I'm Tany - a junior doctor, Wattle Fellow, Victorian Doctors for the Environment committee member, Vice President and HMO Sustainability Officer at my health service. I'm invested in utilising creative means to educate and motivate climate action by building planetary health consciousness - a concept which recognises the vital interconnectedness between human health and the natural systems that support us.

As a doctor, fine artist and environmentalist, I bring a strong foundation in advocacy, cross-disciplinary collaboration and science communication. Community building has been a keey part of my journey, and working closely with organisations including Doctors for the Environment Victoria, Medical Pantry and CLIMARTE has lent me a collaborative leadership style. In my theory of change, I am committed to systems improvement through piloting projects which synergise diverse craft groups and employs the medical humanities to deliver compassionate, safe, holistic patient care.

As an oil painter and multimedia artist, I aim to take an interdisciplinary, medical humanities approach to explore how storytelling is a powerful tool for creating sustainable change. As alumna of The University of Melbourne Medical school, my valedictory speech culminated in a call for action; one for us to place faith in one another’s humanity and to work collectively toward a healthier planet. Since then, I have studied Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) via Harvard Medical School to investigate the utility of art as a health and climate advocacy tool. More specifically, I believe art and storytelling can promote culturally sensitive care, build empathy, observation skills, climate resilient systems and a cruicial tolerance for ambiguity. Clinically, my areas of interest include anaesthesiology and critical care, with special interests in sustainable healthcare, planetary health and Artivism.

Ultimately, I’m passionate about using creative communication to explore how junior doctors, multidisciplinary teams, educators and individuals can lead meaningful change in and beyond their workplaces to advocate for a sustainable, climate-resilient healthcare system.

My advocacy art exhibition and curatorial debut, Do No Harm: Reflections on Healthcare, opened to public late October 2025 at No Vacancy Gallery in Melbourne’s CBD. The Virtual Gallery is available here.