ASSC Sun Exposure Summit March 2021
The Australian Skin and Skin Cancer Research Centre (ASSC) hosted the Sun Exposure Summit, in March 2021.
The purpose of the Sun Exposure Summit was to discuss the harms and benefits of sun exposure, with the overall aim of considering whether current advice has the balance right and is able to be implemented in public health and clinical practice.
View Program Position StatementSupported by the Queensland Government, the summit took the form of a 2-day virtual conference, followed one week later by an invitation-only Policy Roundtable.
Video links:
| Session 1: Introduction to the Sun Exposure Summit | Rachel Neale |
| Current public health guidelines: implementation and understanding | Craig Sinclair |
| An overview of available guidelines / position statements | Christina Verma |
| The UVI and its relationship to UV dose | Richard McKenzie |
| Burden of skin cancer in Australia and NZ | Catherine Olsen |
| Sun exposure dose needed to cause skin cancer: is sunburn a necessary cause? | David Whiteman |
| Session 2: Clinical and Consumer Perspectives | Chaired by Craig Sinclair Adj. Associate Professor David Francis, Australasian College of Dermatologists Associate Professor Cherie Chiang, Australian and New Zealand Bone & Mineral Society Dr Solange Green, Skin Cancer Doctor Associate Professor Jane Smith, Royal Australasian College of General Practice Isha Sharma, Consumer Jessica Stafford, Consumer, Melanoma Patients Australia |
| Session 3: Vitamin D and health: fact and fiction | Robyn Lucas |
| Vitamin D and musculoskeletal health | Graeme Jones |
| Vitamin D and other health outcomes in adults | Rachel Neale |
| Vitamin D during pregnancy | Rebecca Mason |
| Vitamin D and diverse populations | Georgia Paxton |
| Vitamin D deficiency in Australia | Eleanor Dunlop |
| The SACN guidelines: modelling to prevent vitamin D deficiency in the UK | Ann Webb |
| Session 4: It’s not all about vitamin D | Monika Janda |
| Benefits of exposure to UV radiation through non-vitamin D pathways | Robyn Lucas |
| Sun exposure and the eyes: harms and benefits | David Mackey |
| Daylight exposure and other benefits | Anna Wirz-Justice |
| Session 5: Panel discussion Balancing the risks and benefits of sun exposure | Chaired by David Whiteman Adj. Associate Professor David Francis, Australasian College of Dermatologists Adj. Associate Professor Craig Sinclair, Cancer Council Victoria Professor Ann Webb, University of Manchester Professor Rebecca Mason, University of Sydney Associate Professor Georgia Paxton, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne |
On behalf of the Sun Exposure Summit Organising Committee:
Professor Rachel Neale, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Professor David Whiteman, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Professor Monika Janda, The University of Queensland
Professor Robyn Lucas, Australian National University
Professor Graeme Jones, University of Tasmania
Adjunct Associate Professor Craig Sinclair, Cancer Council Victoria
