HEALTH, SUSTAINABILITY, NRM, CLIMATE: Healthy Cities Conference 2009, Gold Coast 25-27 March 2009

The Healthy Cities Conference will be a platform for Government and Industry sector professionals to consider health, sustainability, natural resource management, climate change and the implications for public policy. Participants will also examine issues that effect Federal, State and Local Government agencies. The future will present some exciting challenges , what do we need to meet these challenges and how will it effect the way we live and work?

The Conference will feature keynote presentations along with four concurrent streams, each designed to address the Conference themes:

• Managing population and economic growth – what is sustainable?
• Climate Change Adaptation
• Managing Communicable Disease Outbreaks – Health Security
• Population Health Management – immunisation, bio security, food safety and epidemic control
• Managing Natural Resources
• City Design – designing changes to urban life to encourage Physical Activity, Healthy Cities
• Disaster Management – public welfare – recovery and rebuild
• Managing Legislation and Policy