We are delighted to announce the 2025 Climate Health and Sustainable Healthcare conference in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington.
Date and time: Monday 28 July (starting at 10am) and Tuesday 29 July 2025 (starting at 9am)
Venue: Nordmeyer Theatre, University of Otago Wellington, 23a Mein Street, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, with HUB spaces for a limited number of participants available in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Ōtautahi Christchurch and Ōtepoti Dunedin, and an option to attend online.
Conference overview
Keynotes include international leaders in climate justice, climate health and sustainable healthcare, including:
- Associate Professor Rhys Jones (Ngāti Kahungunu), Te Kupenga Hauora Māori, Waipapa Taumata Rau
- Azeeza Rangunwala, Medical Scientist, Global Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity, GroundWork, South Africa
- Associate Professor Hōri Laking (Te Whakatōhea), Waipapa Taumata Rau and Manu Caddie (Ngāti Pūkenga, Ngāti Hauā), Hikurangi Enterprises
- Donna Burns, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association
- Vicktoria Blake, Te Whatu Ora Principal Advisor Climate Risk and Resilience
The conference will be an action-oriented sharing of diverse research and practice knowledges about climate change, health and sustainable healthcare in Aotearoa and beyond, centralising mātauranga Māori and Indigenous knowledges.
We particularly welcome tangata whenua contributions, as well as Pacific and other Indigenous voices. Areas of relevance to the conference include:
- Effects of climate change on health and healthcare
- Healthy, equitable, Tiriti-based climate change adaptation
- Delivering high quality sustainable and equitable healthcare within planetary boundaries
- Climate policy grounded in mātauranga Māori, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and health equity
- Climate change and disabled people
- Climate change and mental health and wellbeing
- Health-sector and health professional action in the current context
Our aim is to have delegates leave the conference feeling locally, nationally and regionally connected, up to date with research knowledge and innovative clinical and public health practice, and ready to integrate new ways of thinking and working for sustainable and equitable health outcomes.
Presentation proposals
The call for presentations is now closed.
More information
Acknowedgement of conference sponsors, and information about conference speakers and the programme to follow as details are finalised.