Exiting the consumptogenic system
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024, 10:00 am - 11:30 am
- Location: Room 7.15 | Ingkarni Wardli
- Cost: Free
- More information:
- Email: strettoninstitute@adelaide.edu.au
Stretton Health Equity in conjunction with the Environment Institute invite you to attend the seminarExiting the consumptogenic systemwith guest speakerProfessor Sharon Friel, Ӱֱn National Ӱֱ.Professor Friel's presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with Professor Melissa Nursey-Bray,facilitated by Professor Fran Baum.
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 Ӱֱn Research Centre for Health Equity (ARCHE) at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Ӱֱn National Ӱֱ. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Ӱֱ and the Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. Previously, she was Director of RegNet from 2014-2019, and Head of the Scientific Secretariat (Ӱֱ 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’s 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 “Climate Change and the People’s Health” highlights the importance of addressing the global consumptogenic system.