Description
A position statement setting out how health departments, ambulance services and research partners should share heat related presentation and dispatch data during declared heatwaves. It covers minimum aggregation levels, turnaround expectations while an event is running, de-identification practice and the standing approvals that need to be in place before summer. Issued to speed up heat health warning evaluation after the January 2024 Adelaide and Melbourne heat episodes.
Contributor
Research Director at the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience, leading programs on evidence-based emergency management policy, community resilience frameworks and the translation of research into operational practice.
Principal Investigator
Environmental health researcher focused on heat related ambulance dispatch and emergency presentations. Works with state health departments to evaluate heat health warnings and set data sharing arrangements before each summer. Based at University of Melbourne.