Venue: Forum Lecture Theatre, Level 1, Arts West
Presenters: Associate Professor Sara Wills, Dr Bronwyn King
Bronwyn King has championed a world without tobacco, whose harrowing consequences are all too clear in her work as a cancer clinician. The catalyst was discovering in 2010 that her industry super fund was invested in tobacco companies. Bronwyn’s work has lead from the boardrooms of international pension funds and banking institutions to the child labour tobacco farms of Malawi.
Since establishing Tobacco Free Portfolios, Bronwyn has played an integral role in the decision of over 30 Australian Superannuation Funds to divest tobacco stocks worth approximately $2 billion dollars. This work inspired the Global Task Force for Tobacco Free Portfolios, a 2015 initiative of the Union for International Cancer Control, backed by the World Health Organisation.
Bronwyn will join Associate Professor Sara Wills, to discuss the strategies she has employed to affect change through cross sector collaboration by uniting health, government and finance sectors, and will present issues of global relevance and where solutions can be found.
Bronwyn is the Inaugural Joint Distinguished Fellow in Australian Studies facilitated by the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne and the Menzies Centre, Kings College, London
from
https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/8652-how-to-affect-change
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