A public forum on the ‘Health impacts of coal-fired power stations in NSW’ will be held on Wednesday, November 28 at Uniting Church Parish Hall.
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The forum will run from 6.30pm until 8pm with doors opening at 6pm.
Speakers at the forum will include Dr Ben Ewald, Dr James Whelan EJA and Dr Richard Stiles.
Residents of the Lithgow region have been invited to attend to discuss air pollution in Australia and its links to asthma, reduced birthweight, diabetes and premature death.
Speakers will also discuss how community health can be impacted in communities near power stations and up to 200 kilometres away.
Environmental Justice Australia (EJA) recently commissioned a report into the health impacts of air pollution from NSW power stations.
The findings of the report will be delivered by the author Dr Ben Ewald, an epidemiologist and air pollution expert, at the public forum.
This event is supported by the Lithgow Environment Group and the Nature Conservation Council of NSW.
The event will be hosted by Environmental Justice Australia, Doctors for the Environment Australia, Nature Conservation Council of NSW and Lithgow Environment Group.
Speaker information
Dr Ben Ewald
Dr Ewald is a GP in Newcastle and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle School of Medicine and Public Health.
Dr Ewald teaches in the epidemiology Masters program at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Newcastle and coordinates the communicable disease epidemiology and research protocol design subjects as well as teaching in the undergraduate medical course.
He has a role in public health advocacy on issues of physical activity and health, and interpreting scholarship on environmental risks to health.
Dr James Whelan
Dr Whelan is a researcher for Environmental Justice Australia.
He has been a researcher and public interest advocate for air pollution control for more than 20 years.
He contributed to the development of Australia’s first national air pollution standards and the National Pollutant Inventory and has been a member of advisory groups overseeing air pollution control strategies and regulation in NSW and Queensland.
Dr Richard Stiles
Dr Stiles trained as a GP/GP surgeon through the Australian Rural GP Training pathway.
The aim of this is to be able to deliver high quality medical services to non-metropolitan people in the localities where they live, at a level commensurate with national standards.
He has had a long association with rural medical issues, having participated in a variety of rural medical representative bodies.
