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Making cities liveable*

The 2010 Healthy Cities Conference, Making Cities Liveable, will be held at Stamford
Plaza Brisbane from 12 to 13 July. It will be held over two days, with optional tours and workshops on 14 July.

The conference will be a platform for government and industry sector professionals to discuss causes, effects and solutions that relate to population health, sustainability, natural resource management, transport, climate change, waste use technologies, city design and much more. 

Attendees and presenters will examine the prerequisites for a ‘Healthy City’ and discuss the roadmap to tomorrow.

The conference program will feature distinguished keynote presenters along with three concurrent sessions that will offer participants the opportunity to present latest research and topics of interest. 

Confirmed keynote presenters include:

  • Councillor Krista Adams, Deputy Chair, Neighbourhood
    Planning and Development Assessment at Brisbane City Council
  • Director General John Bradley, Department of
    Environment and Resource Management
  • Professor Mike Daube, President, Public Health
    Association of Australia
  • Gilbert Rochecouste, Managing Director of Village Well
  • Rupert Posner, Director of The Climate Group
  • Mike Ritchie, National Vice President, Waste
    Management Association of Australia
  • Caroline Stalker, Director, Architectus.

Details on keynote presenters and papers under consideration are available on the conference website and registration is now open at www.healthycities.com.au

*Copy supplied by Healthy Cities 2010

 

 

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