News and events

Past events

2023-2024 Summit series

The first instalment of our Heat and Health Research Centre Summit Series focused on the impacts of extreme heat on maternal and child health. Our guest speakers explored the issue of heat exposure during the earliest stages of life including pregnancy, infancy, and childhood.

Watch the recording from the past conference.

2023 MJA-Lancet Countdown report

The Heat and Health Research Centre hosted the launch event for the 2023 report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: sustainability needed in Australia's health care sector.

Watch the recording from the past conference.

Highlights

Expecting extremes (Science)
Co-Led by Professor Adrienne Gordon (Central Clinical School) and Professor Ollie Jay, and supported by Wellcome, HHRC members are leading a multi-country prospective pregnancy cohort field study in India and Bangladesh, and a laboratory-based study in the Thermal Ergonomics Laboratory Climate Chamber to investigate extreme heat and maternal and child health.

BBC Storyworks collaboration with HHRC
In the BBC StoryWorks series The Climate and Us, Professor Ollie Jay discusses the increasing concern of extreme heat and heatwaves on human health, and how researchers at the Heat and Health Research Centre are investigating sustainable and evidenced-based solutions to keep cool and stay safe..

Simple strategies to reduce cardiac strain in older adults in extreme heat (New England Journal of Medicine)
This article reports original research data demonstrating the efficacy of different low-resource cooling strategies for older adults with and without coronary artery disease during different types of heatwaves. This is the first output from a large NHMRC-funded study and shows what should and definitely should not be used in hot-humid and very hot-dry heatwaves. First author is Dr Georgia Chaseling and co-senior authors are A/Prof Daniel Gagnon (Montreal Heart Institute) and Professor Ollie Jay.

Pop-up mobile cooling hubs
Led by Dr. Timothy English, the Homelessness and Heat Emergency Activation Team (HHEATeam) have created Australia's first mobile cooling hub. This is a community initiative to keep individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness seek help and stay safe during extreme heat events. Our HeatWatch tool, developed by Dr Federico Tartarini, is used to inform the team when to implement the pop-up cooling hubs.

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