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Dr Lai Heng Foong
Professional Bio
Dr Foong is a FACEM based in Sydney who has a passion for Public Health and Disaster preparedness including COVID-19 preparedness, Climate change and health impacts, Indigenous Health and the social determinants of health. She is currently the Chair of the Public Health and Disaster Committee of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM), and a member of the Indigenous Health Committee. She is the Chair of the Public and Environmental Health Special Interest Group of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM).
Dr Foong has been active in Climate Advocacy for the last few years. She led ACEM’s effort to declare a Climate Emergency during the ASM in Hobart in 2019, divestment from Fossil fuels in college investments and banking. She was a key contributor for the Environmental Strategy and Environmental Action Plan for ACEM. She was instrumental in creating the Sustainable Emergency Medicine and Climate Advocacy Network (SEMCAN) which hopes to embed sustainability in all Emergency Departments (ED) in Australasia.
She is a member of the Multi College Climate Change and Health Project of the Royal Australasian College for Physicians (RACP). She has helped planned Climate Action sessions for ACEM’s Annual Scientific Meetings and run Climate Communication workshops for her college. Through the Doctors for the Environment (DEA) she has been involved in multi-college collaboration and teaching and working on Climate Action at various levels of society. She has also collaborated with the Royal College for Emergency Medicine (RCEM), International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM) on climate advocacy and collaborated with other climate organisations e.g. Climate Emergency Network, . She has co-authored a chapter on Emergency Medicine in a Climate Crisis in the Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Health System Sustainability 2024, a chapter on Public Health in Cameron’s Textbook of Adult Emergency Medicine 2024, and a chapter on Children in a Disaster Response, Cameron’s Textbook of Paediatric Emergency Medicine in 2023.
She is a mother to two children, two cats and a dog, all of whom she hopes will inherit a safer and more sustainable future.
Dr Foong has been active in Climate Advocacy for the last few years. She led ACEM’s effort to declare a Climate Emergency during the ASM in Hobart in 2019, divestment from Fossil fuels in college investments and banking. She was a key contributor for the Environmental Strategy and Environmental Action Plan for ACEM. She was instrumental in creating the Sustainable Emergency Medicine and Climate Advocacy Network (SEMCAN) which hopes to embed sustainability in all Emergency Departments (ED) in Australasia.
She is a member of the Multi College Climate Change and Health Project of the Royal Australasian College for Physicians (RACP). She has helped planned Climate Action sessions for ACEM’s Annual Scientific Meetings and run Climate Communication workshops for her college. Through the Doctors for the Environment (DEA) she has been involved in multi-college collaboration and teaching and working on Climate Action at various levels of society. She has also collaborated with the Royal College for Emergency Medicine (RCEM), International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM) on climate advocacy and collaborated with other climate organisations e.g. Climate Emergency Network, . She has co-authored a chapter on Emergency Medicine in a Climate Crisis in the Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Health System Sustainability 2024, a chapter on Public Health in Cameron’s Textbook of Adult Emergency Medicine 2024, and a chapter on Children in a Disaster Response, Cameron’s Textbook of Paediatric Emergency Medicine in 2023.
She is a mother to two children, two cats and a dog, all of whom she hopes will inherit a safer and more sustainable future.