VICDOC Summer 2023 - Magazine - Page 14
PROF
EUGENIE KAYAK
FANZCA MBBS MSC MPH
Eugenie is the Enterprise Professor in Sustainable
Healthcare at the Melbourne Medical School and a
consultant anaesthetist in public and private practice.
For over a decade Eugenie has worked with Doctors
for the Environment Australia, her own specialty, the
AMA, government and the wider medical profession
to influence policy and address the health impacts of
climate change and environmental degradation.
She is a member of the Australian Chief Medical Officer
Advisory Group for the development of Australia’s
National Health and Climate Strategy, Deputy Director
of The University of Melbourne Climate CATCH
(Collaborative Action for Transformative Change in
Health and Healthcare) Lab, Co-Convenor of National
Sustainable Health Care for DEA, Deputy Chair of ANZCA’s
Environment Sustainability Network, and a member
of the Federal AMA’s Public Health Committee.
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