enHealth
Environmental Health Committee (enHealth)
The Environmental Health Committee (enHealth) is a subcommittee of the Australian Health Protection Committee (AHPC).
Under its terms of reference enHealth has responsibility for providing nationally agreed health policy advice, implementation of the National Environmental Health Strategy, consultation with key players, and the development and coordination of research, information and practical resources on environmental health matters at a national level. The advice development process is strongly based on collaboration and consultation. The enHealth membership includes representatives from Commonwealth, State and Territory health departments; the New Zealand Ministry of Health; the National Health and Medical Research Council; Choice; the Australian Institute of Environmental Health; the Australian Local Government Association; the Commonwealth Department of Environment and Water Resources; the Public Health Association of Australia and the Deputy Chair (who must be Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander) of the enHealth Indigenous Environmental Health Working Group.
enHealth Terms of Reference
The Environmental Health Committee (enHealth), under the guidance of the Australian Health Protection Committee (AHPC) and with reference to The National Environmental Health Strategy, will:1. provide nationally agreed environmental health policy advice, based on the best available evidence and expertise, to the Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council (AHMAC) through the AHPC;
2. coordinate implementation of nationally agreed environmental health policies and approaches;
3. provide environmental health expertise and support for AHPC’s emergency management role;
4. under arrangements to be agreed between AHMAC and the Environment Protection and Heritage Standing Committee (EPHSC), keep the AHPC and AHMAC informed of developments in environmental policy with significant health implications and provide expert, and where nationally agreed, health advice in environmental policy forums;
5. consult with consumers and other stakeholders as appropriate in developing environmental health policy advice and implementing environmental health policies;
6. contribute, through the Commonwealth, to international collaboration on environmental health issues;
7. coordinate research, share information and develop practical environmental health resources, including through expert and/or nationally agreed publications as guided by the AHPC.
Membership
Chair
Ms Jan Bowman - Assistant Director, Environmental Health, Victorian Department of Human ServicesDeputy Chair
Dr Kevin Buckett - Director, Public Health, South Australian Department of HealthJurisdictional Representatives
Commonwealth, Department of Health and Ageing
Mr Simon Cotterell - Assistant Secretary, Health Protection Policy Branch, Office of Health Protection Department of Health and AgeingTop of pageNorthern Territory
Mr Xavier Schobben – Director, Environmental Health, Northern Territory Department of Health and Community ServicesSouth Australia
Dr Kevin Buckett – Director, Public Health, Department of HealthVictoria
Ms Jan Bowman - Assistant Director, Environmental Health, Department of Human ServicesAustralian Capital Territory
Ms Melissa Langhorne – Director, Environmental Health, ACT HealthNew South Wales
Dr Wayne Smith - Director, Environmental Health Branch, New South Wales (NSW) Department of HealthQueensland
Ms Sophie Dwyer – Senior Director, Environmental Health Unit, Queensland HealthTasmania
Mr Stuart Heggie – State Manager, Environmental Health, Public and Environmental Health Service, Department of Health and Human ServicesWestern Australia
Mr Jim Dodds – Director, Environmental Health Directorate, Department of Health WANew Zealand
Mr Paul Prendergast – Principal Public Health Engineer, Public Health Directorate, New Zealand Ministry of HealthNon-jurisdictional Representatives
Choice
Professor Ian Lowe - Professor, School of Science, Griffith UniversityAustralian Institute of Environmental Health
Mr Jim Smith - National PresidentAustralian Local Government Association
Mr John Pritchard – Policy ManagerDepartment of the Environment and Water Resources
Ms Mary Harwood – First Assistant Secretary, The Environment Quality DivisionPublic Health Association of Australia
Dr Elizabeth Hanna – Convenor, Environmental HealthNational Health and Medical Research Council
Dr Greg Ash – Acting Executive Director, Integration and Strategic ProjectsDeputy Chair of the Working Group for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Environmental Health
- TBAEnvironment Protection and Heritage Standing Committee
- TBAWorking Groups
Two working groups provide enHealth with coordinated advice on human health issues related to air quality and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander environmental health.enHealth Air Working Group Terms of Reference
The Air Working Group, under the guidance of enHealth and with reference to The National Environmental Health Strategy will:enHealth Working Group on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Environmental Health Terms of Reference
The enHealth Working Group on Aboriginal and Torres Strait lslander Environmental Health provides coordinated advice to enHealth and other key stakeholders on national Indigenous environmental health policies and associated environmental health issues. Its terms of reference are:1. To advise enHealth on Indigenous environmental health issues;
2. To support the review and development of national Indigenous environmental health policy;
3. To act as a focal expert group for enHealth in promoting Indigenous environmental health with relevant stakeholders;
4. Provide input and direction into the Indigenous environmental health conference/workshops and other mainstream conferences relating to environmental health.
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