The Climate and Health Alliance has brought together a powerful coalition from across the health community to call on the Australian Government to champion a bid for an Australia and the Pacific co-hosted COP31 that puts people and health at the heart of climate action, and push for a COP31 that safeguards health, strengthens partnerships and secures a healthy future for people and planet. 

At launch, the Open Letter has 100 signatories comprised 41 health organisations and 59 individuals from across the health community.

The Open Letter 'United for climate and health: A healthy vision for a COP31 in Australia and the Pacific' can be read in full here.

If you or your organisation wish to sign onto the open letter, you can do so here.

Organisational signatories

Individual signatories

• Associate Professor Ying Zhang, Chair of Sustainability, Climate and Health Collaboration at the University of Sydney
• Michelle Kosonen, Registered nurse
• Lin Oke OAM, President of CAHA
• Associate Professor Liz Hanna, Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions, ANU
• Dr Gerry Santos, Paediatric Physician
• Sadé Franklin, Registered Nurse
• Dr Catherine Pendrey, General Practitioner & Medical Educator
• Philomena Colagiuri, Lancet Countdown Fellow
• Rosalie Schultz, Senior Medical Officer
• Sue Bray, Occupational Therapist
• Lennert Veerman, Professor of Public Health
• Liza Barbour, Senior Lecturer
• Professor Lynne Madden, Professor of Population and Planetary Health
• Adjunct Professor Peter Sainsbury
• Angie Bone, Board member
• Dr George Crisp, General Practitioner
• Dr Emma Croager, Public Health Manager
• Dr. Belinda Rowland
• Aletha Ward, Senior Research Fellow
• Michael Loftus, Physician
• Toby Cumming, Research Fellow
• David Sweeting, Manager (Strategy and Operations) Health and Climate Initiative
• Christine Walker
• Caillin Dunsford, Research Assistant
• Dr Sue Sherratt, Speech-language pathologist and audiologist - research
• Tim Read, Victorian MP for Brunswick
• Roslyn Morgan, Environmental Health Officer and Registered Nurse
• Eunmaro Ju, Anaesthetist
• Ming Xin Guo, Research assistant of Public Health
• Dr Jill Sewell, Paediatrician
• Dr Catrina Sturmberg, Doctor
• Dr Angela Fraser, Emergency physician
• Dr Annie Whybourne, Paediatrician
• Dr Paul Bauert, Paediatrician
• Dr Louise Woodward, Paediatrician
• Dr Scott Farenden, Emergency Specialist
• Eugenie Kayak, Enterprise Professor, Sustainable Healthcare
• Dr Mike Forrester, Paediatrician
• Paula Myott, Director Strategic Policy & Impact
• Lucy Westerman, NCD Prevention Specialist
• Professor Hilary Bambrick, Director of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ANU
• Dr Michael Brydon, Paediatrician
• John Wakerman, Emeritus Professor
• Professor Alexandra Barratt, Professor of Public Health
• Rowena Ivers, Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, UOW
• Adjunct Professor Annie Whybourne, Paediatrician
• Dr Emma Wawn, Emergency physician
• Professor Melissa Haswell, Professor of Health, Safety and Environment
• Elaine Correia Moll, Registered Nurse
• Hannah Kampos-Green, Communications and Advocacy trainee
• Lai Heng Foong, Emergency Medicine Specialist
• Julia Clark, Registered Nurse
• Olivia Hedge, Biomedicine student
• Dr Kate Gazzard, Paediatric emergency doctor
• Dr Cameron Shaw, Neurologist & Associate Professor
• Dr Jenny Ching-Min Huang, General Practitioner
• Dr Katherine Simson, Doctor
• Dr Cas Woinarski, Anaesthetist
• Dr Simon Judkins, Doctor