional nodes across Australia, providing multiple avenues for delegates to participate and connect with each other.      
Prof Sotiris Vardoulakis & A/Prof Veronica Matthews HEAL 2024 Conference Co-Chairs
 

Conference Overview


Abstract Submission

Abstract submissions are now open for the HEAL 2024 Conference - Healing with Country for a Sustainable Future for Everyone.

We are inviting abstracts for e-posters or oral presentations addressing any of the themes of the conference below.

 

Abstracts will be considered for Best Early and Middle Career Researcher (EMCR) Presentation and Best Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander Project Awards.

Winners will be announced during the Conference Awards Session on Thursday 28 November 2024.

 

 

Key Dates

Deadline for Abstract Submission

11.59PM AEST 22 September 2024

 

Abstract Notification

Week starting 14 October 2024

 

Abstract Acceptance

23 October 2024

 

 

Submission Requirements

300 words (maximum)

Abstract must be linked to a HEAL Conference theme

 

Please submit your abstract using the portal below.


  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and knowledge translation for building resilience to environmental change
  • Health system resilience to climate change and sustainability
  • Bushfires, air pollution, and their impact on physical, mental, and community health
  • Extreme heat, health impacts, and adaptation measures
  • Food, soil and water safety and security in a changing environment
  • Clean energy, energy security and household air pollution
  • Biosecurity, and emerging infections in the context of environmental change
  • Urban health, built environment and nature based solutions
  • Rural and remote health and climate-related disasters
  • At-risk populations, early life effects and life-course solutions
  • Data and decision support systems for environmental health applications
  • Science communication, citizen science, and risk perception
  • Climate change and mental health and wellbeing
  • Clean energy solutions for healthy environments and lives
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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