Richard Yin is a retired General Practitioner and healthcare sustainability advocate. He has spent over 15 years in the climate, health and advocacy space working both at a national and state level. He brings a deep understanding of the Australian climate advocacy landscape to the CCWA board.
He has previously served as a Board Director for Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) (2018-2022) including as Secretary and on the steering committee for their organisational review process in 2019. He has been a member of the Australian College of General Practitioners Climate and Environmental Medicine Specific Interest Group and on the World Organization of Family Doctors Working Party on Planetary Health in 2023 where he contributed to their Planetary Health Equitable and Sustainable Events Policy and their Environment Statement to Protect Health by committing to fossil fuel non-proliferation and climate action.
He was the lead author, Sustainable general practice (2023, Australian Journal of General Practice), contributor to Environmentally Sustainable Primary care (2025, Edited by Matt Sawyer, Mike Tomson). He has recently completed his Advanced Leadership for Community Chairs as part of the Institute of Community Directors Australia.
When not busy with his duties as chair, Richard enjoys time in nature and contributing to his local community as a mindfulness teacher. He recently attended The Way Out is In: Climate and Nature Leaders Retreat – Asia Pacific 2026 with Christiana Figueres and the monks and nuns of Plum Village. With its focus on mindful leadership, he is keen to bring some of this perspective to the WA climate movement.