Australia  

From 2018–20, the Jean Monnet Sustainable Development Goals Network Seminar Series will address each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Each seminar focuses on an individual Goal, offering an opportunity to explore the intent of the Goal, its targets, and some of the initiatives being undertaken to deliver on them. Each seminar will be accompanied a Policy Brief.

Sustainable Development Goal 3, Good Health and Well Being, aims to ‘ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages’. Amid rising recognition of the impact of climate change on health and an increasing international focus on measuring and defining ‘well-being,’ this seminar will address SDG3 through the lens of both the local and the global.

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If you’re unable to attend in person, join the live stream by clicking here and using Meeting ID 470-277-172.

Panellists

Chair: Dr Debbi Long, Senior Lecturer, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University

Debbi is a medical/health anthropologist with research and consultancy experience in a broad range of clinical, organisational, community and development health settings. She has undertaken fieldwork in Turkey, Swaziland/eSwatini and in a variety of contexts in the Australian health system.

Associate Professor Tilman Ruff, Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne

Tilman Ruff AM is Co-President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (Nobel Peace Prize 1985); and co-founder of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons.” A public health and infectious diseases physician, he serves on the WHO Western Pacific Hepatitis B Expert Resource Panel.

Alice Singo, PhD Candidate, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University

Alice is a nurse/midwife whose work in the area of child health in her home country, Malawi, has been followed by her undertaking a Masters of Public Health at Melbourne University. She has now begun her PhD at RMIT, looking at cross cultural aspects of infant and child mortality.

Naomi Francis, PhD Candidate, Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne

Naomi is an engineer and development consultant, working and researching in water, sanitation, hygiene and health in low-income settings. She is currently completing her PhD at the University of Melbourne’s Nossal Institute for Global Health, on water, sanitation and hygiene in remote villages in Timor-Leste. 

Dr Asiel Yair Adan Sanchez, Lecturer, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Monash University

Asiel is Mexican-Australian medical doctor, development practitioner, activist, poet and writer. They are currently undertaking specialist GP training, and teaching in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at Monash University. Their published research is in the areas of sexual health, mental health, young people and gender inclusion.

Light refreshments will be served.

Accessibility Information

An accessibility/mobility access map is available to download here (please scroll to the end of the webpage). RMIT’s Building 1 can be accessed via the adjacent Building 21. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you would like further information.

Presented by the EU Centre and Social and Global Studies Centre at RMIT University. The Jean Monnet SDG Network is co-funded by the Jean Monnet Activities Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. Project number: 587660-Epp-1-2017-1-AU-EPPJMO-NETWORK