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Images of single-use face masks have become synonymous with the COVID-19 pandemic, sparking conversations about the sustainability of our healthcare systems. In this episode, host Dr Renee Beale is joined by Dr Rebecca Patrick and Dr Mike Forrester from the Institute for Health Transformation (IHT) to explore just how sustainable our current healthcare system is, and what can be done to improve it for the health of our future generations.
Rebecca is an executive member of IHT's Determinants
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of Health team where her research focus is climate change and health as well as sustainable healthcare, and Director of Deakin University’s Sustainable Healthcare Network.
Mike is a consultant paediatrician at Barwon Health, Vic Chair of Doctors for the Environment Australia, Clinical Lead of the Deakin Sustainable Healthcare Network and Senior Research Fellow at IHT.
The Institute for Health Transformation at Deakin University is making better health and wellbeing easier for everyone to achieve. Follow us on Twitter @ IHT_Deakin or visit our website iht.deakin.edu.au to stay up to date with some of Australia’s leading health researchers.
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