DAY 1: 

Public Health

The effects of extreme temperatures and of air and water quality on human health, and impacts on healthcare systems

27 November 2023

• Prof. Karin Leder, Head, Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

Confirmed Speakers:

• Prof. Yuming Guo, Head, Monash Climate, Air Quality Research (CARE) Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

• Prof. Jonathan Patz, Director, Planetary Health Scholars Program, School of Medicine & Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Prof. Tin Tin Su, Director, South East Asia Community Observatory (SEACO), Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia 

• Prof. Claire Walsh, Deputy Head Water Group, School of Engineering, Newcastle University

• Prof. Till Barninghausen, Director, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Universitats Klinikum Heidelberg

• TBC, Monash University Malaysia

DAY 2: 

Climate Microbiology

Promoting ecosystem services and controlling pathogens in a changing world 

28 November 2023

• Prof. Chris Greening, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute

Confirmed Speakers:

• Prof. Jill Banfield, Department of Enviornmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California Berkley

• Prof. Dena Lyras, Deputy Director, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute

• Prof. Greg Challis, Co-Director, Monash Warwick Alliance AMR training program in emerging superbug threats

• Prof. Kenneth Timmis, Institut fur Mikrobiologie, Technische Universitat Braunschweig

• Dr. Rebekah Henry, Senior Research Fellow, Planetary Health Division, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

• Prof. Donato Giovannelli, Professor of Microbiology at the Department of Biology of the University of Naples Federico II

DAY 3: 

Neuroscience and Healthy Ageing

New technologies for the benefit of our ageing society

29 November 2023

• Prof. Mark Bellgrove, Senior Director of Research, School of Psychological Sciences and Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University

Confirmed Speakers:

• Prof. Alexander Thiele, Biosciences Institute, School of Psychology, Newcastle University

• Dr. Adrián Ponce-Alvarez, Department of Mathematics, Dynamical Systems Group, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain

• Prof. Christoph Hagemeyer, Director, Monash Biomedical Imaging

• Dr. Maureen Hagan, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University

• Dr. Daniel Erskine, Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research, Newcastle University

• Prof. Velandai Srikanth, Director, National Centre for Healthy Ageing

• Prof. Rachel Cooper, McArdle Chair in Ageing, NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre, Newcastle University

• Prof. Matthew Prina, Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University

• Dr Yu-Tzu Wu, Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University

• A/Prof Yen Ying Lim, Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University

• Dr. Alison Carver, National Centre for Healthy Ageing