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Dr Garry Egger (Professor; Lifestyle Medicine and Applied Health Promotion, Southern Cross University, Australia)

An open letter to politicians on climate change and obesity

At the National Lifestyle Medicine Conference in Sydney, Dr Garry Egger read out an open letter to politicians about the need for action on the interrelated threat of obesity and climate change.

The letter is co-signed by 2003 Australian of the Year Fiona Stanley who is Professor of Medicine at the University of WA, along with former AMA president Professor Kerryn Phelps (University of Sydney), obesity expert Professor Boyd Swinburn (Deakin University) and Southern Cross University's Adjunct Professor of Health Sciences Garry Egger. A further 300 medical and health practitioners including 40 professors of medicine and health sciences endorsed the letter released on March 15, 2010 in the Medical Journal of Australia.

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