Senior Advisor, Climate Risk & Net Zero Unit, NSW Ministry of Health; Australia

Dr Kate Charlesworth is a public health physician in Sydney and leads the Climate Risk & Net Zero Unit at NSW Health. Kate initially worked as a hospital doctor in Perth and Sydney, before undertaking much of her public health medicine training in the UK. In England, she worked in the world-leading Greener NHS program, the leading healthcare decarbonisation program in the world. Kate has worked in sustainability roles across NSW Health since 2018 and also has a PhD in low-carbon healthcare