Where
Parliament House, Canberra and online

When
9:30am - 4:30pm AEDT, Thursday 6th November, 2025

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Program

TimeWhatLocation
9:30amRegistrations open Foyer
Session 1 – Why improving IAQ matters (Moderated by Plum Stone)
10:00am

Christabelle Adjoyan
Burnet Institute
Acknowledgement of Country and Brief Introduction

Plum Stone
The Safer Air Project
Introduction

Assistant Minister Rebecca White MP
Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care, Indigenous Health and for Women

Senator Ananda-Rajah
Co-Chairs Parliamentary Friends of Indoor Air Quality

Dr Amanda Cohn MLC
NSW Greens

Prof Michael Kidd AO
Chief Medical Officer

Glen Ramos
Lived experience perspective

Dr Bronwyn King AO
Burnet Institute
Clinician’s perspective

A/Prof Suman Majumdar
Burnet Institute
Clinician’s perspective

Lived experience panel discussion
Carolyn Dews
Immune Deficiencies Foundation Australia

Genevieve Handley
CF Together

Katherine Marshall
Inclusive Rainbow Voices

Glen Ramos
Lived experience representative

Anne Wilson
Emerge

Theatre and online
12:00pm – 1:00pmLunch Foyer
Session 2 – Translating science into policy (Moderated by Dr Claire Bird)
1:00pm

Dr Claire Bird
AIRAH
Welcome to session

Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska
THRIVE
State of Indoor Air and Academy Report

Anna-Maria Arabia
Australian Academy of Sciences
Science into policy

Liam O’Brien
ACTU
Role of workplace health and safety

Q&A: Translating science into policy
Anna-Maria Arabia
Australian Academy of Sciences

A/Prof Suman Majumdar
Burnet Institute

Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska
THRIVE

Liam O’Brien
ACTU

A/Prof Robyn Schofield
University of Melbourne

Theatre and online
2:30pm – 3:00pm Afternoon teaFoyer
Session 3 – Making indoor air safer for everyone to breathe (Moderated by Mark Vender)
3:00pm

Mark Vender
AIRAH
Welcome to session

Prof Christhina Candido
SHE Lab
Productivity benefits

Jack Noonan
International WELL Building Institute
Investing in health pays back report

Panel discussion and Q&A:
Nic Burt
FMA

Jorge Chapa
GBCA

Ben Gill
Plasma Shield

Melinda Mandla
JLL

Ron Pulido
NABERS

Plum Stone
The Safer Air Project
Event close

Theatre and online
4:30pmEvent concludesTheatre and online

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